I hope I am around long enough to see how the generation after Generation Z responds to all of the "special snowflakes" and the busybodies who make it their business to bust strangers' chops for comments they perceive as factually-wrong, sexist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, transphobic, disrespectful or they simply do not like.
It used to be that if two people were having a conversation, a third person butting-in was considered eves-dropping. Eves-droppers were considered creeps who were invading other's privacy.
My hope is that the next generation repudiates the abuses of the snowflakes rather than piles it on higher and deeper.
We saw something similar in the generation that followed hippies and flower-power with Gordon Gekko's "Greed is Good" which captured the pushing away from leaching off the previous generation and making your own pile of dough.
It is human nature to assume that the values of OUR generation are the absolute pinnacle of human evolution that that our selfies will be used in textbooks two-hundred years from now as examples of what we should strive to be.
It is also human nature that the next generation vigorously rejects the abuses of those values. Typically, people who came-of-age when that generation peaked are crushed when their cherished beliefs are pitched onto the ash-heap of history.
If any readers can point to some readable essays on how the generation after China's Cultural Revolution responded to the CCR I would appreciate it. Also, essays on how a common Frenchman might have pivoted after the French Revolution, I will be grateful.
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ReplyDeleteERJ, when I was in graduate school, we had an older chinese man who lived through that time. Lao Ye (Lao was apparently an honorific, as in "Mr") was a very kind older man. He referenced the Cultural Revolution once or twice but never really spoke about it in discussions where the post-Mao era was brought up.
ReplyDeleteThe errors will get remedied when the impacts of them are fully felt by those that have to live with the impacts and outcomes of those earlier decisions.
At my first engineering job out of college in the late 1990s I met Mr. Wu, our quality manager at a large manufacturing plant. He was in his 70s by then and his family had escaped during the worst of it.
ReplyDeleteWhat triggered the discussion at all was when China was granted most favored nation status by the WTO (after some hefty Clinton campaign donations). This infuriated Mr. Wu. He railed that there was no way China's human rights, labor laws, nor environmental laws were worthy of WTO most favored nation status.
I was born in Dec,54,,and Not at all interested in history, but I was shocked at that decision. Since it was done and Not at all a reasonable thing to do, seems to me that is another clue that our government has been taken over. It's NOT a new thing. The Federal Reserve is a good indicator that nefarious forces have been deeply embedded into the framework for a long time.
DeleteWild Swans by Jung Chang is a good if somewhat emotional overview of China during the 20th Century viewed through the eyes of three women from the same family.
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