01-24-2020, 10:40 PM
(01-24-2020, 07:33 PM)David Horn Wrote:(01-24-2020, 06:13 PM)Ghost Wrote: Didn't the Transcendentalist Generation last for 30 years (1792-1821)?
I seriously doubt it. A more likely interpretation is: the advancing Industrial Age altered traditional generational archetypes and turnings. The Transcendentalists only seem to be a single unified generation of miraculous length if you discount those changes. Several alternative timelines have been proposed, but the honest answer here is probably: the Industrial Age was the first alteration of the underlying paradigm in 12,000 years. Of course things were a bit unhinged. Feel free to decide how and to what extent, but please, don't discount such an epic change.
It seems that generations in the past could go on for approximately 25, and maybe even 30 years, whereas modern generations rarely go past 21 years (and tend to be around 15-16 years on average, like Millennials and Generation Z being widely agreed upon as 1982-1996 and 1997-2012).