03-09-2022, 09:42 PM
(12-16-2021, 03:53 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: 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.This is more or less the essence of why I like "Civic" more than "Hero" for this archetype in the cycle. The "glorious heroes" gestalt of the GI generation was not shared by all of the past generations.
- the so-called "Glorious Generation" which came of age during the Salem Witch Trials honestly wasn't very glorious compared to their idealist fathers. They were more like well behaved home school children who went on to become skilled tradesmen, businessmen and professionals.
- the Republican Generation (Thomas Jefferson's generation) was glorious and heroic...but so were the Liberty (Nomad/Reactive, George Washington's generation) and Awakening (Idealist/Prophet, Benjamin Franklin's generation)
- (skip Civil War saeculum)
- GIs were glorious and heroic
- millennials are...well, not.
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