03-16-2021, 04:54 AM
(03-16-2021, 04:32 AM)Captain Genet Wrote: Isn't it a possible exception from the generational cycle?
In most Western democracies, the activist community exists since the 1960s There were boomer activist students, Xer activist students and millennial activist students, all standing for a similar set of Inclusivist views. Will there be homelander activist students?
Some Boomers will be late-middle-age or outright elderly activists. These may seek to achieve what they could not achieve as social reforms and cultural ferment in the Boom Awakening. To be sure, the Boomer pigs who saw the 3T mostly as an opportunity to live well off class privilege while advocating fundamentalist religion and the economic norm of people being overworked and underpaid as the sole means of creating a more prosperous world may be kicked to the curb. They were the problem, and not the solution, and Donald Trump is only the most blatant exception.
Obviously the "Peace-Love-Dope" agenda is going nowhere. Millennial adults aren't going to sacrifice their young for any Voyage to the Interior. Boomer liberals may be the sorts of leaders that set the tone for Millennial adults who are too conformist and not imaginative enough to do that themselves.
Much of the Millennial concern will be fair pay and good working conditions that they never got to enjoy in the Neoliberal era in which little mattered except that profiteers and business executives raked in the money. Note well that the Neoliberal era was also the peak time for religious shysters who found that they could uniquely bless huge donations. That may not have been exclusively a Boomer phenomenon, but Boomers were definitely in on it.
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.