04-20-2019, 02:11 PM
(04-20-2019, 02:00 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: Something else that I recall from a thread. Generations in the Civic role tend to alternate between Public Empires, and Private Empires. Public Empires-think of Republicans founding the U.S. government, or G.I.s and the New Deal. Private Empires? The first thing that comes to mind is big business, but the Progressives, I believe, were into founding (technically private) institutions with public purposes.
If the Millenials-even if not empowered by the 4T-are not blunted by Xers, I can see them behaving-not like empowered Heros-but like Progressives on steroids.
The GIs didn't really found the New Deal, they were too young. Mostly it was the Lost aged 33-50 and 38-55, respectively, who played that role. In contrast the Republicans were older during the 1789-1800 formative years of the American government, with one of them becoming president at its end.