08-31-2016, 08:42 PM
(08-31-2016, 09:51 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Millies are starting to give some technical progress, and we X have certainly built lots of apps and infrastructure, however, it was really the Silents and GIs who gave us the true building blocks of the technological age.
It is worth remembering that Boomers gave little technological progress. Boomers have been more adept at concentrating economic, political, and economic power in fewer hands to the detriment of all but those who did the concentrating. That will be significantly undone in the Crisis.
The oldest members of the Millennial Generation are entering their mid-30s, when the earliest achievers start to get recognition.
We need remember that America during the GI childhood was primitive and hardscrabble in contrast to what we know now. The GIs did much to make America what it is, at least in material achievements. I predict that Millennial adults will subvert the nastiness of America that we now know, an economic order dedicated largely to the enrichment and pampering of elites at the expense of everyone else. X will create niches that the economic elites consider beneath themselves.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.