Gray Champion Predictions

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(05-15-2019, 01:43 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(05-14-2019, 08:49 PM)Hintergrund Wrote:

(04-24-2019, 03:22 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote: Let me remind you that the grey champion isn't always the good guy. In Germany the grey champion was Hitler; keep that in mind. In the Soviet Union, the grey champion was Stalin. Sometimes the grey champion turns out to be evil.

Hitler wasn't old enough to be a GC.

I would argue that Hitler was a bit of an anomaly due to the fact that the majority of the Missionary leadership in Germany was swept away after WW1.  They were too tied up into the Kaiser and later the communist uprisings that the German Losts put down.

Stalin likely wasn't a GC either because the Russian Revolution 4T ended sometime around 1922, 1923.  If anyone was their GC it would have been Lenin the rest of the Bolsheviks were too young.  Also the GC if he is a leader (they usually are but not always) rarely survives into the 1T and as bad as the purges were and as brutal as soviet industrialization was that was a full on Advancement 1T.

As I've said elsewhere Russia is on a completely different cycle.

Agreed on Germany. It is easy to see that the German contemporaries of the Missionary Generation included more people of principle. That generation found itself terribly weakened in the wake of WWI, for which it was held largely at fault.

So just imagine a society in which the Adaptive types are completely gone from public life, the Idealist types are largely discredited, and what remains are Reactive types with hurt feelings and a lust of revenge -- and a Civic generation that will obey any orders so long as nobody says no to those orders. German leadership was as unethical as it could be, and it had grand designs of conquest and subjection of foreign peoples, enslaving or robbing them if not murdering them. The absence of either morality or caution bodes ill for any society.