What the next First Turning won't be like

[jleagans]

(01-31-2021, 03:28 PM)nguyenivy Wrote:

(10-29-2020, 06:38 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(10-29-2020, 02:05 PM)Camz Wrote: I wonder how the revival of gender roles will affect gay, trans, and non-binary people. I'm really scared for that honestly. If there will be a new wave of cis-heteronormativity I'm really not gonna enjoy this High.

That's the way highs are.  You get to conform to the majority and if you don't like it, tough luck.  You may have to hang in there until the awakening.

1st-wave Millennial here concerned we may not even be alive by the time the next Awakening arrives. Usually people of our cohort (Hero) don't take part in Awakenings or are just too old to care, right? I wonder if we're the worst cohort in the set as we're way too young to enjoy the 3T, then there's the 4T, then there's the conformist world of the post-4T/1T. This time around our crisis may just be the virus impacts, so no war (we really do not need one anyway now - we have enough bad times from COVID) there for the 'Hero' to shine.

If COVID-19 work-from-home remains, we may see a High full of refinement of home life like in the 1950s where people who could afford it moved to bigger suburban houses. Small apartments won't be in demand if we both work & live at home. Those work if most of life is spent away from home with the apt used as just a bed, closet, & shower.

Nah Millennials/Heroes have it the best.  The toughest part of life is done by middle age with us being able to reap the rewards and rebuild communities in the arrangements newly needed from the Awakening.