08-23-2020, 11:50 AM
(08-22-2020, 02:15 PM)CH86 Wrote: Sorry Boomer, Xers, Millennials and Homelanders are NOT going to give up their culture, their traditions, and their music or their guns just to satisfy the obsolescent views of a bunch of Control freak boomers and Radical Feminists.
X does have a creative culture. Reactive cultures can be rich in cultural expression (in musical composition alone, the Gilded had Bruckner, Smetana, Brahms, Saint-Saens, Bizet, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, and Dvorak; the Lost have Berg, Hanson, Prokofiev, Atterberg, Madetoja, Honegger, Martinu, Villa-Lobos, Chavez, Tippett, Gershwin, and Copland). Having had some slight experience in teaching X kids, I am surprised at how much creativity I see in X. The Harlem Renaissance, the discovery by American blacks that they gad a cultural voice, was largely a Lost phenomenon.
As with other Civic generations, the Millennial generation is slow to develop a cultural voice. Considering that prior Civic generations gave the world Leonardo, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Mozart, Goya, Goethe, Disney, Shostakovich, Welles, Kurosawa, Bergman, Fellini, and Ligeti... don't prejudge Millennial adults for blandness. (Hokusai was technically a contemporary of Goya, but Japan was far outside West that he was irrelevant for a long time. Not now).
Because cinema, if good, is a big project, I would expect Millennial adults to do well in it as did the GI Generation.
By the way -- Civic youth is usually (except for those from pampered elites) rather hardscrabble by the standards of later generations. Civic adults do not want children to experience the same stultifying deprivations.
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.