The Latest Generation

This is a bit of stretch for relevance but: It's Tax Day, and sometimes that's too busy a day to get anything else done. While composing Fanfare for the Common Man, Aaron Copland thought Tax Day was the most common sort of day for modern man, and that it would make a good day for a premiere.  Which this isn't, but it's a decent look at the music that opens this podcast. --------------------------------------- Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait, the music used for the introduction to this podcast, ties together two previous Fourth Turnings - commissioned after Pearl Harbor and including Civil War quotes from the 16th President -  in a way which makes it feel even more relevant as this current Crisis unfolds. ---------------------------------------- A few relevant Wikipedia links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Portrait https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Copland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickett%27s_Charge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-water_mark_of_the_Confederacy https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein This site has Kostelnetz commissioning it within 10 days - mid-December 1941- and that copland began writing in late February https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2007/julyaugust/feature/the-sound-freedom     The different excerpts are from   1) Address to congress 1862: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29503 2) Seventh and final Lincoln-Douglas debate October 15 1858 https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/debate7.htm 3) Collected works: https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/onslavery.htm 4) The Gettysburg Address 1863:  https://www.npr.org/programs/specials/copland/coplandstory.html   The NPS site says his slavery quote is from August 1, 1858 - 110 years before this recording. https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/onslavery.htm This site says the date is pure conjecture, is from a scrap of paper that Mary Todd Lincoln passed to archivists later, and is signed with a different piece of paper from another document. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln2/1:547?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Vin Scully, voice of the Dodgers, with the L.A. Philharmonic in 2017 https://www.ocregister.com/2017/07/14/see-vin-scully-narrate-the-words-of-abraham-lincoln-at-the-hollywood-bowl/ A direct link to a Youtube video of that performance https://youtu.be/6qpYwrla0GE More on the quote about freedom and democracy https://abrahamlincoln.quora.com/Close-Reading-2-Lincoln’s-Definition-of-Democracy-August-1-1858 The first item there is is a NYTimes piece from 1895 - that would be 30 years after the Civil War - that attributes it to Lincoln by the judge who ….attributes it to him.  https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/09/13/106068178.pdf Last witness of the assassination of Lincoln, still alive in 1956, 14 years -after- the premiere of Lincoln Portrait https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPoymt3Jx4    

  Prompt the First - Band of Brothers September 9, 2001 - Sunday ~ nearly 23 years ago ~ 55-60 years after the events portrayed WIth regards to people being comforted by the familiarity of battle movies, I was particularly thinking of the use of the Awahanee Hotel in Yosemite Valley as a treatment for shellshock, as PTSD was called at the time. It didn't work very well, because it was TOO quiet and peaceful, and left those affected with only their thoughts. https://www.nps.gov/articles/yosemitehospitalwwii.htm The previous episode where World War II items were discussed - such as The Producers - was The Latest for February 10. (Note - related stuff in Prompt the 2nd from February 10)   Prompt the Second - The Cultural Revolution as 2nd Turning Ref 3 body problem, and Mao being an older …nomad? No, probably prophet himself, if (as it appears) China is a bit ahead of the Anglo-American saeculum who gets more than he expected from the Prophet youth.  https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/3-body-problem-the-chinese-cultural-revolution-explained-briefly/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session https://bsky.app/profile/nicholasgrossman.bsky.social/post/3kpkdznvl3a25   Prompt the Third - free the anxious generation Concerning a bill posted nearby, and a couple of kids sharing an electric scooter ... without a helmet.  And hints to the possible endings of this Fourth Turning. https://www.anxiousgeneration.com https://www.freerangekids.com

