03-17-2019, 09:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-17-2019, 09:56 PM by Eric the Green.)
(03-13-2019, 06:58 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:(03-11-2019, 11:48 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: No, enjoy your long break from the awakening mindsets that your generation much prefers; you are getting your way now, but your children will rebel again.
A rebellion in name of values which are now mainstream in pop culture and social media wouldn't be very "rebellious". But it could ignore this aspect and go against other aspects of the millennial conformity, for example against social media or authoritarian politics, while accepting the way millennials handle sexuality as a given. In old China, for example, sex was never a big deal. Noone considered it dirty like Abrahamic traditionalists do, but noone claimed is the most important thing in life like MTV thinks. IDK if Maoism changed that.
I still think the next saeculum will be more Apollonian (interested in mind and the cosmos) rather than Dionysian (Earth and flesh). In the end of Great Power Cycle it could be argued that Reason led to Auschwitz, but the lesson of the current saeculum is that Reason abdicating and leaving things to blind market forces leads to a world economic crisis.
I don't agree with the mainstream media portrayal or the rationalist and materialist view of the last awakening era. Younger people either resent it, like Xers, or don't understand it. Many boomers don't either now. The last awakening was about mind and cosmos as well as ecology and sex. Just a more expansive mind than rationalism can encompass. The next Awakening will have that spiritual aspiration as well, and sexual liberation will be back too since it's being repressed again now. All awakenings are spiritual and socially liberating. Count on it.