10-03-2021, 11:09 PM
(03-16-2021, 04:55 AM)Captain Genet Wrote:(02-28-2021, 12:08 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: 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.
The similar thing for both 2T is that Bohemian, hedonistic trends were more prominent in the beginning and theocratic trends gained momentum later. The differences are the relative strength of these trends, as well as the focus of the theocrats. Missionary fundamentalists focused on imposing Christian morality in public life, Boomer evangelicals focused on a "purrsonal relayshunship wid Jeezus".
So, in next 2T I expect a big party in the late 2040s followed by a crusade in the 2050s.
Christian morality was heavily challenged during most if not all of the last 2T. Early on there was the Jesus People, but that was a fleeting moment in time which evaporated quickly. The Moral Majority, led by the late Jerry Falwell, was stronger but was dwarfed by the hedonism of the times. It wasn’t until the AIDS scare of the mid-1980s that the fun times ended. In the late 1980s came the cocooning trend where the partiers of the previous two decades returned to their homes. Unlike 4Ts where the bulk of the actions comes late in the turning, 2Ts tend to be front loaded with the bulk of the action occurring in the turning’s early stage. But the disco years were certainly an extension of the hedonism spawned during the free love period.