Political compass for the21st century

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(02-08-2019, 04:09 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:

(02-08-2019, 01:17 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(02-08-2019, 11:56 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(02-07-2019, 04:52 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I tend to dissent on knocking countercultural ideas of the 1960s and 70s as corrosive. Without endorsing all its activities and impacts, and not myself being dependent on its drugs, I submit that it was primarily liberating and empowering. 

This is an often misunderstood issue with the hippie culture of the last 2T.  Yes, it had many hedonistic features that tend to brand it as that and that alone, but it was also more.  We're moving into uncharted territory with work possibly disappearing as a source of personal relevance.  Some of that was explored in the 2T in the form of non-Western religion and philosophy.  It never got resolved then, but its a good template for the next time it gets addressed.  
Western culture is based on the work ethic.  How does that get reset if work becomes a luxury?

Indeed, as specifically addressed in this post on the new thread.
http://generational-theory.com/forum/thr...l#pid41374

Those were the best times to be alive if you were a single person. A time when most of us were feeling impatient, wanting to get out and explore someplace new. 
Certainly not the case today. Most of us are waaaay more cautious, and in many ways it seems as though sex itself has been given a bad name. Seems strange that almost no one seems to me nostalgic for those freer, more swinging times. I would go back to those days in a heartbeat.

Not so great if one really was a child. Much was confusing. Children born out of wedlock had trouble, and there was the damnable epidemic of divorce which few children handled well. It also corresponded with the start of the de-industrialization of America that hit men with few skills hard.

It's best that we are now more cautious about sex (AIDS probably killed the sexual revolution as Jerry Falwell couldn't), and we are no longer so naive about child welfare. As I see it America has been drifting toward the repressive, hierarchical, inequitable, and conformist society antithetical to the Boom Awakening and Consciousness Revolution. We are all expected to be responsible to people exempt from acting responsible to any but themselves.