Are Millennials Cemented as Civics/Heroes Yet?

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(03-11-2022, 05:04 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: They are that. But many of us Boomers really felt liberated and elevated by the social and spiritual movements that our generation experienced in our youth. The best of us do, at any rate. Younger generations have a distorted view of those times painted by the media and conservative propaganda. I celebrate and revere those times. Millennials who understand this are blest.

It's all well and good to appreciate those times for what they were, but it's also important to recognize that those times are in many ways responsible, at least indirectly, for the current times. No turning can continue forever, especially not a 2T, which is perhaps the least sustainable of all of them. It's interesting to me that you have such positive feelings about the 2T still, because the social and spiritual movements of the 1960s and 1970s, as positive as they were (at least at the beginning), were ultimately responsible for creating the very neoliberalism you are so vocally against. These two things are inseparable. They are one event and must be understood as such.

This is why many Millennials feel negatively toward this time. It is not just the time that created the ideology that this generation perceives as responsible for many of the problems of today - it's also the time when society appears to have collectively decided "well, it looks like we're driving in the right general direction, I guess we don't need this anymore" and thrown the steering wheel out the window. And this worked fine for a few decades (3T), but Millennials are now the generation that has been saddled with the responsibility - through no fault of their own - of desperately trying to reattach the steering wheel as fast as possible while the Car Of Society is careening toward a cliff, and the Boomers are fighting it every step of the way, because they're either planning to jump out or expecting to be dead before the car reaches the cliff.

This is where Millennial anti-2Tism comes from. It is the perspective of people who have experienced only negative effects of 2T, never the positive parts.

So, all of this to say...it's important to try to step outside of one's own generational biases, and appreciate all turnings for what they are, in full. All turnings are "morally neutral." They are good and bad equally, and none should be celebrated more than any other. This is a crucial point of the theory.

The times you celebrate and revere cannot occur in isolation. There is always another side to the coin, and it can't be ignored.