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Culture wars rage on as our mad era continues. Take a look at the front page of Google news for an idea of where the world is at in its cycle of history. This is a web site which is generated by software agents, collecting the most widely reported news stories, so it serves as a sort of a sample of what is of greatest interest to the news-hounding community on the world wide web. Note that you have to scroll down to the "World" section to see anything about terrorism or the Iraq war. The top story is the death of Terry Schiavo, at the center of the great Culture War drama of the hour. Celebrity scandals and corporate news are high up there, too. Can you say Unraveling? I knew you could. Posted by Steve at 2:21 PM
Keep them safe. Evidence of the protective shield around Millennials following them up the age ladder exists in recent news stories. First, we have a report from the Los Angeles Times of a shift toward rehabilitation in the state penal system. Figures the gahvahna-tor would be immune to concerns about being soft on crime. Then we have a bill proposed to keep credit cards out of the hands of college students. What's the point of that fat higher ed salary, if not to pay off a massive, carelessly acquired debt? Posted by Steve at 6:28 PM Generational workplace dramatics. Some articles in the news links discuss the generations in the work place, mostly speaking to the gap that supposedly exists between the Boomers and Gen-Xers. Presumably Boomers are chafing now that Xers are displacing them, taking over executive positions and complaining a lot despite having it so good. Michael Kinsman at The San Diego Union-Tribune actually refers to a study by the Families and Work Institute, and concludes that the conflict is the stuff of movies and little more. Posted by Steve at 5:38 PM
To drill or not to drill? The question of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge really doesn't matter as much as people would like you to think. The amount of oil available to exploit isn't that great relative to world supplies, and the impact on the environment of the drilling effort will be minimal, given the care taken by the modern oil corporation. What this "issue" illustrates is how values-driven modern politics is, and how in control the Boomer generation is of both government and media. What's really interesting is that Senator Cantwell's amendment failed, despite the fact that several Republicans joined her party's side. All of those defectors, except Senator McCain, were Boomers, showing how the generations don't always follow party lines in their values agendas. But what went wrong for the enviros? Turns out that they lost two Democrat defectors - Senators Inouye and Akaka of the G.I. generation - exactly the generation you would expect to put the national interest ahead of some goddammed caribou. Posted by Steve at 6:30 PM
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Culture truce, for the sake of the poor. In the red zone vs. blue zone Culture Wars, it seems there is no end to the rancor, or hope in sight for a resolution of America's deep divide. Well, here's a glimmer of light: as Laurie Goodstein reports, some Evangelical leaders are promoting an agenda of combating global warming for the sake of the world's poor and disenfranchised. Isn't that what Jesus would want? Posted by Steve at 2:16 PM
Let's work together on this. Democrats are in a bind, as this op-ed explains, because they can't celebrate their own ideals in international developments without giving credit to their hated ideological enemy, President George W. Bush. Doing so would just go against the instincts of this majority Boomer Congress. Who's willing to try? Pro-war Senator Joe Lieberman, from the Silent generation, with the Advance Democracy Act, which formalizes a foreign policy of promoting democracy abroad. Posted by Steve at 9:29 PM
Back in the Blogger again. Well, I said this blog would be quiet, but now I'm posting again. I guess it must be addictive or something. Visitors may have noticed that I've updated the site's appearance. I added the Blogger Navbar. I've moved the background links from the right sidebar to the left sidebar, making it just one link and eliminating the popup windows. I moved the "Raging Oughts" post to my commentary section, truncating the post that appears in the regular listing. I'll probably have some other changes soon. Posted by Steve at 10:13 AM |
| 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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