The Ten Commandments was on, which is set completely in the 19th dynasty, but because it's soon after the 18th it seems relevant enough. There are a number of candidates for the Pharoah of the Exodus. As the 1956 movie The Ten Commandments shows, one is Ramses II, the third pharaoh of the 19th dynasty. The 18th Dynasty has at least one or two as well, and that Akhenaten attempted to institute monotheism during his reign raises some questions in that regard.  ===================================== A look at the 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt, specifically considering whether we can effectively align it with the generational model. A listing of the pharaohs of the 18th dynasty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Dynasty_of_Egypt On the historicity of the Exodus, including mentions of Akhenaten and other 18th Dynasty pharoahs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sources_and_parallels_of_the_Exodus The breakdown described, moving backwards from 1292 BCE (end of Horemheb's reign, and end of the 18th dynasty).   Starts Ends Pharoah at start Pharaoh at end Complete Second 1592 1573       Third 1572 1553       Fourth 1552 1533 Kamose (17th) Ahmose I   First 1532 1513 Ahmose I Amenhotep I   Second 1512 1493 Amenhotep I Thutmose II Thutmose I Third 1492 1473 Thutmose II Hatshepsut   Fourth 1472 1453 Hatshepsut Thutmose III   First 1452 1433 Thutmose III Thutmose III   Second 1432 1413 Thutmose III Amenhotep II   Third 1412 1393 Amenhotep II Thutmose IV   Fourth 1392 1373 Thutmose IV Amenhotep III   First 1372 1353 Amenhotep III Akhenaten   Second 1352 1333 Akhenaten Tutankhamun Smenkhkare Neferenefureaten Third 1332 1313 Tutankhamun Horemheb Ay Fourth 1312 1293 Horemheb Horembeb   First 1292   Ramses I (19th)    

Thoughts on the film Eternals, a Marvel Cinematic Universe film from 2021   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternals_(film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9032400/ - on IMDB   Here's the Bluesky thread with my initial thoughts, most of which are in here. https://bsky.app/profile/generationalize.bsky.social/post/3koba7n5kd526   As one of the Story Aside episodes, it begins from the Stories model: http://stories.generationalize.com

Prompt the First: Four years later. In the time of Covid.  It’s four years since COVID lockdowns. That seems significant to me, in a way that the four year anniversary of 9/11 didn’t. But the 1 year anniversary of 9/11 was important, and 4 years wasn’t. What’s the difference? Prompt the Second: Saving the MCU with Generational Analysis A previous look at one small part: http://stories.generationalize.com/2019/06/ Iron Man Infinity War - Thanos' Snap Endgame - the Blip and Attack on Avengers Compound, which (i'd say) should be, really, the end of this 4th Turning. "This is the battle of our lives" - Steve Rogers The Matrix (1997) The initial tweet  https://x.com/petreraleigh/status/1768708381064175908?s=46&t=h3SDrddBzjyl2UOHr9Q3xA  https://x.com/pataphysician/status/1768730842270982520?s=46&t=h3SDrddBzjyl2UOHr9Q3xA “ don’t have the attention span for tv”

Re-upping this one, because I've let it go for a bit and coming back to it now.  Consider this one a reminder of things to come. ============================================ The atomic bomb test on July 16, 1945 - also known as Trinity - occurred only 3 weeks before the bombing of Hiroshima and only 7 weeks before the end of the war. Looking at it as the midpoint of that summer, it was only one of many signficant events in the last three months of World War II. I've started a project looking at each of those days, to create a view of that time, to better understand what went into the decision to create and use the atomic bomb, and how people around the world reacted to it. Starting from Memorial Day, at the end of May 1945, and continuing through Labor Day- the day after the official Japanese surrender -  it will look at every single day, finding something something signifcant, or at least noteworthy.   There's Klaus Fuchs, meeting with Harry Gold in Santa Fe on June 2, to pass atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Or Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, killed on Okinawa on June 18. The first troops returning from Europe on July 1.  President Truman leaving for Potsdam on July 7. Clement Atlee winning the election in the United Kingdom on July 26, replacing Churchill as Prime Minister. The bombing of Hiroshima. The August Revolution in Vietnam. The Occupation of Japan starting on August 28. The short ceremony ending the war on September 2nd - a quiet Sunday in a Tokyo Bay, not unlike one four years earlier.

A final episode for the initial Mapping History consolidation, asking the questions "What's Left" and "What Next?"

