12-31-2018, 02:35 AM
(12-30-2018, 01:31 PM)Bill the Piper Wrote:(12-30-2018, 12:48 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Martin Luther King? Malcolm X? Louis Farrakhan? Jesse Jackson? Of course if one was black one had plenty to be upset about during the American High. There were cult leaders Marshall Applewhite, Jim Jones, and above all Charles Manson.
Again, all those black leaders seem to operate within a framework very similar to the boomer one. The same for Applewhite and Jones. Proto-boomers. Heaven's Gate was essentially an exercise in New Age extremism, and nothing is more Boomerish than New Age.
Quote:Adaptive types are more likely to seek to mitigate things than topple them.
This is perhaps the most important thing in your post. Silents wanted to mitigate whatever the GIs caused, Boomers to topple the whole GI world.
What about the past Artists? Were the Progressives proto-Missionaries as well?
If I recall the discussion of Adaptive/Artist generations in Howe and Strauss i see attempts to escape the strictures of the culturally-limiting society that immediately follows a Crisis. The cultural consensus sets in rapidly and becomes rigid. The Artist generation can at most seek to challenge the boundaries on an ad hoc basis, which may imply the unthreatening whimsy that I recognize in such songs as "mister Sandman" and "Puff, the Magic Dragon" or exploiting a concern of the time such as juvenile delinquency (let boys be boys and let them grow out of it) or poverty (expand opportunity).
Blacks were ahead of the curve on the generational cycle because of racism that kept black people from full participation in the economic and cultural mainstream. Due to the context in which they lived, they were right.
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.