01-02-2017, 12:50 AM
(01-01-2017, 03:33 PM)gabrielle Wrote: Generation X does NOT want Baby Boomers dead, Jesus!
We do have a responsibility, in our role as 4T crisis management, to build a better world for the next saeculum. But I disagree with you that we've trained Millies to care less about humanity; from what I've observed of them--personally and in a general sense--they care very much, to the point that they are derided as "SJWs" and "special snowflakes." My fear is that they will lack staying power; that they give up too easily.
They might cheer when certain ones -- those that thwart Millennial tendencies toward an equitable, sane, collegial society and try to tie X to an economic order that serves only entrenched wealth and the bureaucratic power within private industry die or become irrelevant. This Boomer, if he had the ability to do so with the stoke of a pen, would promptly grant the desire for an equitable, sane, and collegial society that offers alternatives to servitude to a rapacious, selfish, arrogant elite. I can easily see large parts of Generation X, mostly the non-white, non-Anglo, non-Christian, and non-straight parts, siding with most Millennial adults to create a more humane and decent order. This Boomer will be on your side, as will many of us. I may be self-righteous, but my moral values are consistent with a good and just America.
I look forward to the Trump Administration with much the same relish as I would to a four-year penal term. The type that Donald Trump is creates a vile order in other countries where it comes to power... and I see no reason to believe that we are not in for the nastiest politics in America since just before the Civil War.
The inequity, insanity, atomization, and elitism that threaten to give America a new feudalism creates the Crisis. Everything about the Hard Right that pushes such is ethically and intellectually absurd.
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.