In Third Turnings we can expect to see Less powerful societal structures More freedom for individuals to do what they consider worthwhile Exciting (if bubbly) economies as individuals explore new opportunities Names we still recognize as some individuals make themselves known 1543 - Nicolaus Copernicus publishes "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres" As we draw the final side of our map - the Third Turning, or Unraveling - we'll be looking at people like Nicolaus Copernicus, who suggested that the Earth rotates around the Sun.  The Unraveling is a time of individual freedom, when people make discoveries, inventions, or achievements - generally without the assistance of governments, in a way that attaches their own names to what they've done.  1666 - Isaac Newton's Miraculous Year Stuck at home during the plague year of 1666, young Isaac Newton considered important scientific issues of the day, and quickly made amazing advances in mathematics, astronomy, physics, and general understanding of the universe.  1752 - Benjamin Franklin Flies a Kite Benjamin Franklin was well known for a number of reasons, but even today "flying a kite in a thunderstorm" is one of the first that comes to mind. This is a landmark that everyone knows about, and one reason for having it here is to give a specific date to it (1752, that is). There’s also the concern over how authentic to consider it - the descriptions here are definitely from Franklin and in that year, even if he was neither to first to try it nor confirmed to have actually done it.   1852 - Uncle Tom's Cabin published by Harriet Beecher Stowe Viewing slavery as a moral or economic issue makes it easier to talk about, since it removes people from the conversation, allowing opportunities for compromise, ways to get along, ways to talk past the difficult conccept of people being used. That was often how such discussions of slavery in the Uniited States had gone for a while. Harriet Beecheer Stowe's story of enslaved people in the South moved the conversation in a less comfortable direction, by making the suffering of slaves personal and specific. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Northup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Frederick_Douglass,_an_American_Slave 1927 - Charles Lindbergh Crosses the Atlantic It's the Roaring '20s, and there are new ways of making money, new technologies, new ways of becoming famous. Charles Lindbergh had learned to fly airplanes, and would use his understanding of this new technology to become rich and one of the most famous people on the planet.   1990 - Tim Berners-Lee Invents the World Wide Web The dot-com era happened when it did because of the invention of the World Wide Web, which made it easier to use the connected network of computer networks we call The Internet. https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html  

  Prompt the First: Put on Your Sunday Clothes Hello Dolly: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064418/ Wall*E: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/   Prompt the Second: The Young Adult Suicide Chart Here's the tweet with the initial chart https://x.com/armanddoma/status/1758375001030627750?s=46&t=h3SDrddBzjyl2UOHr9Q3xA Shows increase and peak to 1994, sharp drop through 2003, then mostly show increase to 2013, spiking from there to 2017 CDC says “ ●  The suicide rate among people aged 10–24 remained stable from 2001 through 2007 and then increased 62% from 2007 through 2021 (from 6.8 deaths per 100,000 to 11.0) (Figure 1). “ That’s “in the United States” CDC version is 10-24, and peaks at 11/100K in 2021 There is, incidentally, no noticeable bump from Covid; the recent peak is one the trend The chart is really rather misleading, as it shows a change from about 12/100K to 14/100k Prompt the Third: The Starship Troopers discourse This tweet appears to have kicked it off this time around https://x.com/HariSel57511397/status/1758251273617375340?s=20 But this is more my attitude. https://x.com/hEnereyG/status/1758926167376368089?s=20 Still, not complaining if it works for you. It mostly didn't for the professional film critics who viewed it in 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(film)#Reception

Prompt the first: What my dad did in the war He was right about 30, with 3 kids, working to make Vietnam the best war possible. So he was Young Adult, G.I. were Midlife/managers, Lost (a few of the younger ones) were Visionaries.  Prompt the Second: The Producers and the limits of acceptable parody  Released in 1967 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063462 The U2 album was Achtung Baby Prompt The Third: Important Inventions https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/1753433550148206696?s=20  

