Let us remember, or at least consider …
Each generation is an ARCHETYPE (there are only four). Each generation has a specific type of childhood during a specific type of era, or societal mood; each generation has its own experience of adult-generated deficiencies and excesses that it wants to balance and correct; each generation sees itself as the ONLY one that can correct the imbalances it perceives; each generation receives gifts that specifically help them do just that … and each generation, in time, creates the PROBLEMS (the excesses and deficiencies) another generation after it (its shadow generation) then perceives as needing to fix and rebalance.
For example, Millennials when in midlife (mid 40s to mid 60s) will collectively and collaboratively create a New Golden Age, where modernity, function, middle class, collegial governance, science that’s trusted and a host of other things work great!
But their archetype’s children (the next Boomers) will grow up finding all the focus on progress, building and institutional efficacy to be soul-crushing and lacking in morals, thus creating the perfect environment for the next Great Awakening as the Boomer-like kids (born starting around 2028 + 20-22 years) will create as they start to come of age.
It’s a cycle.
Ain’t no generation better than another. We’re all born at different times, with different challenges and different gifts.
And we (the collective thing called our generation) all are born, grow, mature, die. We leave legacies and societal endowments unique to our generation’s archetype.
Prophets – Boomers – Vision, values, morals
Nomads – GenX – liberty, honor, survival.
Heroes – Millennials – community, affluence, and technology
Artists – Those born 2005+20/22 years – pluralism, expertise, and due process.
