04-06-2022, 12:57 PM
(03-23-2020, 03:05 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(03-20-2020, 03:38 PM)Ldr Wrote: I just started a new thread on Reddit on trying to solve the real roots of the generational cycle, that's actually detectable in other animal populations other than humans too.
This forum is quite dead, since everybody is still stuck trying to explain the generational theory by using the "social dynamics" model, that can never achieve any real accuracy, but only guesses. I believe the reason why even Neil Howe still believes in the social dynamics model is the theory of mind, that makes humans believe in generalizations rather than hard evidence - especially if most of the people they know believe in the same generalizations. Such generalizations are that the masses react in some way to almost all societal events, even though this cannot be proved to be true in any meaningful way. But people think they can interpret why others do something - which is the essence of the theory of the mind - and then they apply this intuition to masses. But they fail when they do this, since trying to guess even one person's thoughts and reactions is impossible. If someone think they can read someone else's mind, there's a good chance they'd be billionaires by guessing how the stock market moves. But no, this is not possible.
Especially Boomers tend to do this, but that's the generation that seems to think they know everything anyways.
Whut? You mean, we don't?
This forum is the son/daughter of the original 4T forum which was shut down in May 2016. I too have noticed that this one is far less active than was the original. But have often wondered if that one was in sharp decline by 2016 and if that is why Mr. Howe chose to shut it down. Yet I do feel that it should be time for a rejuvenation as the world scene has really heated up even post-Trump. I am as guilty of this as anyone as my own participation has been sub-par recently. Yet there within lies stimulation conversation which could tap into and expand your consciousness.
I am hoping that the sane among us will win this time around and be able to control how everything plays out. It's like I recently said on another post: Reaganomics and its associated pathologies have remained on the shelf long past what should have been its sell-by date, and by now the stench should be intolerable.
Should the now-elderly Boomers reach back to the days of their youth and once again be idealistic and maybe a bit of a dreamer?