*That* Generation’s Last Stand!

This is why I removed some of my photos in my articles. https://medium.com/illumination/people-are-being-sued-for-using-creative-commons-images-adc5c8ba1491

The generational crisis point is now, here, today!

When I worked at the Senior Center, in Tallahassee, Florida, in the late 80s, I realized, even then, that there are *two* generation gaps.

The first one is the “standard” generation gap, the gap between the 60-year-olds and the 30-year-olds.

How many people realize, though, that there are *two* generation gaps and this second one is biting us all hard! On the Veteran’s Day weekend, a few years ago, I read an opinion piece in the paper. A lady was writing about her father, a World War I veteran. She wrote that he is now biased, bigoted, and in your face-with-anger over the younger generation accepting gays and race equalities. She then wrote an “apology” for him. Back then, he was on the front lines and if you thought for yourself, you might die within minutes! You found someone with *Authority* and you followed him, no matter what his beliefs were. “Change” was seen as a sign of a grave weakness, and that you broke before you bent to any change. You basically, in your youth, decided what was real, and then you would hold this belief until you died. She further wrote that “he saved civilization for you all, so now just let him be the way he is until he dies”! He will not now change.

*that* man, versus the baby boomers, is the “second generation gap”!

These older people, mostly men, are called, at their best, “the last great generation”!

Here is that Crisis, folks. These people, now in their 50s, 60s, and beyond, were all born from about 1935 to 1965, or so. A few younger men still hold the same views as probably they were raised by very conservative parents. Those years, from about the 30s until maybe about the late 60s, were very conservative. “The Psychology of Adjustment” was the most popular book on self-help, then. You adjusted and adapted *to* life; you did not try to change the world or yourself.

The crisis is that now most of our leaders are men of this age! Politics and business. Who runs the show in the CEO boardrooms?

[not all of these aged men are conservative, of course. I am writing about a generalized observation, about many of these people.]

The baby boomers began to arrive in the middle 40s. Today this younger generation[s] are more awake [woke] to more liberal ideas. The older, but ruling, generation want to hold the line and I suspect that these older men fear that they are the very last of their kind thus they really *want* to resist the younger generational ideas. [many consider, for example, the Blacks to be Objectively a race that should never mingle with the whites. Objective as land *is* and water is wet and sugar is sweet. For many, they tie their very identity up with judgments like this!]

The 75+-year-old man, here in my senior residence, this month, actually told me, when I asked him a conversational opener question, “what do you think of Trump”, something which blew my socks off! He said to me, in great, deep, profound, feeling tones, “I *adore* Trump. He is the greatest man that ever could possibly be”!

See?! Here is someone with a value system nearly more “alien” to you, with your liberal attitudes, than even a “real” alien could be, from another planet!

A *really* different view contrasting with nearly every one of this current generation!

I did not dare ask him why he adores Trump! I might someday if I am “brave” enough!

So. We are on the front lines of this great culture war. Our “World War III”!

It is a war. And interesting too that the race issues, the virus issues, and most contemporary other corporate and political issues, are only symptoms, as I see it, of this War of the generations! This generation conflict is bringing up most of our social issues to our awareness, big time!

“No” versus “yes”!