The memorable and noticeable events in First Turnings particularly include * Infrastruture * Exploration * Seeking out corruption, in whatever form it's expected to exist. Rebuilding St. Peter's Basilica falls under the first category, especially when it's being rebuilt for the first time in over 1000 years.     Americans learn of the founding of Jamestown as part of their country's history, as the first successful English colony in the New World and the precursor to the Thirteen Colonies that would eventually rebel against the British. It can also be looked at as the start of the British Empire, and as embodying a spirit of exploration in the aftermath of the victory over Spain.  All of which make it an appropriate instance of a First Turning landmark.    In 1714, the British Parliament approved The Longitude Prize, which offered monetary rewards to anyone who could make it possible for ships to effectively determine their longitude. The smallest prize was £10,000 - the equivalent of millions of dollars today.    The Kingdom of Great Britain was created by The Acts of Union  in 1707. Before then, one would properly refer to the English Parliament, and after to the British Parliament. This epsode crosses over that point in time between the start and the end, so the incorrect adjective may have slipped in once or twice.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1707   The Global Positioning System (GPS) might be considered a comparable sort of infrastructure, but it was created over a long enough period that associating it with a specific Turning is difficult. It also required infrastructure (namely rockets that could put satellites in orbit), and was implemented in short order once those were available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System       In 1804, Lewis and Clark's "Corps of Discovery" heads north and west from where the Missouri and Mississippi rivers meet, attempting to find a way to the Pacific Ocean. The First Turning encourages Exploration, which continues to use the governmental infrastructure set up during the previous Fourth Turning, but avoids the complications of a open warfare....   Expanding infrastructure is one of the key indicators of the First Turning, and the transcontinental railroad was an infrastructure priority for the United States in the 19th Century.     The organizational strengths and focus that enable infrastructure and exploration are not always aimed at such noble pursuits. Sometimes they find internal enemies, or at least try to seek them out. The fear of Communists infilitrating the entertainment industry led the U.S. Government to pursue a group that became known as The Hollywood Ten. As this hits the edge of the map for the First Turning, we continue on with a short description of our final historical period, the Third Turning, and how we'll be choosing our landmarks there.

Welcome to The latest for January 28, 2024\ Prompt the First: On The Growth of Stranger Danger https://x.com/_tedks/status/1742610446065000771?s=46&t=h3SDrddBzjyl2UOHr9Q3xA “Over the 20th century, mass media reporting of child abductions spread the "stranger danger" concept. From the Lindenburg baby, to milk cartons, to satanic ritual abuse, this leads to a curtailment of freedom and an increase in parental surveillance.”   Prompt the Second: Secret Invasion and Director Carter Why do I think an Agent Carter reboot - a game of cat and mouse between Carter and Zola - would work better than Secret Invasion?   Prompt the Third: On the world passing away according to St. Paul in the first letter to the Corinthians But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_to_the_Corinthians https://www.bibleref.com/1-Corinthians/7/1-Corinthians-7-31.html

This episode was originally published 3 years ago, on December 31 2020. It seems longer. This is a short summary of that year, and what the Crisis meant at that exact moment, and what we might have considered was going to come next. And yes, much of that was wrong as well. ============================== A look back at 2020, what The Crisis of 2020 might have been, and what Crisis really means, here. Unforced Errors was episode 49, and was posted in April 2020 The Crisis of 2020 was a prediction in the original book, Generations. It was used as a focus of episode 34 ("The Crisis of 2020") in January 2019, and followed up in episode 44 ("When 2020 Came Early") in October 2019.

I really wanted to review this episode and others related to the then-happening Crisis of 2020, because it's far enough out to consider if that really was the start of the peak of this current crisis or, if more is on its way.  An hour or so of reviewing what was happening at that time indicated it was not something I could through together quickly on the last day of 2023, so for now I'm going to simply repost them and let people see what was on my mind at the time. This was Episode 44, first published in November 2019, and is mostly about the Ukraine Scandal that led to Trump's first impeachment.  It seemed clear that this HAD to be what the Crisis of 2020 was going to be about...and, well, no, not really. ========================== Observing that the Crisis of 2020 appears to have begun, and what it might mean for the events and outcome of this Fourth Turning.  Anzio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Anzio Eric Fletcher Waters' body was never found, but the location of his death has been determined: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10371269/Found-the-spot-where-Pink-Floyd-musicians-father-died-in-battle.html Everyone has discussed Turkey and the Kurds, so search it out. The Glorious Revolution, Charles II and James II and all the rest, is also all out there, including frequent mentions on this podcast. The “music at the Pentagon gym” tweet: https://twitter.com/Msummerslowe/status/1188799181386850306 World War II in Real Time on Twitter - finished its first cycle in August 2017 with the surrender of Japan, then started up again two weeks later with the invasion of Poland in 1939 https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII FiveThirtyEight impeachment poll tracker. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/impeachment-polls/ And the Republican Strategy podcast episode https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fivethirtyeight-politics/id1077418457?i=1000455331767 “The Crisis of 2020 will be the time when the people of the United States decide what their values really are.” - end of the Crisis of 2020 podcast episode. Not sure if it's still applicable, but worth considering.

