01-19-2019, 08:24 PM
(01-18-2019, 08:43 PM)gabrielle Wrote: Pew Research Center released this report yesterday:
Generation Z Looks a Lot Like Millennials on Key Social and Political Issues Among Republicans, Gen Z stands out in views on race, climate and the role of government
Howe and Strauss predicted that the post-Millennial generation (unless the Crisis of 2020 came early and pushed Generation X into a Gilded-style Reactive-Civic hybrid and turned the Millennial Generation into an Adaptive generation as was the Progressive Generation, which has not happened) would be a conformist generation operating under the shadow of its more-powerful predecessors. It would defer to the cultural and political choices of the Millennial generation until the High was over while making small gestures distinguishing itself.
Generation Z is growing up in a dangerous time in which children are over-protected and discouraged from taking risks. Like its Silent predecessors it has its childhood on the sidelines of history and will miss the limelight except in an Awakening Era in which the next Boom-like generation proves more intellectually-daring. When the next Crisis arises around 2100, Generation Z will be on the sidelines, this time due to old age. That's how it was for the Silent.
I expect it to do well at comedy much like the Silent as have the likes of Jerry Lewis, Andy Griffith, Joan Rivers, Dick Van Dyke, Alan King, Tim Conway, Alan Alda, Dom Deluise, find the world a bit too stiff Flip Wilson, Woody Allen, Carol Burnett, John Cleese, Terry Palin, George Carlin, Christopher Lloyd, and Richard Pryor. (Do you notice something missing already in American life?) -- once America and the world seems a bit too stiff as the Crisis becomes less real in life. But that is after the Crisis is over.
Generation Z isn't going to shake the world. There are already too many political earthquakes, and the world would not notice.
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.