06-07-2020, 01:01 PM
(06-07-2020, 06:46 AM)David Horn Wrote:(06-06-2020, 09:12 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(06-06-2020, 03:02 AM)Blazkovitz Wrote: But the oldest Millennials (1982) were 26 when their 4T started. Same for GIs. The oldest GIs were 28 in 1929. Shouldn't both generation start later? Or does it have something to do with nature of the Civic archetype or the 4T?
People in their late 30s are definitely more Millennial than X, so I think the latter is closer. It may also have to do with the nature of the 3T, if those tend to be prolonged.
3Ts are prolonged parties, at least for those of us in a position to enjoy them. Since the rich and powerful are fully onboard with party-party-party, and they are in a position to make them continue, the party continues until it can't. Others are not so lucky, and the 3T is just a grindstone wearing them down. By definition, that is an unstable system, so crises are a given. That we have several at once this time is the only thing unusual about this 4T.
Think it's time to, as a classic early Willie Nelson song says, "Turn Out the Lights, The Party's Over."? But wasn't that also said back when the AIDS scare killed off the sexual revolution?