I really wanted to review this episode and some followups on the Crisis of 2020, because it's far enough out to consider if that really was the start of the peak of this current crisis or, if more is on its way. An hour or so of reviewing what was happening at that time indicated it was not something I could through together quickly on the last day of 2023, so for now I'm going to simply repost them and let people see what was on my mind at the time.   Spoiler alert: 2020 did, in fact, turn out to be significant, but for almost no reason that was previously expected. ============================== While Generations, the 1991 book by William Strauss & Neil Howe, was really about a model of history based on how different generations work together, or not, it implied that major events recurred on a regular and predictable basis. They specifically called out The Crisis of 2020, their term for what they expected to happen around that year, based on the age of the Boom generation, Generation X, and Millennials. What is this Crisis? What can we expect from it? Has it already started?    Obviously you would want to read Generations again if hadn’t realized we were up to the Crisis of 2020, almost.  Some Wikipedia links for the possibly comparable historical events mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Sevastopol_(1854–55) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Four_Emperors I did not mention the possibility that a focus on global warming or other environmental issues could become the main issue of the Crisis. I am cautious about that, though, because it seems likely to happen regardless of generational constellation - IF the effects become too much. Like other Earth-shattering possibilities - alien invasion, supervolcano eruption, meteor impact - that are likely to lead to a crisis period, generational analysis doesn’t tell us anything about them. Still, items such as the Green New Deal do suggest a generational effect.  The Glorious Revolution option still seems the most likely to me - as does a neo-jacobite followup from almost-secessionists who can’t quite deal with the changes in the aftermath. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobitism Not to be confused with Jacobins, who were involved in the French revolution a century later. (No link for them - I don’t want it to get confused.)     You can find me on Twitter: @generationalize and occasionally blogging at http://crisis.generationalize.com

I was thinking of this one for Christmas, but it was originally done for Easter. Still, I think it's held up well.  -------------------------------------------------------- Whenever someone asks whether the generational model works outside of modern English-speaking country, one fun example is to look at Rome and Judea in the first century A.D., from the assassination of Julius Caesar to the crucifixion of Jesus to Vespasian taking control of Judea and, then, of Rome.  Most of my research here was using Wikipedia. Here are a few of the relevant articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Beth_Horon_(66) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Four_Emperors The criteria I give for identifying the different turnings are my interpretation of Strauss & Howe theory. My Second and Third Turning criteria were  previously discussed here: http://crisis.generationalize.com/2014/03/second.html http://crisis.generationalize.com/2014/03/third.html My blog "Welcome to the Crisis" is at http://crisis.generationalize.com   Twitter: @generationalize    

  Prompt the first: The end of instagram fame My Avastars Fashion Dolls  Big (the movie) Tom Hanks - he was 31 when the movie was released. Prompt the second ; Into thin air/ into the Wild  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McCandless https://www.looper.com/1170434/everything-into-the-wild-doesnt-tell-you-about-the-true-story/ Into Thin Air: Death on Everest https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118949/ Into the Wild https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/ Green Boots died during the same period but was part of a separate expedition that wasn’t included in the movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Boots Prompt the Third On Blblical Views of Morality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen https://x.com/ordinarytimemag/status/1732015337007198603?s=46&t=h3SDrddBzjyl2UOHr9Q3xA

