Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-09-2020, 02:03 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: As I've said before, I never thought that Generational Dynamics was going to make me rich and famous, but I did hope that I could make a living from it.  Generational Dynamics is an enormous advancement in the analysis of history and the world, but instead of bringing me a living, it's only brought me hatred and being shunned by people I've known for years.  It's been a personal disaster for me.  At least Jeremiah was lucky enough to have a book written about him.  Perhaps my death will allow Generational Dynamics to be more widely recognized, and someone will write a book about it.  I do not want to be stoned to death.  I have no hope for life except to die quickly and painlessly.

You don’t get it.

I too have been something of a predictor of the future.  I have not become a social outcast by doing so.  The predictions I make mesh quite well with the average person I bump into.  Granted, this is Massachusetts.  Still, from time to time when we are grumbling about politicians, I bring in various aspects of my perspective.  The conversation generally takes off and I make friends with it.  There is no clash.  My world view is comparable to the people in the world around me, only a bit more thought out.

The difference is that Generational Dynamics is centered on Industrial Age observations and ways of thought and predicts things which would be quite true in the Industrial Age.  You have an Industrial Age mindset.  People were by the time the crisis rolled around quite ready and eager for a crisis war.  A crisis war was about all there was that would traumatize the kids growing up during the war.

Assume all generations that grew up in the shadow of nukes were traumatized.  Assume that the 1960s Generation Gap is inverted.  The older GIs were in favor of war, the young blue boomers were in favor of peace, so the way of thinking had reversed from the Industrial Age approach.

Work through the Generational Dynamics mechanisms with that assumption.  All generations are traumatized, or at least have made a logical rational decision to not put someone in charge who might start a crisis war.  The generation line featured in GD vanishes.  The cycles greatly change at the age boundary.  Predictions coming out of the system will no longer rise the hackles of those you encounter.

It is not the fact that you try to predict the future that makes people hate.  It is that you are making predictions incompatible with the way they think.  In this case, as it is the way they think that you are trying to predict, this does not give confirmation to your system.