10-22-2020, 12:47 AM
(10-21-2020, 02:29 PM)jleagans Wrote: Gen z has to include folks being born now as we are indisputably still in the 4T
Early-wave Missionaries were born in the Civil War years (including 1860, which had the first skirmishes in Bloody Kansas). Children born in 1943, 1944, and 1945 are in the Boom Generation even if they arrived in small numbers (the huge number of children of the Boom Generation started to be born in 1946.
I see the COVID-19 plague defining the Homeland generation by disrupting many of the normal rites of passage of youth from First Communions to the tirst day of kindergarten, senior proms, including Cub Scout and Brownie activities, bar mitzvahs, quinceaneras, debutante balls, 4H fairs, Scouting events, and high-school graduations. They are also sure to see the craziness of the current 4T (mostly a rearguard defense of the worst traits of the bad habits of the Culture Wars and the collapse of some prominent characters). The Homeland Generation may not remember 9/11 but it will certainly hear much about the "Enrob" scandal as a model of how to not do business.
I expect large organizations to make drastic reforms of themselves just to survive the next round of an economic meltdown. I would not be surprised that President Trump tanks the economy on his way out as revenge upon people that he considers to have 'betrayed' him; he is that vile and vindictive a person. Political choices will decide what troubled entities survive and which ones fail. There won't be enough resources to prop up pathological organizations, and I can easily see plenty of corrupt organizations deemed "too big to save" instead of "Too Big to Fail". Such will heavily reflect the values of Generation X (yes, Generation X has values!) that favor small business over entities that gave few of them any reasonable chance to get ahead within them. Consider that small business lacks the means for buying political influence that monopolistic, vertically-integrated companies have.
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.