(03-01-2020, 10:40 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(03-01-2020, 01:19 AM)Camz Wrote: I really like the sound of Cavalier, Lost, Liberty, and X Generation.
The "Lost Generation" was a term in common use long before Strauss & Howe published Generations. "Generation X" likewise got popular independent from Strauss & Howe, who originally used the term "13er" for that generation.
I like "Liberty" too. Reactives get all the good generation names.
In Eurasia the equivalent of the Lost Generation might have been called the Fascist Generation for the large number of fascists (Hitler, Goebbels, Goering, Himmler, Mussolini, Laval, Doriot, Mussert, Quisling, Szalasi, Pavelic, Tojo, Doihara, Franco, Szlazar, Moseley)... and of course some nasty "Red fascists" (Kaganovich, Beria, Vishinsky, Bierut, Gottwald, Rakosi, Groza, Ulbricht, Tito, and Mao Zedong) too. Underrated for his evil was KKK leader (the 1915 Klan had most of the characteristics of fascism before Mussolini established his Fascist Party) David Stephenson. For sheer vileness as persons it is hard to top the pornographer of hatred Julius Streicher, Nazi hanging judge Roland Freisler, and (Holocaust perpetrator and gross pervert) Oskar Dirlewanger.
Of course there were some very nasty members of the Missionary Generation (Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Graziani, Antonescu, Stalin, Matsuoka, Hirota) and the early wave of the GI Generation (Kaltenbrunner, Mengele, Eichmann, Degrelle, A. Goeth [immortalized in infamy in Schindler's List]). Don't forget Dillinger and 'Bonnie and Clyde' as repugnant characters in America.
It is easy for me as a Boomer to have largely seen Lost Americans largely as harmless grandpa and grandma types -- perhaps because I didn't get to see the Lost as hyper-villains of history when the absolute worst were fascists, Stalinists, and gangsters. Still, good and evil are personal choices, and in view of the consequences, choosing evil is normally a huge mistake. At that one can no more exculpate one's generation than one can one's economic status or cultural identity for choosing evil. Poverty? There are good people in the worst slums.
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.