  Intro Olivia Rodrigo - Brutal - from Driving Home 2 U https://youtu.be/zHMpcUojLMU?si=DF7414ecqyM-1XlH Complete film (currently on Disney Plus) https://ondisneyplus.disney.com/movie/olivia-rodrigo-driving-home-2-u Prompt the First Military Generations in Star Wars - or the Admiral vs Poe Dynamic AKA Hero is  a perjorative in the 2nd turning.    Mark Hammill - born 1951 - looks properly young in return of the Jedi (1983) for a young adult in the military and in a crisis - even if he’s  still kinda old at 31 or so  A previous look at other WWII folks as shown 30 years later.  https://x.com/generationalize/status/1676480077234847745?s=46&t=h3SDrddBzjyl2UOHr9Q3xA       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars%3A_The_Last_Jedi The whole “Why aren’t you doing exactly as I asked, that’s what people did when I was your age”  - one we expect to see in a Second Turning - perfectly fits the Admiral v Poe dynamic.  My previous thoughts on The Force Awakens - I should do one for The Last Jedi. http://stories.generationalize.com/2015/12/the-force-awakens-initial.html Slightly off on that quote from Serenity. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/quotes/?item=qt0433147 A random follow-up on that: Forrest Gump is told by Jenny not to be a hero, he only becomes one because he tries to run away,   Prompt the Second Would excel being available five years earlier have kept the ussr from falling?   A record of the last 30ish years in Russia. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/11/russian-journalists-ukraine-war-wagner-group/676064/ Here's where I got what I found about spreadsheets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet     https://x.com/13millionplus/status/1728195677883351107?s=46&t=h3SDrddBzjyl2UOHr9Q3xA   The Wikipedia page references what Moore considered the point of departure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_%28TV_series%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev - the Chief Designer   Prompt the Third Why is communication - the ability to communicate- fundamental to the generational model   Irish politics are becoming incomprehensible….2nd Turning? https://twitter.com/search?q=ireland%20free%20speech&src=typed_query&f=top It involves views of free speech as elated to the murder of a young teacher, Ashling Murphy.  

A Thanksgiving episode, in its way. I thought I had written about this elsewhere, but this appears to be the closest I had done: https://crisis.generationalize.com/2014/06/plague.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osarseph - A possible second view of Exodus involving a priest who became the leader of a band of lepers, who managed to ally with the Hyksos to take over Egypt for a short time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten - Pharaoh of Egypt who temporarily replaced the polytheistic Egyptian religion with a monotheism based around Aten, the “sun disc.”  Father of Tutankhamen, whom you may have heard of.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hymn_to_the_Aten -Written by Akhenaten, it bears some resemblance to Psalm 104, indicating at least some cross pollination between Jewish and Egyptian holy writ.   https://thefounding.net/pilgrims-identified-israelites/ - a short essay built around Bradford http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24950/24950-h/24950-h.htm Project Gutenberg version of the History of Plymouth Colony They called Dutch a strange and uncouth language, which raises the possibility that their attitudes towards “savage” natives might have been similar in Holland… For no obvious reason, perhaps worth noting that this is contemporaneous with Hamlet, first performed around 1602. (Yes I know he's a Dane, not Dutch.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Colony http://mayflowerhistory.com/clothing/ https://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-kids/homework-help/what-wear   You can find me on Twitter: @generationalize and occasionally blogging at http://crisis.generationalize.com

On the occassion of President Joseph Biden's 81st birthday, re-upping some observations on the first and last Silent Generation POTUS.    (Even if he only made the Silent cutoff by about 6 weeks.) ===================================== President Joseph Biden is the first President from the Silent Generation, and presumably the last. Is that going to be a problem, here in the Fourth Turning? Perhaps not, considering how little we understand about how leaders change in the later Elder period of life. His governing style might not be the standard for how the Artist archetype is expected to manifest.   Here's the excerpt again:   “As the forces of history amass under Boom leadership, the Silent can remind Boomers of kindness, 13ers of conscience, Millenials of caution. The danger will lie in any attempt by aging Silent leaders to get too much in the way of the thickening forces of history - for example, if an eightyish President (or Supreme Court) insists on scrupulous process at a moment when younger generations begin to coalesce around the need for decisive action. The last time this happened, during the Presidency of old Compromiser James Buchanan, the foot dragging of elder Adaptives helped foment the most destructive crisis in American History. The same could occur if antiquarian Silent leadership helps usher in the Crisis of 2020.”   Neil Howe & William Strauss, Generations, published 1991, page 395 the Silent generation section of “Completing the Millennial Cycle” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_by_age Reagan's meetings with Gorbachev in the last 18 months of office.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Summit_(1987) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Summit_(1988) Mitch McConnell was born 2/20/1942, is a more definite silent, if only by a few months. Nanci Pelosi was born March 26 1940 a solid Silent  Chuck Schumer was born November 23 1950 and is a very solid Boomer…but even he is 70  The generational attributes come from Chapter 12 of Generations, the last two rows of Figure 12-7, Peer Personalities, by Generational Type