(02-03-2017, 04:06 PM)Mikebert Wrote:(02-03-2017, 03:59 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: I hate when you do that, I wrote a response to a question you changed while I was writing it.OK. But this would apply to all generations, each to his own turning. So why the dominant and recessive generations thing?
The S & H answer is that generations (and the roles they play) create turnings, and turnings (and the events that occur in them) create generations.
Because each generation is not the same as its parents. They react to the norms, values, and priorities of the adult generation present when they were children.
Adaptives grow up smothered, become conformist, and age into indecisive conciliators, caught between the old value-system and the new. Reactives grow up underprotected, become wild and risk-taking, and mellow into pragmatists and eventually reactionaries. Neither of them is willing to push a social moment during their period of leadership. You can still get things like WWI, but the generational configurations are wrong for a lasting realignment.
You do know I read T4T, right? What purpose do you think this serves?