Monday, September 25, 2017

When Millennials Realize They Have the Numbers

The boundless profligacies of a corrupt system entirely alienated large numbers of Millennials and that's not a tale of despair since they know they have the numbers to do something about it.  I'm drunk on the Future after Seraphin stood in front of me where he was filled with optimism and exemplified what Millennials have come to be.  Once they were the children but not anymore.  They know their strength and it is growing.


I talked with Cadillac Man a bit earlier and he was highly disparaging of the job we did as Boomers.  My own thinking was to do the best job I could and others would do the same in their jobs with the ideal result in this being the best way to get it all done.  It was much the same with Cadillac Man since he was good at his job in the same way.  We knew after a time a number of members from the Boomer cadre, particularly those with political intent, were not doing that and we never found a way to counter them to effect truly positive change.

Zen Yogi:  at least your generation gave them Saran Wrap

I'm sure they will revere that gift through the Ages, mate.

CM:  it's much more likely that our parents invented Saran Wrap since Boomers were still too young when it came to market

Zen Yogi:  parents of the Boomers also handed you the immediate threat of nuclear war!

They had their Bad Eggs as well and looking for pure perfection in them is no more sensible than looking for it anywhere else other than metaphysical sources or music.

Zen Yogi:  also orchids

It's true they're living music in Botany but we don't want to try to get poetic with it just yet.

The WWII generation, just as with we Boomers, built systems (i.e. CIA, etc) which got out of control to become threats rather than adjuncts to peace and that was precisely the last thing that generation wanted to do after enduring WWII.  They were the Millennials during that war and my ol' Dad turned eighteen in late '41 or '42.  He adamantly rejected the military use of nuclear power but, just as with Boomers, their strength wasn't enough to make them stop as it grew after the war.


Millennials see clearly the mendacity and columniation from the dark forces and their rejection of those influences is the strongest step they can make toward actualizing the entirety of their dreams which we know already are big ones and have nothing to do with war.  Seraphin was a little chagrined when I repeated the 60s mantra, never trust anyone over thirty.  Seraphin hasn't reached that point yet but he's on the last rung.  I suggested they need to raise the limit up to, say, fifty or whatever age people often lose their minds relative to the original dreams.


My own view gives Boomers a little better rap than Cadillac Man since, along with the most progressive of our Elders, we did give the world computers.  Nothing of that nature had been seen before and that Revolution was real.  That too was subverted by those with bad intent but they have never managed to subvert all of it.  Through those computers we find unity now and that's the last purpose of those with malignant plans.

CM:  we also gave them hyperlinks

That's true and they were another Revolution since the concept had never existed previously regarding any dynamism in text and yet hyperlinks permitted instant references and extensions to any written thought thereby extending its power enormously.  That exemplifies the general notion from Chomsky that we are the language we use.  Language, one of the most primal skills known by humans, underwent a substantial evolution far beyond anything which had come before.


Mostly I agree with CM that we as Boomers didn't do such a laudatory job of things but we weren't total failures and the Big Dreams never died.  It wouldn't surprise me if many from the WWII generation also had thoughts of their failure regarding things which got out of control just as Boomers do now.

Legba:  nothing ever turns out as good as you want it to be, bluesman.  You know that.

Ref:  "Crossroads" starring Ralph Macchio and Joe Seneca.

Legba is right but the Boomer Lament is much more that we never thought various things could turn out so badly.  However, CM, I doubt the Lament is much worse than that of the WWII generation after coming up with nuclear weapons systems and leaving them to us.

The self-effacing regret of Boomers of the Dreamer variety is much more affectation than warranted since most of us really don't make up such a bad lot.  Perhaps some of the self-effacement is due to the additional regret that it's necessary to turn things over to Millennials but I have seen Seraphin over the last few days in a much brighter light and I have no fears of their dreams; I only want to see them happen.


Turning over the Galaxy Guitar and Ithaka to Seraphin is my individual symbol of the time it is necessary to stop telling Millennials since it's much more the time to listen to them and I welcome it.  A time which would predictably be called a loss becomes an immense gain since now I have a much better view of a Future which was not previously visible any other way.  The Future they want is a beautiful one so climb onboard since they will be going to wonderful places.

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