06-26-2019, 03:00 PM
(06-26-2019, 11:56 AM)David Horn Wrote:(06-26-2019, 04:46 AM)taramarie Wrote: It actually has an excellent point and the only worthless thing here is the commentary that goes along with it above my comment. It is spot on for us millennials, including us millennials overseas who are stuck with the mess and who have been lied to by boomers particularly about the freaking degrees.
We Boomers have bolloxed things badly. I agree. Then again, we've been operating on a tight wire without the benefit of a net. The older modes of behavior we were raised to follow were decrepit in our youth and totally moribund today. The ones we've created to replace them leave a lot to be desired, as you might expect. Part and parcel: we're split into diametrically opposed factions, making it impossible for us to present a coherent message -- even a bad one. So, you're on your own to work things through. We wish you well.
This reflects, so far as I can tell, Boomer economic and bureaucratic elites getting away with what no other generation could get away with. The GI Generation had an ethos of taking care of each other, at least in their own communities and organizations; I expect much the same with the Millennial Generation. The Silent simply followed the dominant trend, with people like Carl Icahn, "Chainsaw Al" Dunlap, and Jack Welch as flagrant outliers. Although Boom non-elites found themselves cowed and were unable to exercise the latent narcissism of an Idealist generation, the elites found nothing to stop them. If a Reactive gets rich, then it will be by either personal enterprise (Dell) or by spectacular achievement, as it was for the Lost. Entrepreneurs who start with little and spectacular achievers in entertainment or the professions are not oppressors as inheritors who press their advantages and corrupt the political elites are. I expect the tax laws to hit passive investments and bureaucratic incomes as the main body of Generation X to get into its sixties.
It is safe to assume that a Boomer who has spent most of his adult life in a servile or labor occupation has had humility (the antithesis of narcissism) forced upon him The Boom elites have shown no solidarity with Boom non-elites. Boomer elites have been the absolutely worst in structuring society with the idea that the rest of Humanity exists to suffer for elite gain, indulgence, and power.
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.
