Gavin McInnis on Baby Boomers

[Eric the Green]

(09-05-2016, 11:34 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(05-23-2016, 01:38 PM)taramarie Wrote:

(05-23-2016, 12:39 PM)Galen Wrote:

(05-23-2016, 04:18 AM)taramarie Wrote:

(05-22-2016, 09:53 PM)Galen Wrote: Not so much.  The Boomers really were trying to tear everything down as far as Generation X is concerned we are now reaching endgame of what they set in motion.

If you pay attention to Danilynn said in one of her later posts you would realize that something else is going on.  I have said this before and you really need to pay attention.  If Generation X ends up saving the world it will be a complete accident and consequence of trying to keep our own little part of the world from exploding.  Indeed they are busy creating their own arrangements for surviving the stupid.  Odin and Eric the Obtuse just don't like them very much.

If nomads are the ones who solve the big issues of their time why is it the civics tend to get the credit?

Probably because we don't make a lot of noise as we go about getting things done.  One thing that you should know about Generation X is that we don't do virtue signaling.  The GIs may have been doing the shooting but who do you think was figuring out how to go about it.  The Lost were the junior and senior officers of the Second World War.  They were also in middle and senior management of all of those businesses that produced what was needed.

I suspect you understand now why the GIs treated the Lost far better than anyone else did.

Yep sure do. They were the ones who fixed the mess and us civics are merely the cannon foddar.

Let's not forget the top of the constellation:  FDR and Churchill were Missionary Generation.  And part of why we were on the winning side was because we were led by idealists and Hitler and Tojo were Reactives.  They had their little qualms about things like bombing monastaries, while the idealist leaders on our side, who are about nothing if not the nonnegotiable end justifying the means, were happy to bomb Monte Cassino, firebomb Dresden, and develop nuclear weapons to use on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Only because they had to deal with their utterly ruthless reactive fascist enemies. Like what Hitler did to Poland and Russia, for example, and the bombing and rocket attacks on London, which surely would have been nuclear had Hitler won the race to develop atomic weapons..

Quote:As for why the Civics get the credit, I think it's largely because the Idealists give it to them, or at least give them the idea they deserve it.  There's no greater joy for Idealists than molding and shaping Civics to their ends - their joint ends, since properly molded Civics adopt the ends of their Idealist mentors - and the Civics know they are doing what they were meant to do.  The Reactives just muddle through and make things work any way they can.

Makes sense. Reactives like Galen do not understand world trends because of their narrow, reactionary ideological perspective, just reacting as they are to the world they interpreted as screwed up by us boomers. Actually it was older generations who screwed it up, just as the boomers said. Those boomers and boomer/X cuspers who see the wider perspective create works like The Fourth Turning, and can see where we are going and what needs to be done. Reactives who can't do this, do best if they can lend their practical skills to the jobs at hand, instead of just whining as Galen does.