11-23-2017, 01:31 PM
Here's a video on a disciplinary session between a trailing edge millenial grad student TA and a professor, who seems to be a leading edge millenial, regarding a video of a politically charged debate the TA presented for discussion in class. It's cued to the following exchange.
TA: I remained very neutral.
Professor: That's kind of the problem.
The whole thing plays as kind of a 1984 style inquisition designed to make the victim love big brother, but that's tangential to what's relevant to the millenial generation.
Leading edge millenials generally buy in to political correctness as something to be enforced by any means possible, and are horrified when someone fails to take political correctness as fundamental tenets of their belief system. Meanwhile, it's now seeming more and more like trailing edge millenials, while agreeing with political correctness, take the view that it is something that can be legitimately debated and examined, rather than as something to be enforced dogmatically.
I wonder to what extent this is a result of leading edge millenials being generally the children of boomers, while trailing edge millenials are generally the children of Xs. One might expect boomers, with their "ends justify the means" attitude, to instill dogmatism about their beliefs in their children. Meanwhile, Xs, who value their individual privacy and freedom, might have passed along more tolerant attitudes to their younger millenial children.
This also suggests to me a different way of examining the awakening era: as a transition from dogmatic leading edge civic leadership to tolerant trailing edge civic leadership. Certainly one could view the US Presidential transitions during the boom awakening as following that general path. And that might, in turn, help explain why the awakening transition is from the institutional domination of the high to the institutional neglect of the unraveling.
TA: I remained very neutral.
Professor: That's kind of the problem.
The whole thing plays as kind of a 1984 style inquisition designed to make the victim love big brother, but that's tangential to what's relevant to the millenial generation.
Leading edge millenials generally buy in to political correctness as something to be enforced by any means possible, and are horrified when someone fails to take political correctness as fundamental tenets of their belief system. Meanwhile, it's now seeming more and more like trailing edge millenials, while agreeing with political correctness, take the view that it is something that can be legitimately debated and examined, rather than as something to be enforced dogmatically.
I wonder to what extent this is a result of leading edge millenials being generally the children of boomers, while trailing edge millenials are generally the children of Xs. One might expect boomers, with their "ends justify the means" attitude, to instill dogmatism about their beliefs in their children. Meanwhile, Xs, who value their individual privacy and freedom, might have passed along more tolerant attitudes to their younger millenial children.
This also suggests to me a different way of examining the awakening era: as a transition from dogmatic leading edge civic leadership to tolerant trailing edge civic leadership. Certainly one could view the US Presidential transitions during the boom awakening as following that general path. And that might, in turn, help explain why the awakening transition is from the institutional domination of the high to the institutional neglect of the unraveling.
