Looking Toward The Next High

[TheNomad]

(05-23-2018, 04:03 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:

(05-23-2018, 02:08 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(05-23-2018, 11:44 AM)tg63 Wrote: I personally question the notion that the Boomers will start giving up power in 5 years or so. In 5 years they will range between 63-80. With improved health (compared with past saeculums) and with the benefits of technology, I think they will hang on to power as long as they can, and that will be much beyond age 63. They won't go without a fight.

And that will give them loads of time to make reactionary decisions (or to continue to), that we are left to deal with for a very long time.

Boomers will not simply disappear from public life just because Donald Trump leaves the scene. They will lose their ability to decide which boomer leadership shall prevail. That may be just as well. Younger generations may decide which sort of Boomers have the apices of power. That may ensure that people get Idealist virtues (vision, principle, and decisiveness) without the worst vices (ruthlessness, arrogance, and selfishness) in top leadership. The sort of person who exploits others while demanding to be seen as a benefactor will be a reject for both X and Millennial adults.

That will be a huge improvement. It might not be best to cast off the Boom generation altogether so long as it has people of great ability. Even if we get an X President (we already have had one), then there will be cabinet officers and of course leadership in Congress. Donald Trump is not the definitive Boomer; he is simply the worst sort of Idealist leader short of the Old Bolsheviks and Stalin.

Yup, a basket full of deplorable boomers we have.

1. Most of the Neocons.  Neocons basically wrecked the Mideast.  There's Shrub, Carl Rogue, Gina cat'o nine tails Haspell , Robert Kagan,William Kristol, etc.

2. What the US needs is a purge of all Neocons. I'd love to extradite every one of them to stand trial in the International Court of Justice for war crimes. If we fail to purge, the US will go down as the most hypocritical nation ever.

3. Hang 'em high.

hey ragnarok -- missed this one.  Since everyone here seems pretty open-minded and even intelligent, I'm going to assume you are also.  Based on that, I only want to know DO you think your post was anything but rhetoric and does it help anything?

I ask this based on the rather rough description of the S&H texts concerning people of a certain age group and bracket.  Like....... isn't it things like what you expressed in your post that causes a Crisis to begin with   and is this miming really necessary to corporealize anything except counter-productivity?  seriously

and I am not judging. just take it from the nomad who came to life during Rosemary's Baby when my fetus could have been the devil and public institutions were created to let others have the choice whether I would exit the womb in solid or liquid form.  That's why I like these authors, they truly hit things EXTREMELY spot on.

And yes, it has always felt like others receive benefits which we pay for and we never get them ourselves.  That's maybe why we don't like the rhetoric because in the end it means nothing.  Right now there is an administration that exists solely to roll back the Obama admin.  With no path FORWARD, only a path to ERASE PROGRESS OVER IDEOLOGY.  I don't know how that is different from rhetorical speakers even if they are the rhetoric opposite of that.  You must see where I am coming from.