10-03-2019, 07:33 PM
Boomer counterculture looks highly individualistic... and from it must have come much of the creative tendencies within Boomers. Sure, some of them went Establishment (Corporate America could co-opt any counterculture trend from which it could derive a profit, and in such Corporate America was often more fair than in other activities).
The Quest for the Interior is individualistic, whatever the generation. Idealist generations are more likely to do it and get away with it. Few GI's got to do it (maybe Alan Watts, Jack Kerouac, and Timothy Leary are so blatant that they are exceptions). Boomers, at least from the middle class who got to enjoy the genteel privacy of suburban life got to develop intellectual experiences that later generations could never get -- and won't until at least a 1T is well underway, and if this 4T is not an unimaginable disaster.
Generation X wasn't into it because it made little sense to most. The Millennial Generation has grown up in more hardscrabble conditions in which growing up has development of technical skills and networks held in greater importance.
The Quest for the Interior is individualistic, whatever the generation. Idealist generations are more likely to do it and get away with it. Few GI's got to do it (maybe Alan Watts, Jack Kerouac, and Timothy Leary are so blatant that they are exceptions). Boomers, at least from the middle class who got to enjoy the genteel privacy of suburban life got to develop intellectual experiences that later generations could never get -- and won't until at least a 1T is well underway, and if this 4T is not an unimaginable disaster.
Generation X wasn't into it because it made little sense to most. The Millennial Generation has grown up in more hardscrabble conditions in which growing up has development of technical skills and networks held in greater importance.
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.