07-12-2019, 08:28 PM
(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.
Tolkien was South African, The Boer War was their Crisis, not WW1 or WW2.
(06-28-2019, 06:21 AM)David Horn Wrote: Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, the Beatles: we Boomers claim them but they were actually Silents, or War Babies.
Boomer are truly narcissist, they claim anything for their generation (and the Silents are too afraid to grab the megaphone from these bullies). Whatever you think about feminism, gay rights, and the sexual revolution: The pioneer work had been done by Silents, for better or worse (they and the Boomers got the better, others get the worse).
It's like the Party in 1984 claiming at first they had invented the helicopter, and later the airplane too (and in the future, Winston expects they'll claim the steam engine).