Political compass for the21st century

[Eric the Green]

(03-23-2019, 08:59 PM)Hintergrund Wrote:

(03-08-2019, 04:41 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(03-01-2019, 11:12 PM)

Quote:pbrower2a Wrote:

It could be the next Idealist generation that has some recognition of X for leaving behind a better world than they inherited, and for not demanding too much to make the world good for the new Idealists. 

Xers haven't done much yet to clean up the problems of this saeculum.

Because the older generations still have the money and the power to prevent that. Especially the Silents wouldn't like it if the Xers threw their elaborated rules (and loopholes) on the garbage dump of history. - Many prominent Boomers are idiots, narcissists and fanatics, but if they could do what they wanted, they would rip apart everything, even if they're warned that they'll hurt themselves. - Silents don't want to hurt anyone, especially not themselves, and they have the knowledge to push the right buttons.

Xers have enabled the problems of this saeculum to continue too, and are part of the group with the money and power to prevent their solution. They are by and large the managers of the dominant corporate system today, and do nothing to curtail its abuses. Much more than Boomers did at their age, they have bowed down to the neo-liberal Reaganoids and support free market fundamentalism, which is the leading source of our saeculum's problems. Some Boomers at least remain vigilant idealists and activists, while other Boomers do continue to uphold their own wealth and position and resist change and succumb to fanaticism. But Boomers overall are certainly no more idiots and fanatics than Xers are, and what Xers lack in Boomer narcissism, they make up for in their own cynicism and their "oh whatever" lack of vision.