05-31-2018, 12:24 AM
(05-30-2018, 09:45 AM)beechnut79 Wrote:(05-29-2018, 06:25 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The civic heroes swing in youth and get in the groove, but then the children call them squares; and by then, they are.
But much the same can be said about the Boomer Idealists who partied their brains out during their youth yet by the time they reached midlife tried to get as many of their former hangout closed as possible. It was like saying to the younger ones "We had our fun but we are going to as much as we can to keep you from having yours". And the Missionaries also danced and drank its way through its youth stage only to end up saddling society with Prohibition for 13 years.
The GIs in their youth may have danced to the likes of Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey, but the Millennials seem to dancing to no one other than their technology. There are not the dance clubs and all that like their was during the Boomer youth. Their dancing partners are their smartphones, I guess. Even the popularity of the "Dancing with the Stars" TV show didn't spawn a renewed interest like I for one hoped it would. If the history of the last saeculum repeats itself, it will be their own kids that will call them out on their tech addictions much as Boomers called the GIs out on their materialism and TV watching. Where the former is concerned, Boomers ending up taking materialism to new heights which their GI parents couldn't have imagine. Thus becoming their parents and then some.
This is all good stuff. How the archetypes can change dramatically when older. The books always cite it always depends on how people were raised to what they do when older. I was JUST reading that part of 4Th Turning when it talked about prohibition! It was because of the kids. They saw what the wasted "Lost" (is that the one from the roaring 20s?) were SO out of control, the elders put down prohibition because they did not want their children to end up like them. So, it seems to come from how people want the children of any "roof tile" to be treated, then they make laws accordingly.
Your idea about the millennials not dancing lol. You are right too that millennials really do not frequent bars or clubs... they exist, but the millennials are not really there. I, too, have no idea and think maybe their phone IS their everything.
I can really envision when millennials are a little older, we will see Swing return and big band dancing. When you think about it, many of those younger people are so straight edge.... and they are going to get sick of the dance/mating rituals they've seen all their lives.... hands up, thrust pelvis, grind, hold that red cup....... they are going to not want that. There will be more focus on intimacy, subtle courting, return to a gentler time. I can totally see that.