The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(04-18-2020, 02:48 AM)taramarie Wrote: What would it help being part of a different generation? Just curious. If it is to do with the coronavirus, i am a millennial and have to be careful because i have acute asthma. If it has to do with living your retirement in a crisis, well life sucks for everyone in a different time. I didnt get a great start in life with my youth being spent in this crisis here and now. Then apparently there will be a generation that tries to tear everything apart that we millies will create in the future? No thanks! As said, all generations go through some bs at different times. Gen X probably could say the same so i hear. Lol.

I guess I did pretty good.  I was barely too young to be drafted into the Vietnam war, and young enough to catch the end of the progressive era.  Good jobs were still available.  The Unraveling was where I spent the bulk of my life, which was a time of selfishness and hedonism.  The politics of arguing across the aisle was tedious, getting the conservatives to acknowledge that problems still existed as they determinedly looked the other way.  Still, I watched from a fair distance.  

The crisis was supposed to hit the civic generation.  How was I supposed to know it would be aimed primarily at the prophets?  Medically, I started to fall apart with first a brain tumor that shot my balance and left me handicapped, and now the Coronavirus.  Still, if it is only a year or two I should be able to work though it.  There is just a feeling that I have drifted though my younger times to be isolated now.

According to the books, the Crisis solves a big problem, the new values get reshaped for that problem, we shape things to try to avoid a repeat of the problem, then the nomads put a break on things and build a lot of infrastructure.  That might take the form of starships and fusion reactors?  

But however well the infrastructure might be built, there will be flaws perceived by the next bunch of prophets.  At least, the flaws have always been there before.  Society has never been perfect?  As a prophet, the idea isn’t to tear down what was built, but to see fixed the clearly blatant flaws.  We had draft cards, coat hanger abortions, blacks not served here, glass ceilings and stinky streams.  Next time around, different flaws will be perceived.  

People are disappointed in advance by Biden.  I don’t know how much of the blue agenda he might try to put in in the Crisis.  If he is as wishy washy as is expected, the next prophets are going to be complaining about ecology, warming and population.  I don’t know how that will become your generations fault, but if you are in charge at the time, you’ll get yelled at.