The Latest Generation

An insight that's less about the generational model of history and more about history itself: Everyone chooses what version of the story they want to hear, and adjust what they include or exclude to fit, as well as they can.

Branagh's: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116477/

Olivier's: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040416/

Someone else’s complaint about the fourth act soliloquy in Branagh

https://www.shakespeareflix.net/2015/04/the-hills-are-alive-and-spur-my-dull.html

Check back to Episode 20: Bob Newhart, JFK, and Hamlet for another version of how Hamlet could be viewed.

Getting sick isn't what it used to be, and the true return of Normalcy, no doubt, will be when being sick isn't that big of a deal.

Does normalcy mean thinking, again, about what you really want to do with your life?

Tom Tomorrow's tweet:

https://twitter.com/tomtomorrow/status/1452299137840472064?s=20

The Homeland generation was born starting in 2005 - but what does it mean? Why Homeland? And are they really quite what Strauss & Howe predicted they would be? 

It does seem about right.

That tweet I mentioned is here:

https://twitter.com/generationalize/status/1432384151143944197?s=20

There's no separate Wikipedia entry for The Rocket Man, and in fact my copy is in R is For Rocket, but Wikipedia says it was first published in The Illustrated Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man

http://afterthemillennials.com/its-official-the-white-house-calls-them-homeland-generation/

Couldn't find a way to include this but: The Rocket Man is set in, well, right about now, since the titular character was  “a boy in 1997” and the narrator is mentioned as being fourteen years old, so it’d be quite reasonable to think that he was born about ten years after the father was a boy, and …yeah. It’s not a tumultuous world, so would seem to be after a Crisis like we have now.

Also, the story is only 10 pages long. It fits a lot in there.

Normalcy means returning to the office. Shouldn't be a big deal. But it is, and it's fair to acknowledge it.

Robert Heinlein, b. 1907, of the G.I. generation, frequently looked at gender - perhaps not too deeply, but in a way that may indicate why openness to changing gender roles may be about attributes of Hero generations, like the G.I.s and the Millennials. 

Thoughts on twenty years in Afghanistan and other situations where twenty years makes a difference in how one thinks about something.

A look back at the Jacobites of 18th Century England, and potential parallels to the near-future of American politics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobitism

The end of the Jacobite era, almost 60 years after the the Glorious Revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobite_rising_of_1745 

A coincidental parallel: Because of the Rising of 1745, "45" was sometimes one of those subtle symbols used to represent Jacobites.

Bonnie Prince Charlie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Edward_Stuart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Culloden

So one problem with talking about the Jacobites is that people naturally get them confused with the Jacobins. Two very different groups, different countries, different turnings even. The Jacobins - not at all the subject here - were from the French Revolution. They took their name from the Jacobin of monks So, late 18th century France, not early 18th century England.

This started as an acknowledgement that Normalcy doesn't mean what it used to, and turned into a realization that maybe people talking about how angry they are that mask mandates are back is the first step in ... whatever comes next.

A look at how the generational model might be useful in foreign policy - what interactions with other countries might be most beneficial, given that they are going through generational changes?

Mostly looking at the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia, but finding some options that seem generally useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_and_Eastern_Bloc_defectors - fully 45 are in the period between 1959 and 1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Stalinization

""noted that his counterparts were obsessed with the historical parallel between 1941 and 1983. " - Able Archer 83 

https://www.airspacemag.com/space/apollo-why-the-soviets-lost-180972229/

“While NASA was a centralized, top-down system run by the federal government, the Soviet space program acted more like a socialist version of a competitive market. ”

https://www.space.com/10764-soviet-moon-rocket-secrets-revealed.html