Gavin McInnis on Baby Boomers

[Galen]

(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.

FDR was the idiot that got the US into that war.  The oil and scrap metal embargo virtually guaranteed that Japan would go to war with the US.  It is also clear FDR knew the Pearl Harbor attack was coming.  In that respect the Missionary Generation generation isn't much different, as long as they get what they want they really don't care about the body count, as long its not them.  Ironically, it was the Lost that were the backbone of the anti-war protests in the time just before the Second World War.

It seems ironic that the generation that produced Patton would be less inclined to get GIs killed.