The denouement?

[JasonBlack]

Quote:I thought that it was Boomers who thought much about the last 1T as 'creepy'.

Thinking 1Ts are creepy is most common among idealists, but people of more individualistic temperament don't tend to be the biggest fans of them regardless of generational archetype. Likewise, more collectivist temperaments tend to dislike 3Ts regardless of archetype, more security oriented temperaments are more likely to dislike 2Ts, etc (I think we can all agree most people in general dislike 4th Turnings)

Quote:Maybe it was usually children who were most critical of a time in which they were children, whether Reactives during an Awakening, Civics during a mindless and chaotic Unraveling, or Adaptives who were stifled during a scary Crisis.

These are my thoughts as well. My impression of the 3rd turning was less "this is chaotic" and more "What the hell, man? Everyone is so irresponsible. I'm all for having a good time, but all anyone wants to do is spend more money they don't have and kick the can down the road until everyone else has to suffer the consequences".

Quote:It's telling that the GI culture of the last High is readily available at Goodwill as their kids clear out the vinyl LPs and primitive electronics of GI's who died over the last thirty or so years. Bing Crosby, Guy Lombardo, Lawrence Welk, Perry Como, Patti Page, etc. in music? It all seems corny now for its insipid sentimentality.

Tbh, I've always been a fan of many GI singers. From the popular music of BFrank Sinatra, Edit Piaf, Burl Ives and Mahalia Jackson, to opera singers like Franco Corelli, Eleanor Steber, Rise Stevens or Cornell MacNeil

Quote:Band material does get revival, if only because it was some of the best pop culture ever (think of Strauss waltzes, ragtime, and the original model for the Big Band pattern -- Josef Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Considering that Mozart and Haydn wrote music that succeeded at multiple levels of aesthetic satisfaction, the question may be why people don't see the "classical" era of music as pop music at its best. It was so received at its time. Maybe American pop culture would be different had Glenn Miller lived to a ripe old age. Boomers would have reacted to the blandness of the GI culture even without the Vietnam War; there would have been an Awakening, and it would have been more strictly cultural. 

The majority of GI music was more dry, but on the plus side 
- more suitable for adult audience, not radio stations full of people who think the ideal is to sound 16 years old
- less quite as self-absorbed. it was less about the singer personally and more about the music itself. 
- similarly, the point itself seemed less like "let's make the best music" and more "let's focus on our craft and produce beautiful singing.