10-15-2019, 09:39 AM
1. Millennials saw Boomers after their mod, hippie days were over. Millennial adults cannot relate to the Boom Awakening that Boomers shielded them from. Millennial adults in mid-life will see Awakening behavior analogous in many ways to Boomer. Missionary, and Transcendental ways of youth and will be astonished to see such in youth. They will know Idealists, but not idealists defying a staid culture and complacent ideology -- until those youth appear seventy to eighty years after the Boom Awakening. 'Mod' and 'hippie' styles may now seem quaint just as fin-de-siecle styles of the Missionary Awakening seemed quaint as late as the 1950's.
2. Boomer family life after the Boom Awakening became conventional. If it was not quite GI-like it was the sort to foster GI-like attitudes. Millennials are not chips off the old block, as is shown in their politics. Millennial adults have largely rejected the anti-intellectual tendencies among Protestant Fundamentalists, which is one expression of rebellion. (Some things are so awful, like slavery, fascism, Marxism-Leninism, and Jim Crow practice that to be a good person one must rebel against them!)
3. Millennial kids have not had it good. I see no improvement in their material conditions of life from Generation X. Civic generations tend to endure hardscrabble childhood by the standards of later times -- in part because the Civic generations do what they must to prevent later generations from experiencing the same. Millennial adults pay the highest real costs in rent and school costs, and they tend to be underpaid and overworked as demanded by rapacious (mostly Boom) executives. They get more formal education because such is necessary to avoid becoming raw labor that is expendable in the extreme, and gets extremely ill-paid. If there is a difference between Boomers and X, it is that Reactive generations cannot get away with as much whether in crime or economic exploitation. Executive compensation (a significant part of the problem of social inequality, most of it a reward for treating subordinates badly) will not be as high for X executives as for Boomer executives, and taxes will likely soar during the Crisis, especially on what is seen as 'easy money' and stay high to do debt service as efficiently and equitably as possible.
4. Boom executives are the most rapacious and exploitative ever, and most of them seem to have Henry Clay Frick as their model. Boomers will get a bad rap for that. But when those are gone, the Boom culture will still be available.
2. Boomer family life after the Boom Awakening became conventional. If it was not quite GI-like it was the sort to foster GI-like attitudes. Millennials are not chips off the old block, as is shown in their politics. Millennial adults have largely rejected the anti-intellectual tendencies among Protestant Fundamentalists, which is one expression of rebellion. (Some things are so awful, like slavery, fascism, Marxism-Leninism, and Jim Crow practice that to be a good person one must rebel against them!)
3. Millennial kids have not had it good. I see no improvement in their material conditions of life from Generation X. Civic generations tend to endure hardscrabble childhood by the standards of later times -- in part because the Civic generations do what they must to prevent later generations from experiencing the same. Millennial adults pay the highest real costs in rent and school costs, and they tend to be underpaid and overworked as demanded by rapacious (mostly Boom) executives. They get more formal education because such is necessary to avoid becoming raw labor that is expendable in the extreme, and gets extremely ill-paid. If there is a difference between Boomers and X, it is that Reactive generations cannot get away with as much whether in crime or economic exploitation. Executive compensation (a significant part of the problem of social inequality, most of it a reward for treating subordinates badly) will not be as high for X executives as for Boomer executives, and taxes will likely soar during the Crisis, especially on what is seen as 'easy money' and stay high to do debt service as efficiently and equitably as possible.
4. Boom executives are the most rapacious and exploitative ever, and most of them seem to have Henry Clay Frick as their model. Boomers will get a bad rap for that. But when those are gone, the Boom culture will still be available.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
