By Strauss-Howe though, the rhyme is off. The Lost Generation was a nomad generation like Gen X, while Millennials are a Hero generation like the Greatest (WW2). So either we blend in a different decadal analogy (1940s) or drop Strauss-Howe. Let’s blend! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss–Howe_generational_theory …
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Rob Salkowitz
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
https://twitter.com/robsalk/status/1211090905794404352?s=21 …https://twitter.com/robsalk/status/1211090905794404352 …Venkatesh Rao added,
Rob Salkowitz @robsalkReplying to @vgrTo 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/x1 reply 0 retweets 6 likesShow this thread -
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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Millennials have the context share with Lost but not the generational personality, but are at peak ability. What can we expect? Not art but Institution building, like Greatest Generation during/after WW2. They’ve already done a bunch but things are only now really starting.
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But the institutions won’t be like post-WW2 ones, built by the stridently confident victors of a world war working with a bombed-blank slate and booming economy. They’ll have some of the searching, exploratory, experimental qualities of Lost Gen art. Starships, not Citadels.
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Zoomers are analogous to the Silent Generation: grew up in a traumatized decade (Great Depression vs Great Weirding) so will form the new Organization Man type within Millennial institutions. Premium mediocre starships on the outside, domestic cozy communes on the inside.
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That's a misreading. The Silents were not "organization men." That was the Veterans, who were old enough to have a stake. The Silents were the most progressive, disruptive generation in US history, though most of their accomplishments are credited to young Boomers.
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Depends on which end you’re talking about though doesn’t it? Someone born in 1930 would have grown up through depression and war and joined the workforce around 1950 just a few years before William Whyte did his org-man studies. They’d be early career.
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Examples include Martin Luther King, Bobby & Teddy Kennedy, Bob Dylan, John Coltrane, Gloria Steinem, Philip Roth, Aretha Franklin, Mohammed Ali. Tell me this was a generation of conformists...
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In that list, I forgot to mention the most influential and highest ranking genuinely progressive officeholder in the US right now, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg!
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