04-22-2018, 09:34 AM
(04-21-2018, 11:49 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(04-21-2018, 03:44 AM)Another Xer Wrote: The whole question of Idealist leadership to me is quite overblown by the generational theory. Can you think of anyone younger than a Boomer, who thinks in generational terms, who thinks of the Boomer's as providing leadership.
Check out Cynic Hero's posts. He certainly thinks the Boomers are providing leadership - the wrong kind of leadership. He also seems to think Trump is an exception, providing the right kind of leadership.
But when reading the posts of Cynic Hero make sure to have a barf bag ready.
Quote:Civics naturally follow Idealists; they can't help it, even if they savage the generation and demonize all the other Idealists except the one they follow.
A Civic Generation arises to a large extent from an Idealist generation which has been teaching them. It may be the generation of teachers that one has that does more to shape a child than any other generation. Born in 1955 (late-middle Boom) I had one Lost kindergarten teacher, GI teachers in grade school, a mix of GI and Silent (tending more Silent as I approached graduation in high school) in middle and high school, and a few GI and Boom college professors but mostly Silent, with most of the graduate assistants as Boomers).
It's the elementary teachers who have the most influence in establishing a culture. Note that the GI Generation was heavily female, and it may have been trying to subvert the hubristic masculinity of GI husbands. Against some teachers the result may be reaction. I've seen some of those bad teachers -- the seductive ones, the 'groovy ones...
Quote:Granted, this Millenial gal has since become a bit disillusioned with Trump because he's not extremist enough:[/quote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhEPSrson8U
This brainwashed bottle blond makes me sick to hear her. Someone like her could have been as easily extolling the wonders of the German Democratic Republic (the infamous East Germany) at one time.
Donald Trump is just about everything that an Idealist leader at the best... isn't. Extreme egoism, a juvenile level of communication, unselective pugnaciousness, contempt of learning and culture...
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.