Political compass for the21st century

[Eric the Green]

(02-21-2019, 01:47 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Here is the problem: any who would start a new Awakening are still facing Boomers likely to rebuke them for doing it the "wrong way", mostly for not going as far as Boomers would if they were 22 instead of 62. Such will probably hold when Boomers are 82, too. Another Awakening Era is likely to be arrive only after Boomers are off the scene, unable to give criticism or advice on efforts to take the Voyage to the Interior.

The odd thing to this Boomer is that some of the practices of the Missionary Generation characteristic only of an Idealist generation were attractive as no other was. Just start with music of composers from Mahler to Stravinsky  (even if Stravinsky hated Mahler's guts) by way of Debussy, Sibelius, Scriabin, and Bartok. I love Art Deco, but that seems to fit Boomers alone after its Missionary creators died off.

Or maybe us old boomers will admire the young ones, and encourage them and mentor them. There won't be that many around anyway, especially since the most authentic hippies were silent/boomer cuspers, many of whom have already passed on (like the beloved Jerry, or Paul Kantner).

But if you mean before the next Awakening, the Boomers might criticize the young ones who think things like rap or hip hop represent an expansion of consciousness. I certainly would. But the rave scene's arrival was supported by boomers, and would be again. I say that the Awakening is still available at any time; just tune into it. There are always elders or young cynics around to poo poo it or criticize it, and of course today its Gen Xers like Mr. H here who do that, not old boomers. But such was always so; for us it was the GI generation who put us down. And anyway, appropriate warnings of excess or neglect may be useful or needed from somebody.