03-20-2021, 04:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-20-2021, 04:31 AM by Captain Genet.)
Maybe activism is just another form of democratic participation? Elections are another, and we have elections in all turnings.
It does show some signs of generational trends: the "human be-in" with its typically Boomer meditative quality, Xers' tactical frivolity in the 90s and early 2000s, Millennials' environmentalist demos which are just fashionable social events. In the 1T activist events might go family-friendly and parents will bring their children to teach them to revere Mother Earth and abhor war, racism and predatory capitalism. These events will probably make on the neo-Missionaries similar impression to the one made by mainline Protestant services on Boomers. Thus they will abandon activism altogether or start new activist communities.
But if activist communities survive the next 2T, it will mean they have proven their usefulness and become an integral part of Information Age democracy.
It does show some signs of generational trends: the "human be-in" with its typically Boomer meditative quality, Xers' tactical frivolity in the 90s and early 2000s, Millennials' environmentalist demos which are just fashionable social events. In the 1T activist events might go family-friendly and parents will bring their children to teach them to revere Mother Earth and abhor war, racism and predatory capitalism. These events will probably make on the neo-Missionaries similar impression to the one made by mainline Protestant services on Boomers. Thus they will abandon activism altogether or start new activist communities.
But if activist communities survive the next 2T, it will mean they have proven their usefulness and become an integral part of Information Age democracy.