06-28-2019, 06:21 AM
(06-28-2019, 01:59 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:(06-27-2019, 09:44 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote: I mean that if someone is vastly outnumbered in the way their peers think, they can't make a big influence until their peers are in older age and they have younger people to listen to them. Timothy Leary had a 2T way of thinking so he influenced things in the 2T. Ronald Reagan had a 3T way of thinking so he influenced things in the 3T. I'm not comparing the two, just stating some examples.
You are absolutely right. Gen Xers liked Reagan because he was basically like them. The sci-fi author Ray Bradbury had a boomer-like outlook (pacifism, appreciation of mythical thinking) despite having been born in 1920. Tolkien was born in the late 19th century, yet he was more like a Silent than a Lost. We even had a thread about people who don't fit their generational archetypes.
I don't think I have a millennial way of thinking, that's why I'm looking forward to new prophetic generation.
I agree. Pre-seasonal thinking does produce the mentoring effect, and it's often huge. Everyone has to learn from someone. The youngest Artists created the leading edge of the music wave that the Boom built even higher. Let's not forget that. Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, the Beatles: we Boomers claim them but they were actually Silents, or War Babies.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.