12-16-2021, 03:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-16-2021, 03:55 PM by Eric the Green.)
(12-16-2021, 02:33 PM)Anthony Wrote: Personally, I have my doubts.
Were G.I.s ever castigated as "snowflakes," or anything similar, at like age?
Plus their immediate juniors are acting a lot more like Idealists/Prophets than Adaptives/Artists lately - see David Hogg, Greta Thunberg, and the teenaged defenders of Critical Race Theory about whom I have already started a thread.
Doubt can always be warranted. But I have seen enough evidence to show that Millennials are typical civics, even if not yet fully living up to the archetype. But then, which generation today is? None of us.
David Hogg is a Millennial by S&H standards, which is what we should go by. Greta is a cusper, civic/adaptive. They are all acting like civic millennials or cuspers. This latest group of Millennials seems to have the most civic awareness of the bunch, similar to JFK's subgroup last time around.
Millennials are typical civics. They are experts at networking, as shown by their abundant use of social media and their tendency to focus on their own age group's interests.
Civics are tech savvy. That describes Millennials. They are pro-science, and largely ignorant of mystical or religious awareness. Some of them have some interest in this though.
Millennials typically show interest in global warming and other vital civic issues that other generations gloss over. They are concerned for their future. They have a strong preference for Democrats, even though many are independents. This is all typical civic.
But thanks to 40 years of neoliberalism/Reaganism, civics classes have been cut back or eliminated across the country, and the cynicism of Gen X and conservatism of Silents and Boomers have created an anti-politics climate in this country, also evident in the popularity of Trump, which is a tough trend for Millennials to buck. Because of this decades-long cynical and anti-education trend, Millennials have been slow to learn civic virtues like voting in midterms and understanding the role of congress and other elected officials, instead of just the president.
Millennials are not "tough guys" like many in the GI Generation, or Generation X for that matter. They haven't yet personally seen much of big battles at war. Their economic hurdles require many of them to live at home and be more dependent on parents much longer than GIs were. But the essence of civics is not to be tough; it is to be smart, and collegial with each other. And they are.