02-21-2019, 01:47 AM
Here is the problem: any who would start a new Awakening are still facing Boomers likely to rebuke them for doing it the "wrong way", mostly for not going as far as Boomers would if they were 22 instead of 62. Such will probably hold when Bo0omers are 82, too. Another Awakening Era is likely to be arrive only after Boomers are off the scene, unable to give criticism or advice on efforts to take the Voyage to the Interior.
The odd thing to this Boomer is that some of the practices of the Missionary Generation characteristic only of an Idealist generation were attractive as no other was. Just start with music of composers from Mahler to Stravinsky (even if Stravinsky hated Mahler's guts) by way of Debussy, Sibelius, Scriabin, and Bartok. I love Art Deco, but that seems to fit Boomers alone after its Missionary creators died off.
The odd thing to this Boomer is that some of the practices of the Missionary Generation characteristic only of an Idealist generation were attractive as no other was. Just start with music of composers from Mahler to Stravinsky (even if Stravinsky hated Mahler's guts) by way of Debussy, Sibelius, Scriabin, and Bartok. I love Art Deco, but that seems to fit Boomers alone after its Missionary creators died off.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.