(05-29-2018, 06:25 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The civic heroes swing in youth and get in the groove, but then the children call them squares; and by then, they are.
I've observed the shifts in archetypes through their ages and what part of the saeculum (high/crisis, etc) they are in. The authors make a big deal out of this. The most blatant example is the Prophet flower children who went on their mystic journeys and protested war and then when they become older, they turn the opposite: they become Elders who want to force morality (their version) on everyone, they mostly become conservative, and they themselves refused to go to war in youth but have no problem sending their youngers to do that.
So, the are right the first portion of the millenials are wild children with all that comes with it (chlamydia, tats, piercing, raucous music, high-risk behavior, drugs, etc) and the latter half of them transform into a phalanx of mediocrity in almost all ways.
They can have that so long as they fix all the institutions and the mindless processes we deal with every day where no on is in charge or takes responsibility for anything on a business/corporate level and all that which has already been mentioned.
I WANT SQUARES! They at least care about things and act like human beings. They don't simply sell you a new $600 phone with the vapid excuse your old phone was exposed to water damage and cannot be repaired. Yeah, my phone had some grime on the screen so I soaked it in a tepid bowl of water because clearly that is just something I would do with an electronic device. These people coming up now will even be proud to work in McDonald's and make sure you get what you need - stuff like that.
I can't be the only one who feels like WHATEVER store or business you deal with, there's a crew on the front lines placed there deliberately because they don't know shit about their jobs. For me, it seems everywhere I go or interact with, they just started the job yesterday and (forgive me but maybe not) cannot speak enough english to make sure I do get what I need. And neither do they care.
We need people to start caring.
If there ever comes something like a LIVING WAGE where ANYONE can work ONE (1) full-time job and actually afford rent, things might get better and workers may actually care about their job and the customers they deal with. The infamous quote by Bush II was how proud he was a man in the audience was able to work three (3) jobs to make ends meet.......... because to him, that was an indicator America is the greatest in the world that if you work hard enough you can make it.
We are living in something arguably on the opposite spectrum from a "Social" structure. I challenge anyone to say we are not living in some corporatocracy with a fascist bent. It has been this way for most of my life. Every time the vultures cry out "SOCIALISM" that only means they may be facing diminishing balance sheet numbers and the CEO instead of receiving, say, $4m for their inane efforts, the Board has to explain to them it may be rather like $2.5. I'm crying a little about that. Doctors are fearful they will not exceed into private practice and own his/her jaguars and lounging in Positano for months a year. But the new people coming will see HEALTH as a public service not a way to create wealth on the backs of those who cannot afford their outrageous services. THAT is why "Obamacare" had all the talking heads wiping the sweat from their brow on cable news and using the words "Socialized Medicine" as many times as their breath will allow them. And why rump's TOTAL platform is to roll back every progress the Obama admin made. How people keep getting sucked by this idea of Trickle Down Wealth, I don't understand. They voted for rump because he is a white male and they believed he would "stir things up" being not overtly affiliated with the side that eventually backed him in their primary.
Trickle Down only means you've been pissed on.
They all need to go.