05-30-2017, 10:53 AM
The first wave of Adaptive youth (Andrew Jackson, William McKinley, Paul Newman) start coming of age as the Crisis is practically over or shortly afterward. They typically emerge as conformists following the lead of a Hero generation. If America in the late 2020s or early 2030s looks like Franco's Spain, then they will mostly fit into the Christian and Corporate State, pretending to love the repression, hierarchy, and inequality as patriotic expressions. If America should be dissolved and partitioned like Germany was after World War II, then they will consider, as is then expected, what happened in the recent past to be discredited and guarded against. If America emerges triumphant, better than ever, then they will endorse what makes America better than ever.
Because nobody can predict how the Crisis will turn out, we cannot yet predict how Homeland kids will turn out. Just think of all those kids in Hitlerjugend and Bund deutscher Maedel who had been born in the late 1920s who remained the good little Nazis that Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels wanted them to be. Whoops!
Because nobody can predict how the Crisis will turn out, we cannot yet predict how Homeland kids will turn out. Just think of all those kids in Hitlerjugend and Bund deutscher Maedel who had been born in the late 1920s who remained the good little Nazis that Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels wanted them to be. Whoops!
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.