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A couple of weeks ago I did some psychohistorical reflecting about the next decade, and decided it should be called the Searing Twenties. The mood and energy I’m sensing is a darker, rougher version of the Roaring Twenties a century ago.
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I have named the coming decade The Searing Twenties. Like the Roaring 20s a century ago, except it will involving a lot of burning and scorching.
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Co-opting whatever Rob has to say here into my thread and definition of Searing Twenties, since he’s a Strauss-Howe expert and wrote the book Generation Blend 😎
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To complete your analogy, the "Searing 20s" actually began in 2017, when the country, exhausted from 8 years of a polarizing, idealistic crusading President, embraced instead a morally-lax businessman pledging a return to simplicity. A financial boom kicked off... 1/x
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So our rough framework for Searing Twenties: strong rhyme with 1920s, weaker rhyme with 1940s, Strauss-Howe generational analysis off by 20y. Some basic inferences.
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Gen X is nominally in charge in most leadership positions. We are mostly past creative peak unlike the Losts, so a weak artistic boom of mature works may be expected. It’ll be nothing like Hemingway etc but we’ll do our mediocre best at both the art and lame duck leadership.
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In that sense, it's more like the late 40s when the Losts were our age, roughly... lots of superficial prosperity masking a very hard-edged and intolerant society, not much moral leadership. The Noir Age, if you like.
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