03-01-2021, 02:16 PM
(03-01-2021, 01:57 PM)David Horn Wrote:(03-01-2021, 01:34 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I like "Prophet" very much. It includes the aspect of a generation propelled by a spiritual awakening, something many people have forgotten about in our 4T times, but which many of us boomers like me resonate with totally. "Idealist" is misleading, as it suggests that prophet generations are driven by liberal ideals for the future. But this archetype seems to split between liberal and conservative, and I don't agree that conservatives like George W Bush or Donald Trump are "idealists." They, like others of this archetype, do adhere to and promote ideologies-- rather too self-righteously and rigidly. But ideologies and values and such are not necessarily beneficent and liberal, as the word "idealist" implies. I prefer myself to reserve the word for those who hold and promote beneficent, liberal ideals. And certainly Boomers have much in common with Missionaries, just as the 2Ts in which they were young were very similar.
This is similar I guess as to how I want the word "populist" restored to its original meaning. Now it just means appealing to the prejudices of the "ignorant common rabble." I would rather put the responsibility upon the common people to be truly interested in the power of the people, and I think we all have enough intelligence to know when we are being led astray by having our prejudices and fears stoked. Even though today's trumpers and xenophobes grossly fail to do this. And who are the common people? Are supposedly well-educated people and academics not part of the common people too? I prefer "the elite" to be correctly defined too, as the group that have the power that all the people should have instead, not the intelligencia or academics or entertainers or journalists as conservatives today want to define it as.
Let me raise another undeniable point: we all see things through our own eyes, and act accordingly. So Trumpers of any given gen are the polar opposite of the Bernie Bros of the same gen, yet both share an archetype. Typically, the one aspect that is truly the same is disposition. We Boomers are opinionated and cranky, regardless of what makes us that way. Maybe that's the baseline.
That said, I'm still baffled by the obsequious nature of the MAGA crowd -- knowing full well how irredeemable their hero is in real life. They smell a skunk, yet admire the fine odor.
I agree more with these statements. The trumpers truly have been led astray by a talented demagogue. But Drumpface is no populist.