01-13-2023, 07:21 PM
What we have is more people retaining influence into elderhood. This might smooth the severity of the generational cycle that results from the absence, rarity, or weakness of one generational type. This Crisis Era may have some mitigation due to the presence of active (Adaptive/Artist) types who might otherwise be unable to alleviate the ferocity; the preceding Unraveling may have less torn at extant institutions because of active GI's who impressed us of a shared stake in those institutions.
Boomers will not be through when this Crisis ends. Nothing says that they aren't taking care of themselves.
Of course it is usually easier to reform or give new purpose to extant institutions than to start them anew from scratch... but here comes the weasel word "usually". Some institutions are so monstrous for corruption and perversion that they must die off. Howe and Strauss recognized that the elderly Compromise generation bungled the Civil War crisis with their muddling, calling for compromises no longer relevant.
Boomers will not be through when this Crisis ends. Nothing says that they aren't taking care of themselves.
Of course it is usually easier to reform or give new purpose to extant institutions than to start them anew from scratch... but here comes the weasel word "usually". Some institutions are so monstrous for corruption and perversion that they must die off. Howe and Strauss recognized that the elderly Compromise generation bungled the Civil War crisis with their muddling, calling for compromises no longer relevant.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.