08-22-2021, 02:46 PM
(08-22-2021, 12:40 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 22-Aug-2021 World View: Greatest Generation
(08-22-2021, 12:54 AM)nguyenivy Wrote: > I notice your comparison of the types of institutions the GI vs
> Silent built in their heydays. What institutions did the other
> archetypes of that time build & do we have any comparisons to
> today's set of archetypes (Boomer, Gen X, Millennial)? Were the
> Silicon Valley companies we're all familiar with now really a Gen
> X founding or more of a Boomer thing? My generation, Millennial,
> are still young enough that our biggest achievements may be yet to
> come down the road. If the GI are anything to go by, I'd expect us
> Millennials to build businesses & institutions of the type people
> the world over highly respect and can rely on for years to
> come. In a sentence, I imagine us building businesses that are
> boring but necessary, and not necessarily appealing to the
> emotions. Maybe re-tooling our energy needs away from fossil fuels
> & into renewables will be the thing.
Don't forget -- you will be part of the new "Greatest Generation," and
your generation's accomplishments will be molded by the war.
I've thought of it that way but we don't have a war this time as least as of yet. Media opinions on my generation for the last 10 years (or at least pre-COVID) has been 'failure to launch' / 'boomerangs' (people who moved back home after university due to 2008/9 recession). What were the older generations' (Lost/Missionary/Progressive) opinions of the GI/'Greatest Gen' at the equivalent point in the last saeculum? I suppose the 2000s/2010s equivalent last time was the 1920s/1930s except this time we got a pandemic right in the Crisis rather than the Unravelling.