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The Raging Oughts. Question: When does a massive terror attack on a country fail to ignite a new social mood of perceived vulnerability and urgent need for action? Answer: When the generations in that society aren’t yet ready to cross into a new era. It is just amazing to me, after all this country has been through in the past three years, that the electoral map from the 2004 presidential election looks just like the map from the 2000 election. For all that has changed in this country – new skylines, new wars, new laws, new agencies – we just haven’t become a nation united with a common goal, in a profoundly tranformative new age. Instead, we’ve become a polarized society of angry patriots and resentful intellectuals – of conservative Christians battling against a morals revolution, and despairing progressives aghast at the idiocy of middle America. We’ve been through this before – in the 1920s – and I believe that the 2000s will be a repeat of that thrilling decade, but perhaps a bit uglier because of the pall cast by the War on Terror. Like the 2000s, the 1920s was an era of Republican ascendancy, conservative politics, and shrill moralism. It was a time of technological and economic progress – but also upheaval – and a time of demographic transformation – but also nativist backlash. Career took precedence over social justice, and celebrities and trashy culture held the public’s attention. Sound familiar? Read the entire commentary here… Posted by Steve at 4:06 PM
Where’d you go? Good question. I’ll get to it in just a sec. When I look at back at the posts in this weblog, begun in September of 2002, I see a personal voyage to wrap my mind around the social mood – me trying to figure out what the hell is going on. Everything about it seems unfocused and confused – all the way down to the ridiculous .us domain name. Well. I’m finally convinced I’ve got my finger on the pulse of the nation, and I’ll post a nice long piece about it, but first I’ll explain why I was absent for two months. See, I had a little brain blowout. It wasn’t pretty, but you can read all about it in another sort of blog here, if you don’t mind buckets full of angst. I just had to get it all out of my system, and I thought it was an interesting learning experience – seriously, there’s, like, philosophy and stuff. Anyway, this generational blog will probably be pretty quiet after the big insightful essay to follow this post. Stay tuned. Posted by Steve at 11:00 PM |
| Lost | 106+ |
| G.I. | 82-106 |
| Silent | 64-82 |
| Boomer | 46-64 |
| Gen-X | 25-46 |
| Millennial | ?-25 |
| Homeland | ? |
| High | 1946-1964 |
| Awakening | 1964-1984 |
| Unraveling | 1984-? |
| Crisis | ?- |
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