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The Millennial Generation: A Heroic Generation?
2016-05-23 03:44:21 Post No. 74813220
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The Millennial Generation: A Heroic Generation?
Anonymous
2016-05-23 03:44:21
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According to Strauss Howe, Anglo-American history can be defined as series of generation of 20 years a piece. These can be group into fours, which are called a "Saeculum". These are defined by series of "Turnings", which consists of:
High: Time of peace and prosperity. Most recently, the immediate years after WW2.
Awakening: Time of moral change and rebellion. Most recently, the 60's and 70's.
Unraveling: Time of happenings, increasing in number and severity. For example: WW1 and the Roaring 20's
Crisis: The Greatest Happening of them all. Last example: the Great Depression and WW2.
These all marks the various generations into various archetypes depending on what time of life they encounter each turning. So a generation born under High would be a Prophet generation. They grow up under a strong society and its institutions, and try to reform them for the better. The most recent example is the Baby Boomers. Those that grow up under a Awakening live under a society and its institutions under attack and are thus jaded and cynical; Generation X is the most recent example; the Lost Generation came before them. Strauss and Howe called them a Nomadic generation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss–Howe_generational_theory
During the 1990's in which they formulated their theory, they suggested that Anglo-America was undergoing an Unraveling, which would finally go into Crisis mode by 2005. Thus, the children growing up as a Heroic Generation "come of age as team-oriented young optimists during a Crisis, emerge as energetic, overly-confident midlifers and age into politically powerful elders attacked by another Awakening." The previous such generation is G.I. "Greatest" Generation.
Do you think this is true? Do you think the Millennials have what it takes to allow the world to survive another Great Happening?
