Super-elders

[Eric the Green]

(01-07-2019, 07:50 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:

(01-05-2019, 08:08 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: So, the real question, especially for boomers, is what boomers will be super-elders in the next 2T, not the next 1T. Who cares about a 1T anyway? Boomers don't. They care about a 2T. We've been in a stagnant 1T-like condition for 40 years now. We need a new 2T pretty soon. Prophets are supposed to be disappearing but not absent in a 1T.

In Strauss & Howe's book, they discuss how eightyish Transcendentals inspired the young missionaries.

Obama might be influential during the 2T, he was born in the early 60s, so he might still be alive in 2050. But he is so popular with Millennials, so will the young rebels against the Millennial world-order want to listen to him? What could he have to say that Millennials won't say?

Quote:Looking through this list is a good start,
http://all-quote.com/a/baby-boomers-who-...est-impact

Yay, Bush is the winner! He can be a super-elder during the 1T, if he follows his father's lead and lives beyond 90. And it's not illogical to imagine 100-year-old Dubya speaking to excited young neo-Missionaries in 2046. Isn't that great to see an ancient warrior, who fought terrorists back in the Industrial Age?

Stephen King, as a cultural super-elder? Would the new prophetic generation see some spiritual truth in his writings?

Judge yourself, you're better at this than a Nomad/Civic hybrid like me:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_King

Don't get me started on Bush. No, the neo-con vision is not what we need. We don't need to start wars for no reason and go conquer other countries for oil and a false vision of America spreading democracy around the world. That approach is discredited forever more. More democracy in the world is a good goal and, within limits, multi-lateral enforcement of international law and order. But the New American Century Bush sponsored is over.

But imagine the alpha-wave prophets will see much value in the words of their previous prophet forebears like Obama and Stephen King.

"I understand where Bill Maher is coming from when he says, basically, the world is destroying itself over a bunch of fairy tales about talking snakes and men who are alive inside fishes. I'm very sympathetic to it, but at the same time, given the cosmos that we're living in, it's very persuasive, the idea that there is some kind of first cause that's running things. It might not be the god of Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, it might not be the god of al-Qaida, and it might not be the god of Abraham, but something very well could be running things. The order of the universe as we see it, the interlocking nature, and the way things work together, are persuasive of the idea that there may be some overarching first cause."

Sounds good to me.