02-07-2019, 09:27 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-07-2019, 09:49 AM by Bill the Piper.)
David Attenborough, Queen Elizabeth II, George Soros, Noam Chomsky. Cannot think of many more.
Still, I don't think Silents matter that much in 2019. The main issue of this Crisis is the strong political polarisation of societies: Democrats vs Republicans in the US, Remainers vs Brexiteers in the UK. France, Italy and Poland are also strongly polarised. This state of affairs is caused by Boomers' culture wars. If anything, the few Silents who are still active can only mitigate the Boomers' fanaticism on both sides.
It might be that we're still in some ways still in Unravelling mood because the Crisis wasn't harsh enough. Millennials didn't have opportunity to build up their civic muscles on the battlefield.
Still, I don't think Silents matter that much in 2019. The main issue of this Crisis is the strong political polarisation of societies: Democrats vs Republicans in the US, Remainers vs Brexiteers in the UK. France, Italy and Poland are also strongly polarised. This state of affairs is caused by Boomers' culture wars. If anything, the few Silents who are still active can only mitigate the Boomers' fanaticism on both sides.
It might be that we're still in some ways still in Unravelling mood because the Crisis wasn't harsh enough. Millennials didn't have opportunity to build up their civic muscles on the battlefield.