06-20-2016, 10:23 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-20-2016, 10:32 AM by Eric the Green.)
What I wonder about is what my minister referred to yesterday. She is an early core boomer, and she said there had been an awakening (referring to the 2T without being date-specific or knowing the generations/turnings theory). In that awakening child rearing changed from what my friend said was the "mean streak" that all male parents seemed to have before, and how people used to be disciplined with violence at home and school but no longer are. Young men in our culture before the awakening were considered to be by nature always in training for war, at least until the peace movement of the sixties, and so as children had to be taught and disciplined that way. Xers like Classic Xer and Millennials like Cynic Hero still retain this view of the world. Is this awakening during the 2T still changing how children are raised in the USA, and even the world? If so, wouldn't that affect to some degree what the generation archetypes are like?
As Boomers and then Xers came of age and became parents, this meanness, violence and strict approach lessened. With Gen Xer children, the permissiveness often became neglect. I noticed that many Boomers became easy-going flower children to one degree or another during the 2T, who believed and to some extent practiced a more-loving approach to people and children. At that time I experienced them as friendly, and that they considered themselves part of a cultural wave or movement as described by John Lennon.
Gen Xers I know are usually reasonably friendly, but they are often skin-heads rather than long-hairs, and often have a competitive attitude of aggressive survivalism. They sometimes tend to look upon the world as an unfriendly place against which you have to defend yourself by being mean if necessary, and they might have a redoubtable, scowling or resigned and pessimistic kind of look. And in the 3T, Boomers reverted to the arrogance and haughtiness of their 1T childhood and became more rigid in their attitudes.
So, did this awakening my minister described take hold, lasting beyond the 2T? To what extent? Violence at least is frowned on, I think, but were parents in the 3T and today mean and strict to their children? Does the same mean streak continue among American men today, in the wake of the Awakening, and to what extent has it changed? How has child abuse contributed to the old days and the new?
We know from many reports that boomers are and were often very protective helicopter parents who sheltered their millie and homie children from the perceived dangers of the world. The dangers abated, but the attitude persists among Xer parents today. To that extent, the pattern has continued.
Considering the Orwell quote, I notice that Boomers are the most self-critical and tend to put themselves down more than other generations do, which doesn't stop other generations from also putting them down more than they do to other generations.
As Boomers and then Xers came of age and became parents, this meanness, violence and strict approach lessened. With Gen Xer children, the permissiveness often became neglect. I noticed that many Boomers became easy-going flower children to one degree or another during the 2T, who believed and to some extent practiced a more-loving approach to people and children. At that time I experienced them as friendly, and that they considered themselves part of a cultural wave or movement as described by John Lennon.
Gen Xers I know are usually reasonably friendly, but they are often skin-heads rather than long-hairs, and often have a competitive attitude of aggressive survivalism. They sometimes tend to look upon the world as an unfriendly place against which you have to defend yourself by being mean if necessary, and they might have a redoubtable, scowling or resigned and pessimistic kind of look. And in the 3T, Boomers reverted to the arrogance and haughtiness of their 1T childhood and became more rigid in their attitudes.
So, did this awakening my minister described take hold, lasting beyond the 2T? To what extent? Violence at least is frowned on, I think, but were parents in the 3T and today mean and strict to their children? Does the same mean streak continue among American men today, in the wake of the Awakening, and to what extent has it changed? How has child abuse contributed to the old days and the new?
We know from many reports that boomers are and were often very protective helicopter parents who sheltered their millie and homie children from the perceived dangers of the world. The dangers abated, but the attitude persists among Xer parents today. To that extent, the pattern has continued.
Considering the Orwell quote, I notice that Boomers are the most self-critical and tend to put themselves down more than other generations do, which doesn't stop other generations from also putting them down more than they do to other generations.