03-24-2019, 01:07 PM
(03-12-2019, 08:26 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:(03-11-2019, 01:50 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The late Millennials (circa 1995-2003) are very typical millennials; no adjustments needed. And they call themselves millennials. I like the idea of using one letter per generation; that's mainstream. People here used Gen Y to mean the Xer/Millennial cusp for a while, but no-one else did. Everywhere else, Gen Y = millennials. Gen Z is the new adaptive generation, circa 2004-2024.
This is probably the best, switching to Greek letters marks the new saeculum.
BTW, Orion's Arm claim that "Information Age" begun in 2000 makes no sense. It's better to call the millennial saeculum Information Age (TV went mainstream during the 1T, it's information too!), and the new cycle will probably be Interplanetary Age.
@Jessquo, I like the triangle (Liberty/Equality/Hierarchy), but what about the core value of the "hard right" being Righteousness?
There are subtypes within any of three basic political orientations: Liberals can be divided into countercultural and capitalist ones, depending on the definition of liberty (self-actualisation vs non-coercion). Among Rightists, there is a distinction between militaristic nationalists and theocratic traditionalists, because they value different kinds of righteousness.
One scary scenario -- if Trump defines the end of the 4T and the start of the 1T by establishing a new plutocratic, anti-intellectual, anti-environmental order, then the focus of the next 4T will almost certainly be the havoc that global warming creates through inundation of the great cities, and even worse, productive farmlands, in coastal plains -- and perhaps the poleward shift of climate belts.
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.
