The Latest Generation

Trying to understand Millennials? Maybe looking at how to manage the G.I. Generation, as Chevrolet was doing in 1940, will help. An analysis of “Hired!”, where a Lost Generation manager gets advice from his father on his G.I. Generation hires.

Information about Jam Handy from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_Handy

Hired! At the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Hired1940

Also there, found a production log that says Hired! was completed in September 1940. 

https://archive.org/stream/JHOProdLog3/JHO_Prod_Log_1#page/n27/mode/2up/

Which is to say, just in time for the 1941 model year, about a year after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, and in the middle of the Battle of Britain.

IMDB links to the MST3K episodes that featured Hired:

Bride of the Monster http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0776502/

Manos the Hands of Fate http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0757564/

My blog "Welcome to the Crisis" is at http://crisis.generationalize.com  

Twitter: @generationalize    

This one actually starts from a look at how the 2016 election made people feel, and from there whether it's significant that both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are from the Boom generation.  The way people react to them may not be  because they are entitled or evil: maybe it's because that generation, like others of the Prophet archetype, has always wanted change , and the rest of society has had to deal with it. Includes comparisons to the American Civil War to see why the way people feel today might be similar to why America split into rival factions in 1860. 

The American leadership database shows  congress and other American government positions broken down by generation. It's on Strauss & Howe's lifecourse site. http://www.lifecourse.com/rdb

The American Civil War anomaly discussion comes mostly from  Strauss & Howe's Generations (1991). The idea that the large Transcendental generation came from the Era of Good Feelings first Turning was discussed on the old Fourth Turning forums. Those have been archived on the Generational Dynamics site at http://generationaldynamics.com/tftarchive/

Star Trek IV The Voyage Home (1986) was partially filmed at the then newly opened Monterey bay aquarium. They haven't ever had whales there, though.  https://www.montereybayaquarium.org

A look at how the GI generation (born 1901-1924) viewed the Boomers (born 1943-1960) as shown in the Star Trek Original Series episode "The Way to Eden" - also known as "The One with the Space Hippies."  By extension, this suggests how Hero generations, including Millennials (born 1982-~2005) along with the GIs, view Prophet generations (like the Boomers).

Originally started from how people view cleanliness today and how it is likely similar to how people saw it during World War II. It all ties together.

Attributes of the Prophet and Hero archetypes come from Generations (1991), the Peer Personalities chart on p. 365. I use them in my Stories blog (stories.generationalize.com) where I've found them an effective way to identify different generations/archetypes.

Did you know that Skip Homeier, the actor who played Dr. Sevrin,  also played Melakon, the villain in the episode "Patterns of Force" (aka "The One With the Nazis")? 

Shout-out to Memory Alpha, which had additional useful information about the timing of when the episode was written: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Way_to_Eden_(episode)

Opposition to President Trump's Chief Strategist Steve Bannon has not surprisingly included criticism of the Fourth Turning and the generational model. Herewith an attempt to respond to some of those issues, and to note what the theory has done well over the last 25 years or so.

Neil Howe identified the Global Financial Crisis as the start of the Fourth Turning in a blog post in 2012: http://blog.saeculumresearch.com/2012/03/dating-the-fourth-turning/

Steve Bannon's film "Generation Zero" can currently be found on YouTube or at www.generationzeromovie.com. 

The impact of "Generations "on Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign can be found in an interview with Dick Morris for Frontline http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/interviews/morris.html

My blog "Welcome to the Crisis" is at http://crisis.generationalize.com 

Twitter: @generationalize

The Chief Strategist and Counselor to the 45th President of the United States of America believes in The Fourth Turning. How he sees it isn't necessarily the way everyone does, though. This time, we'll take a look at his background, what his documentary Generation Zero says about generational theory, and what his interest in it might mean.

David Kaiser's Time article: http://time.com/4575780/stephen-bannon-fourth-turning/ and his blog is http://historyunfolding.blogspot.com

Generation Zero can currently be found on YouTube.

My blog Welcome to the Crisis is at http://crisis.generationalize.com

Galileo Galilei found himself facing the Inquisition in the early 17th century because of what his astronomical observations revealed about the world. The idea that the Earth moved around the Sun, though, had first been proposed nearly a century earlier, and other astronomers had made similar observations without facing the wrath of religious authorities. What does generational theory suggest was different for Galileo?

A chart with the different people involved and the years of their main contributions can be found on my blog at

http://crisis.generationalize.com/2014/12/heliocentrism.html

The Millennial generation was identified by Strauss & Howe in 1991 in their first books on generational theory, Generations. Since the first year they were born was 1982,  Strauss & Howe was making predictions about them when the oldest member was less than 10 years old. (They also coined the term "Millennial" for them, based on their including the high school class of 2000.) 

Rather than talk about cell phones or entitlements or other stereotypical Millennial traits, we'll focus on what was predicted about them twenty-five years ago. That has implications for what comes next in our current Crisis, as well.

A good starting point when looking at generational theory is the idea of the Crisis, the recurring period of major change that recurs every 80 to 100 years. If you are starting to feel like 2016 has been some odd rhyming repeat of 1860 or a random year in the 1930s, it might be helpful to know how the generational model predicted that we would be going through this now. Includes comparisons with past historical Crisis periods in order to make some educated guesses about what might happen next. 

References both Generations (1991) and The Fourth Turning (1997) by William Strauss & Neil Howe. 

Welcome to The Latest Generation, a discussion on how different generations influence current events, culture, and history.