What's your generation and how would you change your government?

[JasonBlack]

(03-21-2022, 12:56 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Indeed. Perhaps Jason will enjoy our next 1T, and I won't. I am already totally out of step with Millennial and Gen Z youth culture. What's that Japanese video game people here seem to know about, and I don't? Things won't be exactly the same next time around starting in 2029, but it'll be enough alike so that the cycle goes on. Well, at least unless and until it doesn't. We get off Reaganomics in the 2020s, or we don't turn the cycle. I admit, a start has been made with such actions as the American Rescue Plan and the Infrastructure Bill. A tax increase on the wealthy is still the biggest missing piece, as well as greater action on climate change. Unending rises in the national debt, continued accelerating climate breakdown, and continued gross inequality, will not bring us into the next first turning. We can't get every change we want in the next 7 years, but we must turn the corner.

If we do, then the 1T should see some consolidation of policies begin in the 2020s, and the 2T's early years a further acceleration in the right direction. Let us hope.

Very unlikely. The 1T is a time of hope, community and rebirth...but it is also a time of conformity, often more ruthless than the conformity imposed during a 4T. All those great Japanese video games are such precisely because they're on a different phase of the cycle than we are (or else, a different type of cycle altogether). Don't get me wrong: hope, community and collectivism are things I value for other people, and I often support such policies out of necessity, but they aren't things I have much of an interest in participating in. We need collectivists to give organization and stability, but we need individualists to be the ones coming up with big ideas, building systems and creating meaningful art. 

I will probably enjoy the greater politeness and focus on building (it will likely be a time of exciting infrastructure projects), but in all likelihood, I'll be trying to get out if I haven't already. For once, I'd like to go somewhere where....I don't have to think about politics constantly, or avoid getting fired for sharing my opinions on much of anything. Somewhere that values privacy, respects success, where people don't need to display false modesty to avoid getting witch hunted. Millennials are really a lot like soldiers in their constant desire to sniff out "deserters" in their midst. I don't see this going away during the 1T, in fact, I see it increasing as they fall into positions of greater institutional power.