03-26-2017, 05:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-26-2017, 05:48 PM by disasterzone.)
(03-26-2017, 03:54 PM)freivolk Wrote: This crisis is more similar to the Civil War then to WWII. The civic generation don´t rally around one flag, they form two hostile camps.
(03-26-2017, 05:41 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(03-26-2017, 03:54 PM)freivolk Wrote: This crisis is more similar to the Civil War then to WWII. The civic generation don´t rally around one flag, they form two hostile camps.
Big difference from the Civil War: at the start of the Civil War, the generation being raised as a Civic generation (the Progressive generation) had not yet reached adulthood. The oldest of the Progressive Generation were 18 at the start of the Civil War, and they were in no position in which to become leaders of the Crisis Era. Maybe some of the oldest, like future US President William McKinley (1843-1901) would take on Civic roles, but the Civic role ended up largely in the hands of the Gilded generation that grew up Reactive.
Today's Millennial generation has been brought up as a Civic generation, and it is old enough that it will likely take the stereotypical role of a Civic generation even if the Crisis is a catastrophe for America -- and perhaps especially if there is a catastrophe, as it would be the adult generation least held in blame in the wake of national disgrace. (See the German and Japanese contemporaries of America's GI Generation -- they were the biggest achievers of any generation in their national histories, and their countries had endured catastrophic defeats).
The American Civil War struck near the 3T-4T border when existing adult generations were at their worst -- the Compromise generation still active, but insisting upon process already irrelevant, the transcendental generation having polarized into opposing camps that sought the utter defeat of each other, and the Gilded seeing war more as opportunity and adventure than as the destruction and danger that war is. For an analogue elsewhere, just look at the Russian Civil War when the Idealist generation was divided neatly between Reds and Whites who would prove to seek the extermination of each other due to the ruthlessness and brutality of both sides -- and to Spain in the 1930s. The revolutionaries would prevail in Russia and the reactionaries would prevail in Spain. No matter which side won, most people would still lose.
It's the Boomers who are in hostile camps today. Millennial adults will choose which Boomer faction sets the agenda for the Crisis through the politics of the Civic generation which has yet to show itself.
The Millennials are hostile camps actually and often form into extreme beliefs that oppose each other. Look at the internet and the arguments there. The Boomers argue a lot but the political and values divide between different camps of Millennials is far more than the divide between the different camps of Boomers.