What the next First Turning won't be like

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(02-28-2021, 12:08 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(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.

I would not be too concerned about it, myself. Historians have pointed out that social freedoms, once gained, are seldom reversed; at least for modern western societies. In the Social Gospel Awakening, there was a lot of experimenting with free love, more casual dress, new sports and outdoor activities, new kinds of music that opened the way to jazz, new-thought religions that are not fundamentalist and emphasize personal experience, new arts inspired by drug use, etc., along with the prohibition movement, anti-saloon movement, fundamentalist movements, etc. But then, the Consciousness Revolution also had its conservative elements. Awakenings are much more alike than they are different according to the double rhythm.

Thanks for your thoughts.

One of the exceptions though was that in many areas 18 to 20 year olds had won the right to drink. By the mid 1980s that was lost throughout the US as the minimum age of 21 was restored. More recently the age for purchasing tobacco products was raised as well. Why is it that we are the only place in the world where you have to be 21? And might the issue be resurrected in the next 2T?