What are your specialities?

[Eric the Green]

(09-13-2019, 05:31 AM)Ldr Wrote: Any more questions about this theory? It is good to read critique, as answering questions helps to sharpen the arguments.

Did you have medical statistics showing higher and lower levels of these two hormones in the generations?

It's hard to see how that would follow; what would explain how millions of people would have the same hormone levels, when that is an individual matter within each person's body?

Also, the generational theory is based on lots of biographical information about people in various generations. The explanations they provide do have some merit; I didn't see good reasons that you presented for not accepting them.

The preference for physical explanations for behavior has come back into vogue among millennials, who didn't experience the Awakening when the soul and spirit comes back into vogue and materialism is questioned. Millennials have gone back to the prevalent views represented by the Humanist Manifesto of the 1930s that came out when the previous civic generation was coming of age. So on wikipedia for example, esoteric ideas are labelled as pseudoscience because its pages are written by millennials, and research proving their merit is taken off by the millennial editors.

But the pendulum will swing back again to spiritual explanations, as it did in the 1890s and 1900s, and in the 1820s and 30s, and the cycle turns. Your views as I see it just represent the tendency among civic generations to prefer physical and intellectual explanations, because they don't undergo 2T awakenings.

Some younger members of the last civic generation, and some of the adaptives from the Silents, were mentors for the young boomers who awakened.

As for the Boomers and Xers being more selfish in their voting habits, voting to lower taxes and not for socialism but for neo-liberalism and so on, I think this is explained in various ways. Younger generations are considerably more liberal, as boomers were. And millennials today are faced with an economic crisis that affects them disproportionately, which also happened to the GI generation. Civics are naturally more collegial and associate and work together better with others in social networks, whereas Silents, Boomers and Xers are more individualists. Civics are less inclined to knock the government than other generations. Growing up during a 4T, with many social and economic obstacles confronting them because of it, and with morally-inculcating prophet parents, tends to nourish a more civic-inclined generation.

Also, we have a racist social and economic society. More millennials and young Gen Zers are more diverse ethnically to a considerable degree. And so society's racism tends to encourage them to be liberal because they see that liberals support their desire to overcome this racism. Older generations like Boomers and Silents and even Gen X are more ethnically uniform, and it is hard for them today to adjust and accept that whites are becoming the minority. So racism has become more popular, with Trump stoking it as much as he can to get the votes of xenophobic older whites today, especially southern and rural Christian whites, and also some younger millennial whites as well.