I’m reviewing the four extant generations, one at a time. Here’s some insight on Boomers, now and throughout history. Text from The Fourth Turning, by intellectual powerhouses William Strauss and Neil Howe. My lightly edited version is here: We remember Prophets (today’s Boomers) best for their coming-of-age passion (the excited pitch of Jonathan Edwards, William [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘The Saeculum’
August 13, 2007
Millennials … the cycle continues
Snagged data, slightly edited. Go to the powerhouse source by Strauss and Howe to read the archetypal language and original text. Here are my gentle edits. Within the four generational archetypes, the Heroes (today’s Millennials, born 1982 – 2001/2/3?, and also known as a “civic generation”) are best remembered for their collective coming-of-age triumphs (Glorious [...]
August 10, 2007
The GenX Lifecourse, Over the Centuries
I utterly snagged and slighted edited this text from academic superstars Strauss and Howe. This info outlines the lifecourse of the generational archetype that we currently know as Gen Xers, or as The 13th Gen (born 1961 – 1981). This generation is called a Nomad Generation, and is also sometimes referred to as a “reactive [...]
