06-06-2020, 08:47 PM
(06-06-2020, 12:21 PM)Isoko Wrote: Ghost,
Personally I don't think the 3T started in 1980. I think the 3T started in 2001. The reason for this is that by Western standards, life from 1950 - 2001 was one of the greatest periods to be alive in. Up until 2001 I would argue that in essence people's lives were actually improving. It feels entirely more like one big 2T if I'm honest.
After 2001 things just kept on slowly getting worse for the West. I remember quite well how each year, the West started to become even more worse off. Yet the "Crisis" never came. Not until 2020.
It goes against Strauss and Howe but must we all be dogmatic about this and accept it as the literal truth? Can deviations not atNi, I believe that the first half of the 1980s were cusp years as a heb2R eased it's fri all be possible?
No, I believe that the first half of the 1980s was a cusp period as the 2T slowly began to lose its luster. The following year saw Reagan's busting of the labor unions but socially the 2Ts grip held on until mid-decade when the AIDS scare rather abruptly killed off the sexual revolution which had been firmly bin place for the previous two decades. I got laid off from a long standing employer on May 1, 1986 and it was then that I knew there was no turning back.