04-24-2019, 01:35 PM
(04-23-2019, 07:42 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:(04-23-2019, 04:08 PM)David Horn Wrote:(04-22-2019, 10:04 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Nothing was skipped in the 20th century. The hero generation that came of age during the civil war was skipped, according to S&H. The nomad Gilded generation was followed by the adaptive/artist Progressives.
Many of us find the missed generation during the ACW an unnecessary manipulation needed to make other less important timings work. I think yours or Mike Alexander's proposed generational map with no missing gens is the right way to attack this. If all gens are present, the crisis has to take a different shape, but either an early start or late finish can be accommodated better than the missed gen.
Arguably this crisis took place too early. It could be argued that the crisis really started in 2001 from September 11th.
Arguable? Yes, but not a triggering event in the normal sense. We weren't generationally aligned or emotionally ready for a trigger, so we simply didn't react in the normal 4T manner. Instead, we went into a 4T anguish wrapped in a 3T cocoon: a lot of sound and fury, but nothing focused on solving anything. It's equally arguable, that we're still there. Perhaps the threat was and still is not great enough to force our hands, so we have factional obsessions with a long list of grievances, most of which are valid to some extent. What's lacking is any plan to constructively address them or even the will to try. It's easier to bitch about it.
2020 may be more of the same, or a real attempt to fix things. We'll see. I'm less than sanguine.
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