Where the Boomers Led Us, Or Our Worse Presidency to Date

[David Horn]

(07-28-2022, 02:53 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(07-28-2022, 04:40 AM)nguyenivy Wrote: Your last point was interesting. I may be an early Millennial but I felt similar for a while in the whole 'not wanting to take sides' thing. Maybe it's due to me being an only-child, maybe it's the Asperger's, maybe nothing in particular. I have positions on things but US culture as a whole is just not collectivist in the way(s) [some?] European countries are. There have to be cultural reasons in addition to business reasons as to why we don't have the universal social safety nets and public transportation systems some EU countries have despite both sides of the northern Atlantic being 'Western'. So I have a question: What is a good vision for the future that is compatible with American culture? So far, it seems clear that the 'how we get there' part will be easier once we actually have a vision. Perhaps this is why the S&H archetypes go in the order they do? Idealist/Prophet -> Reactive/Nomad -> Civic/Hero -> Artist -> <loop back>

I agree 100%, and honestly...I'm not super collectivist myself. I just think we need to be collectivist enough to get a bit more structure, get some basic institutions and services working and stop being at each other's throats with all this culture war nonsense.

The neoliberal swing started in the late 60s under Nixon.  Venture capital got the upper hand it always wanted, and it was off to the races.  Can we decide that enough is enough?  TBD, but the dam is showing cracks.