Hypothetical coronavirus in the 2T

[beechnut79]

(03-17-2020, 01:26 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(03-16-2020, 12:56 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:

(03-15-2020, 10:57 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I'm not sure.  The dominant time of the last Awakening was during the progressive era, the tax and spend period.  I would have the heart of it run from the Beatles arrival in America to Nixon's election.  At a guess they would have thrown a bunch of money at it and tried to solve the problem.  There might have been more confidence.  America was believed widely to be able to do anything.  The 'ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" mentality was in place.  People were more ready to sacrifice.

Maybe less fearful and zany, more rational and optimistic.  I don't know though.  The next so called awakening could be very different.  I am not sure the Industrial Age pattern is holding well.

But they refused to go to war for their country. The “ask not—-“ mentality unraveled big time at this point.

That's a different debate, but collective consciousness among the new generation was still inspired by JFK, but it was inspired to realize that this deadly war of the mid 60s' early 2T was not "for their country" and had nothing to do with the security of "their country." The realized in fact that most USA wars have had little to do with "their country." So they acted together to stop the war for the real sake "of their country" and to create an alternative culture of peace and love, at least for a while.

But that peace and love mantra turned out to be so much malarkey, didn’t it? By the turn of this century we had drifted about as far away from it as possible; the society becoming increasingly uptight and mean-spirited. Boomers by and large became just about everything that they had once ridiculed.