tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post443297882971228330..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Boomer Generation Goes BustStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-91172469891349161122011-11-17T12:00:33.484-08:002011-11-17T12:00:33.484-08:00Excellent summary, JP. The Strauss-Howe name for ...Excellent summary, JP. The Strauss-Howe name for a Boomer-type generation is "Prophet", and that's a perfect descriptor. <br /><br />The Boomers are really little different in character than previous Prophet generations (e.g. Missionary generation post-Civil War). The difference is that the post-War abundance and the 'acids of meritocracy' allowed them to go quite a bit further towards their awakening calling before hitting the reality wall. As the over-indulged children of the post-war high, they couldn't help it...it is their nature.Soviet of Washingtonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-59738747091680380552011-11-16T06:20:28.021-08:002011-11-16T06:20:28.021-08:00In modern western civilization, the innovation wav...In modern western civilization, the innovation waves, debt waves, and generational waves create what amount to four archetypical generations.<br /><br />The boomers are the individualist/spiritualist generation. Classic spiritual "awakening".<br /><br />What this means is that they are, as a generation, individualist and non-practical. This is caused, in part, by the over-the-top austerity of the prior GI generation.<br /><br />The current generation, the Millenials, should be both collectivist and practical. They are growing up in a debt saturated era in the middle of an innovation wave bust.<br /><br />That's just how the West rolls.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-22408084026275497692011-11-16T05:13:24.744-08:002011-11-16T05:13:24.744-08:00One of the hardest points to make with musicians, ...One of the hardest points to make with musicians, artists, et al is convincing them that their success depends on the success of everyone else. One has to ultimately respect those who make one's success possible. They cannot exist without the audience! Even Mozart spent a lot of time in "bars" performing. The ultimate reality when one has to depend on the elites.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-49726118668127225832011-11-15T12:12:26.903-08:002011-11-15T12:12:26.903-08:00John Adams:
"I must study politics and war t...John Adams:<br /><br />"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."<br /><br />A big part of our problem is that so many people have assumed they are beyond the level of studying war, commerce, agriculture, and industry and deserve to be practicing painting, music, poetry, etc, regardless of whether or not they have any talent for these fields or are willing to seriously work at them.David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-28552995031197931472011-11-15T10:36:25.533-08:002011-11-15T10:36:25.533-08:00Of course, the Boomers did not produce the Kennedy...Of course, the Boomers did not produce the Kennedy Johnson administration. Still they came of age in it and learned their values from the counterculture that it fostered. They then lived those values and transmitted them throughout the culture as they gained more power.<br /><br />Sorry I was not very clear about the point.<br /><br />As the other story goes, Kennedy made a mess at the Bay of Pigs and then was rolled by Khruschev in Vienna, to the point where the Russians thought that they could get away with putting missiles in Cuba.<br /><br />As James Reston explained it later JFK was thinking that he needed to find a place where he could restore his reputation as a Cold Warrior. He told Reston that it would be Vietnam.<br /><br />Keep in mind that Eisenhower and Dulles had demurred when they were asked to save the French at Dien Bien Phu.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-62511097102693527042011-11-15T10:13:18.128-08:002011-11-15T10:13:18.128-08:00Whoa! JFK got us into Vietnam to prove his manhoo...Whoa! JFK got us into Vietnam to prove his manhood? What about the idea that he feared and absolutely detested communism and saw the war as a chance to thwart its advance?Phil L.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-71730378264190771882011-11-15T10:05:25.281-08:002011-11-15T10:05:25.281-08:00A lot of the cultural disintegration, like the ban...A lot of the cultural disintegration, like the banning of prayer in schools in the early 60's, happened while the earliest boomers were still teenagers. Also, the enormous welfare state was begun by Lyndon Johnson in the mid-60's. At that time the earliest boomers were not yet 20. How can they be held accountable?Bizzy Brainnoreply@blogger.com