How conservative are Homelanders really?

[David Horn]

(02-14-2022, 09:33 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(04-22-2020, 03:24 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(04-22-2020, 08:21 AM)Isoko Wrote: Rebellion is not a common  thing entirely throughout turnings and I would argue that the 1960s was a rather unique event that won't be repeated for a long time to come.

It needs to be constant!

perpetual subversion!

I'm assuming you're being a bit tongue-and-cheek, but...no, we don't. Americans have turned into an insufferably rude, impulsive and entitled culture across generations because we've been taught for so long to be "passionate", "let our voices be heard", "fight the system", etc. Everyone is so concerned with dreams, ideology and spectacles of emotion that advocacy has become a vacuous attention game, and the players have no idea how to get things done.

I realize the irony of having just dissed the hell out of millennials only to turn around and say something classically Civic gen, but yeah...we don't need any more of that. We need coolers to prevail if we want to fix things. We need more focus on pragmatism, competence and emotional self-regulation. Americans are so obsessed with "rebellion", "starting a movement", raging against this and that, but this is exactly the kind of mindset that leads a country in crisis down the path of a neurotic mob swept up in momentary frenzy.

Frankly, we need to make it acceptable to just...be a normal ass person who wants to get married and have kids. The obsession people have with being seen as special, virtuous, a "trailblazer" has moved from novel and entertaining a few decades ago to a mainstay of rampant cultural narcissism (in my experience, inward turning, "spiritual" and "high consciousness" people are way more narcissistic on balance than most "materialistic" people who just want to have some nice stuff and be left alone).

Whether intentionally or not, you've taken a communitarian position that fits the Millennial model to a T.  After 40 years of libertarianism, it's a refreshing change.