New Archetype Names!

[David Horn]

(03-19-2021, 05:39 AM)Captain Genet Wrote:

(03-14-2021, 12:41 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I would call nomads "experimenters with forms," which is how S&H describe them. Every young generation these days tends to have its own cultural rebels and experimenters in their own style. The nomad counter-culture was different from that of the prophets and silents, and no more rebellious than the others. Maybe the civics are least prone to this cultural counter-trend, but they kick up their heels too. The young GIs were big jazz buffs and their dancing was spectacular, for example. The Millennials seem open to everything that has gone before, depending on the millennial individual. Many of them, however, seem content with a superficial and bland popular culture, and by the 1950s, at least, the same was true of many GIs and Silents.

Prophets experiment with new moralities and spiritualities.
Nomads with new styles of music, dress and entertainment.
Civics with new form of social organization.

The only archetype that doesn't experiment is the Artist?

H-m-m. You have applied to the Nomads what is inherent to the Artists, though certainly not all of them.  The last cycle, the Beat movement came directly from the Silent Generation, and the Hippies derived directly from the Beats.  Dig up a copy of Tom Wolf's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test as an interesting narrative on the subject.