03-23-2019, 08:43 PM
(03-11-2019, 01:30 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: These generations are relatively well aligned 80 years later, but you will clearly notice that the Progressive Generation was almost completely gone as an influence by the late 1930s. The second-most-powerful person in American politics, the Speaker of the House, is part of the Silent generation, and two people who have some significant chance of becoming the 46th President (Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders) are at the late end of the Silent generation.
What I say (see the threads in my sig).
(03-11-2019, 01:30 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: There is nothing Lincolnesque or Churchillian about Donald Trump.True. But remember that Harding, Coolidge and Hoover were Missionaries just as FDR. If S&H had drawn the border between Missionaries and Lost one year earlier, FDR would be in the same cohort as Truman and Eisenhower.
(03-12-2019, 08:26 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: BTW, Orion's Arm claim that "Information Age" begun in 2000 makes no sense. It's better to call the millennial saeculum Information Age (TV went mainstream during the 1T, it's information too!)
So are books. And oral tales. And these used to have a better signal to noise ratio.
