01-09-2022, 04:27 PM
X is more like the Liberty or Lost generations than the Gilded by now. It has largely mellowed, and the example of Barack Obama well reflects what people will insist in an X President. The Mature Reactive (Washington, John Adams, post-Civil War Gilded Presidents, Truman, Eisenhower, Obama) who has no personal scores to settle and isn't going to try to enrich himself in public office but is more likely to adopt political virtues desirable in other generations (kindness, caution, and conscience) can be just what we need. Obama is pre-seasonal, but in view of what preceded (the troubled Dubya) and what followed (the disastrous Trump) he looks necessary. A conservative version of Barack Obama would cause far fewer problems than a liberal version of Trump.
Republicans will be in far better shape when they recognize that all that they can find objectionable about Obama was that he is not a full conservative.
Reactives entering their sixties is compatible with the end of a Crisis Era and not with the full apocalypse. The COVID-19 plague and the Capitol Putsch could be the focus of danger of this Crisis Era. Maybe by backing the banks President Obama kept a Hitler-like or Tojo-like figure from entering the scene in some significant country that one cannot want as an enemy.
So here are the generations that hold people between 20 and 90 at the start of 2022 and how they fit the time:
Silent (1925-1942) 79-97
Boom (1943-1960) 61-78
X (1961-1981) 40-60
Mill (1982-2004?) 17-39
Contrast 1944
Prog (1843-1859) 82-99
Miss (1860-1882) 61-81
Lost (1883-1900) 43-60
GI (1901-1924) 19-43
The generational constellations of 2022 does not quite suggest that we are at the beginning of the end, but we could be. The Adaptive types are still in positions of relevance, which reflects that people live longer and take care of themselves... and stay active. Boomers have mucked things up as much as they can. X is mature enough , and Millennials are on the brink of a big gain in political life.
Republicans will be in far better shape when they recognize that all that they can find objectionable about Obama was that he is not a full conservative.
Reactives entering their sixties is compatible with the end of a Crisis Era and not with the full apocalypse. The COVID-19 plague and the Capitol Putsch could be the focus of danger of this Crisis Era. Maybe by backing the banks President Obama kept a Hitler-like or Tojo-like figure from entering the scene in some significant country that one cannot want as an enemy.
So here are the generations that hold people between 20 and 90 at the start of 2022 and how they fit the time:
Silent (1925-1942) 79-97
Boom (1943-1960) 61-78
X (1961-1981) 40-60
Mill (1982-2004?) 17-39
Contrast 1944
Prog (1843-1859) 82-99
Miss (1860-1882) 61-81
Lost (1883-1900) 43-60
GI (1901-1924) 19-43
The generational constellations of 2022 does not quite suggest that we are at the beginning of the end, but we could be. The Adaptive types are still in positions of relevance, which reflects that people live longer and take care of themselves... and stay active. Boomers have mucked things up as much as they can. X is mature enough , and Millennials are on the brink of a big gain in political life.
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.