01-01-2019, 07:29 AM
(01-01-2019, 06:35 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:(01-01-2019, 01:05 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Artists are Adaptives, which means they adapt to being repressed in childhood by being silent in youth, and then go through a mid-life crisis (which the Silent Generation may have invented) or otherwise become more activist in mid-life during an awakening, in which they mentor youthful and spirited prophets. Since then though they are stick-in-the-mud conservatives bent on protecting their position. So they did not become prophetic leaders as elders, but went silent again, and that's why it was a 3T and not a 4T.
So these Boomerish ideas mattered for Silents only during their midlife crisis? Starts to make sense now. I had a quarter-life crisis in 2006-9, and investigated some New Age stuff like lucid dreaming back then.
Perhaps after as well. Adaptive adults often serve as mentors to Idealists, suggesting possible directions for escaping the strictures of the High. Idealists go further against those strictures, often breaking them altogether. Idealists are less cautious about ideology and custom than are their living elders at the time of an Awakening (typically Lost-like Reactive adults in elderhood, GI-like Civic adults in midlife, and Silent-like Adaptive adults fully adult. (In the Missionary Awakening, the Gilded, brought up as a Reactive generation, often had taken on Civic-like characteristics; I do not see Generation X becoming a Reactive-Civic composite; X is just too old to take on any Civic traits having lost the opportunity).
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.