What the next First Turning won't be like

[David Horn]

(02-26-2021, 03:03 AM)Captain Genet 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.

The 1T is supposed to be dominated by Millennials. They are certainly more dimorphic than gen X, you see more young women in dresses and young men with beards than in the early 2000s, but you can opt of gender roles by identifying as gay, trans or non-binary. I cannot imagine this situation changing during the 1T.

BTW it's a misconception that the previous 1T was right-wing, certainly the anti-communist paranoia in the US was a right-wing phenomenon, but in terms of culture the 1950s brought the bikini, the Kinsey report, beatniks, Elvis Presley, and a lot of science fiction that prepared ground for the counterculture.

I would be more afraid of the 2T, if it is indeed of the Apollonian variety, there will be a religious/philosophical movement pushing for ascetic morality as it happened during the social gospel awakening.

Great points.  As a person who lived through the last 1T, I can agree with your assessment up to a point. The point of departure is the line between establishment culture, with its Hayes Code, social stratification and iron rules, and the more Bohemian culture that was always there and tolerated -- again, up to a point. I never fit completely in either, so had the opportunity to observe both. The Bohemian culture evolved into the Hippie culture of the '60s and '70s.  The establishment culture became the foundation of the Moral Majority and the Christian Right. The former won the culture war, but the latter won the power.  Now, it's time for another change.