07-25-2016, 07:56 PM
(07-24-2016, 09:08 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:(07-20-2016, 09:20 PM)MillsT_98 Wrote:(07-20-2016, 09:12 PM)disasterzone Wrote:(07-20-2016, 08:26 PM)MillsT_98 Wrote:(07-20-2016, 03:43 PM)Odin Wrote: But we're NOT just "jumping up and down throwing temper tantrums and ranting that you are deeply offended". Sure, that behavior is common among many college-age upper-middle class Millennials, but that is a class thing, not a generational thing.
I was always under the impression that the civic generations are more the team players and conformists, and it was the Boomers and their ilk that threw the tantrums and wanted to question each and every thing. I grew up at that time and still subscribe to some of that today. If we don't question, that won't nothing change for the better?
And "finding an end run around the system" is a stereotypically Nomad thing, Civics prefer getting together and organizing a hostile takeover of the system. The fact that Bernie Sanders got as many votes as he did is because of organized collective action by Millennials.
It's probably pragmatism you're talking about. We're going to need that in the 4T.
I first resort to trying to get favor from the higher ups through brown nosing. I don't try to change the system but try to get what I want within the system by befriending the right people and using system loopholes other people don't typically read about. If that doesn't work I complain very loudly. If the system seems absolutely hopeless to change for me, I find a workaround because it's pointless to wait for something that may never come. It's better to get things done fast and utilize as many resources and methods as possible. What generation does this sound?
That probably sounds like X to me, not that I have much personal experience with what you just described, but that sounds like something Generation X would do.
Gen X does not have any particular style of how to work the system. Other than of course trying to work the system itself. The fact is we do what works. If brown nosing works we do that, if that doesn't work but raising a ruckus does we do that, if that doesn't work but more subtle tactics work we do that instead.
The key to understanding Nomad Generations and X in particular (as we are the nomad generation in a Mega-Unraveling saeculum) is that we are tribal, pragmatic and are results oriented.