Unresolved end to saeculum possibility?

[David Horn]

(06-09-2022, 07:57 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(06-09-2022, 07:36 AM)David Horn Wrote: Millennials have no memory of "when things were good" if you apply an unbiased measurement to "good times".  There is a 5 decades long march to the right that has empowered the powerful and weakened the already weak.  It's as if a bedridden polio victim looked back on the "good times" when she could still walk with leg braces and crutches.  As a society, we need to aim much higher, but the memory of that target is fadin with the aging populous who do remember.

But millennials were children during most if not all of the 3T, and were largely protected from what you describe. With exception for the few who acquired great wealth, most of us who grew up working class or above were quite a bit better off then than we are now. It wasn't the best. It certainly wasn't the 1T, but unlike Zoomers, we grew up in an environment where we had enough to lose to be attached to some sort of structure. Zoomers are more likely to say "None of this is working. They have nothing more that they can take away from me, so I might as well go in balls deep".

Still, the better times were not good times, to say nothing of the best of times.  Xers did better than Boomers simply due to their limited number.  That doesn't mean they did well, and their Millennial children didn't either.  The brief period following WW-II was an anomoly that needs to be reborn as a permanent state.  It's up to you to get it done.  We're spent.