11-11-2018, 03:12 AM
Generations as Howe and Strauss identified them from the newest to the earliest:
Homeland -- probably associated with "Homeland Security", which as an organizational name sounds fitting for a secret police. God help us if it turns out to be that. I hope that that division of government gets disbanded before it becomes a tool of those who would enforce some political orthodoxy.
Millennial -- children growing up around the time of the change of millennia.
Thirteenth -- the thirteenth generation (beginning with the Awakening generation born in the early 18th century) to know the United States of America.
Boom -- so-called by others, associated largely with the post-WWII baby boom.
Silent -- named by others, referring of course to their conformity and obedience.
GI -- the bulk of heroic WWII soldiers. GI stood for "Government Issue", referring to military uniforms.
Lost -- named half-affectionately, half-critically, by Gertrude Stein about often-rootless, often-confused young adults much more mobile than was really good for them.
Missionary -- for their heavy participation in missionary efforts
Progressive -- midlife adults of the Progressive Era who chose a middle course who preferred incremental change over either revolution or stasis.
Gilded -- intellectually-superficial who 'worshiped the Golden Calf' of capitalist gain from the Gold Rush to pioneering Big Business
Transcendental -- self-applied to a generation that thought outside the box of economic and religious orthodoxy.
Compromise -- applied to political tendencies to resolve spiraling divisions, as on slavery.
Republicans -- people who defined the new American union as a republic (Howe and Strauss)
Liberty -- the people who brandished the word liberty about as an ideal (H and S)
Awakening -- people associated with the Great Awakening in religion that transferred to a political awakening (H and S)
Enlightenment -- sophisticated, civilized people like J S Bach and Voltaire who created a complex world of thought and culture (H and S),
Glorious -- soldiers of the Glorious Revolution who built big and established powerful institutions (H and S)
Cavalier -- cynical, materialistic adults who got too much of the Puritan Awakening (H and S)
Puritan -- a wave of religious dissidents who founded the New England colonies with the intent of establishing a Godly paradise (H and S)
Earlier generations are better defined and named after the book Generations was published.
Homeland -- probably associated with "Homeland Security", which as an organizational name sounds fitting for a secret police. God help us if it turns out to be that. I hope that that division of government gets disbanded before it becomes a tool of those who would enforce some political orthodoxy.
Millennial -- children growing up around the time of the change of millennia.
Thirteenth -- the thirteenth generation (beginning with the Awakening generation born in the early 18th century) to know the United States of America.
Boom -- so-called by others, associated largely with the post-WWII baby boom.
Silent -- named by others, referring of course to their conformity and obedience.
GI -- the bulk of heroic WWII soldiers. GI stood for "Government Issue", referring to military uniforms.
Lost -- named half-affectionately, half-critically, by Gertrude Stein about often-rootless, often-confused young adults much more mobile than was really good for them.
Missionary -- for their heavy participation in missionary efforts
Progressive -- midlife adults of the Progressive Era who chose a middle course who preferred incremental change over either revolution or stasis.
Gilded -- intellectually-superficial who 'worshiped the Golden Calf' of capitalist gain from the Gold Rush to pioneering Big Business
Transcendental -- self-applied to a generation that thought outside the box of economic and religious orthodoxy.
Compromise -- applied to political tendencies to resolve spiraling divisions, as on slavery.
Republicans -- people who defined the new American union as a republic (Howe and Strauss)
Liberty -- the people who brandished the word liberty about as an ideal (H and S)
Awakening -- people associated with the Great Awakening in religion that transferred to a political awakening (H and S)
Enlightenment -- sophisticated, civilized people like J S Bach and Voltaire who created a complex world of thought and culture (H and S),
Glorious -- soldiers of the Glorious Revolution who built big and established powerful institutions (H and S)
Cavalier -- cynical, materialistic adults who got too much of the Puritan Awakening (H and S)
Puritan -- a wave of religious dissidents who founded the New England colonies with the intent of establishing a Godly paradise (H and S)
Earlier generations are better defined and named after the book Generations was published.
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.