The "Generation Jones" meme is bouncing around again, making people feel much better about themselves. But is the concept vaguely true? And what is the one thing that decade has in common?
I really enjoyed this, as I enjoy all that I listen too and watch. The late 50’s chart matches up w mine to a T being born in February 1958, Aries rising. As far as life was for me in the early 60’s, I do remember JFK, MLK and RFK being assassinated and watching the news on our black n white tv. Loss of innocence, Vietnam and the start of awareness and fear peering over our shoulders but being able to just go out and play, meet your friends outside, listening for my dad’s piercing whistle to signal for me to come home. Really missing all those great tv shows tho back then, Laugh In, Andy Williams, Smithers Brothers, later on All in the Family. Side note, I WANT MY MTV.
Ah, the Fourth Turning. I have that book, didn't get much past the first chapter.
TV indeed!
This is the first time I've ever seen a chart being drawn and explained.
Exposing kids to TV before they can read. Parents who follow Montessori method, do not expose them to TV, and the books they read to them are only about real things.
No dinosaurs, no flying superheroes, no blue bunnies or unicorns.
The school Rudolph Steiner started, the Waldorf Schools, are into Gnomes. Lots of their books are about Gnomes. Dr. Thomas Cowan lived in a Waldorf Community, and practiced pediatrics there. Did you know Rudolph Steiner had no children?
Makes you wonder.
My grands watched TV from 12 months old. The kinds of things they talk about and think about are disjointed in a way I can't explain, especially the last one cause he watched all the shows the 2 older ones watch, Paw Patrol, and Pokeman, and crappy and twisted Disney stuff.
It has stunted their natural imagination, and caused them to not understand the world properly.
The TV Generation 1954-1980's
Television makes people grow up too fast and also makes them have illusions about reality.
A quick look at Thoreau's Wiki page - the first 3 paragraph sounds like a lot of people in our current time. What he was for, what he was against.
"The American author John Updike said of the book, "A century and a half after its publication, Walden has become such a totem of the back-to-nature, preservationist, anti-business, civil-disobedience mindset, and Thoreau so vivid a protester, so perfect a crank and hermit saint, that the book risks being as revered and unread as the Bible." - Revered & unread! Ha.
The environmental movement - a good idea in theory - has destroyed our environment, and
has empowered control freaks to dictate to us, they've manipulated human & animal populations, caused the death of millions of animals, ruined Yellowstone (see Alstin Chase books) and has eliminated common sense completely.
Read any of Elizabeth Nickson substack articles. She has real world experience with these people.
I really enjoyed this, as I enjoy all that I listen too and watch. The late 50’s chart matches up w mine to a T being born in February 1958, Aries rising. As far as life was for me in the early 60’s, I do remember JFK, MLK and RFK being assassinated and watching the news on our black n white tv. Loss of innocence, Vietnam and the start of awareness and fear peering over our shoulders but being able to just go out and play, meet your friends outside, listening for my dad’s piercing whistle to signal for me to come home. Really missing all those great tv shows tho back then, Laugh In, Andy Williams, Smithers Brothers, later on All in the Family. Side note, I WANT MY MTV.
Great analysis!
Susan Hopkinson mentioned you on her channel post today! She put in a nice plug for you!
Deborah
This is so great in more ways than one!
Ah, the Fourth Turning. I have that book, didn't get much past the first chapter.
TV indeed!
This is the first time I've ever seen a chart being drawn and explained.
Exposing kids to TV before they can read. Parents who follow Montessori method, do not expose them to TV, and the books they read to them are only about real things.
No dinosaurs, no flying superheroes, no blue bunnies or unicorns.
The school Rudolph Steiner started, the Waldorf Schools, are into Gnomes. Lots of their books are about Gnomes. Dr. Thomas Cowan lived in a Waldorf Community, and practiced pediatrics there. Did you know Rudolph Steiner had no children?
Makes you wonder.
My grands watched TV from 12 months old. The kinds of things they talk about and think about are disjointed in a way I can't explain, especially the last one cause he watched all the shows the 2 older ones watch, Paw Patrol, and Pokeman, and crappy and twisted Disney stuff.
It has stunted their natural imagination, and caused them to not understand the world properly.
The TV Generation 1954-1980's
Television makes people grow up too fast and also makes them have illusions about reality.
A quick look at Thoreau's Wiki page - the first 3 paragraph sounds like a lot of people in our current time. What he was for, what he was against.
"The American author John Updike said of the book, "A century and a half after its publication, Walden has become such a totem of the back-to-nature, preservationist, anti-business, civil-disobedience mindset, and Thoreau so vivid a protester, so perfect a crank and hermit saint, that the book risks being as revered and unread as the Bible." - Revered & unread! Ha.
The environmental movement - a good idea in theory - has destroyed our environment, and
has empowered control freaks to dictate to us, they've manipulated human & animal populations, caused the death of millions of animals, ruined Yellowstone (see Alstin Chase books) and has eliminated common sense completely.
Read any of Elizabeth Nickson substack articles. She has real world experience with these people.
Thanks again Eric...really cool. Grain of salt.
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/all-species-are-thriving-but-man
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/where-the-bee-sucks-there-suck-i
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/how-green-activists-destroyed-americas
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/just-how-much-land-has-been-saved-a06