Beginnings: Generational Configuration
I. Beginnings Generational Configuration
The Generational configuration that has so dominated our lives over the last twenty five years is, however, near an end. This reality represents the central social, political and economic fact of our time. All of the major issues that confront our country today relate, one way or another, to the great demographic change about to overtake America as it moves inexorably into the next millennium. Only when we understand the nature of this imminent demographic change is it possible to understand the dimension of the problem we face over the next five years. Generational Change No one has ever read anything like The Millennial Files. Nothing like The Millennial Files has ever been written before. Not until now has has it been possible to combine the knowledge base and the insight with the technology of the WWW to produce such an undertaking. If you are under fifty, you have come of age in an era in which the truth has been increasingly held hostage to cynical self interest. The purpose of The Millennial Files is to tell you the truth for the first time in your lives. Toward the Third Millennium This is your world in which we grow, Through ignorance of the past, too many of us have been taught to fear the future. We are held hostage to a history that was not of our doing and programmed to accept a future not of our choosing. If we follow after those who are shamed by the past and who fear the future, we will never venture out of the dark cave of the present and will live out shadowed lives of quiet desperation. We are here to show and to tell you that the 21st Century and the Third Millennium are yours, are all of Ours, to shape as we wish. No longer need we be continually acted upon by external events. We can be the very agents of history we choose to be. Strauss and Howe In their work, Strauss and Howe gave to each of the generations whose collective actions comprise the story of the United States an individual name. The names given each of the generations clearly reflects the unique place in American history occupied by each cohort group. The authors go on, in fact, to place the activities of these generations within the context of overriding historical cycles, beginning with the Pre-Colonial Age and continuing down to the now ending Great Power Era. Each of these eras are viewed by Strauss and Howe as distinct historical epochs. mmm A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents, but ratherbecause its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. - Max Planck Paradigm for the New Millennium Our new model makes it possible to see where contemporary America stands in relation to its own economic past, and it also explains why the United States has experienced the type of problems that have beset the nation over the last twenty years. But even more importantly, this model allows us to see what must be done to solve the accumulated problems of the last two decades, and frees us to create the future of our choosing. The Past, the Present, the Future |
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