Political compass for the21st century

[pbrower2a]

(03-23-2019, 11:40 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(03-23-2019, 08:59 PM)Hintergrund Wrote:

(03-08-2019, 04:41 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(03-01-2019, 11:12 PM)

Quote:pbrower2a Wrote:

It could be the next Idealist generation that has some recognition of X for leaving behind a better world than they inherited, and for not demanding too much to make the world good for the new Idealists. 

Xers haven't done much yet to clean up the problems of this saeculum.

Because the older generations still have the money and the power to prevent that. Especially the Silents wouldn't like it if the Xers threw their elaborated rules (and loopholes) on the garbage dump of history. - Many prominent Boomers are idiots, narcissists and fanatics, but if they could do what they wanted, they would rip apart everything, even if they're warned that they'll hurt themselves. - Silents don't want to hurt anyone, especially not themselves, and they have the knowledge to push the right buttons.

Xers have enabled the problems of this saeculum to continue too, and are part of the group with the money and power to prevent their solution. They are by and large the managers of the dominant corporate system today, and do nothing to curtail its abuses. Much more than Boomers did at their age, they have bowed down to the neo-liberal Reaganoids and support free market fundamentalism, which is the leading source of our saeculum's problems. Some Boomers at least remain vigilant idealists and activists, while other Boomers do continue to uphold their own wealth and position and resist change and succumb to fanaticism. But Boomers overall are certainly no more idiots and fanatics than Xers are, and what Xers lack in Boomer narcissism, they make up for in their own cynicism and their "oh whatever" lack of vision.

One of the hallmarks of Reactive reality is that they cannot get away with what Idealists could get away with easily. X not part of the economic elites have been burned badly, and if they endorse Corporate reality out of fear of getting fired, they can grope safely -- to their children. Figure that this is part of the X influence upon Millennial kids now growing up. 

X may not get away with monopolistic concentrations of industry, and those who get huge compensation as administrators may be subjected to severe taxation on what looks like easy money to which few others have access. 

So figure that the next Saeculum will have high taxes on extreme incomes. Such will foster competition because high taxes on bloated, vertically -integrated behemoths and bureaucratic elites within them will foster competitive, smaller organizations that serve local needs and cannot lavish funds upon right-wing pols. The Lost started small businesses in great numbers, but the Silent preferred to join giant organizations as administrators; if the Silent formed businesses, then those were largely professional practices that give owners predictable high incomes from the start but do not expand in employment.