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>>13203076

Nope. Gen Z (who are actually something like 2004/2005 onward, not late 90s like a lot of brainlets are asserting) are an Adaptive gen. They'll side with Millennials early in life, then gradually join the revolt against them when Millennials' children -- the new boomers, an Idealist gen -- come-of-age. They'll be sensitive negotiators, compromisers. THEIR children will be a Reactive gen who will grow up unprotected and forgotten, becoming fiercely individualistic and mercenary, chafed by an unraveling, narcissistic culture new Boomers initiated. You Gen Xers are analogs of the Lost Generation before you. Millennials are an echo of the Greatest Gen. Zoomers will find their predecessors in the Silent Generation.

Strauss-Howe were visionary. In 1991 they predicted the next huge secular crisis occurring around 2020, it looks like we're well on-track.

>>11986706
>40 yr old boomer here.
you were born in 1978 which makes you gen-x. you're neither meme boomer nor actual boomer

http://www.lifecourse.com/about/method/timelines/generations.html

>>11097715

According to the Strauss-Howe generational theory, Boomers are an uncompromising Idealist generation who revolt against their fathers (G.I.s, Silents) and assert new values for society. They come-of-age during a new spiritual Awakening ('60s "Consciousness Revolution") and reach seniority in the midst of a secular Crisis they helped created.

Gen X is a Reactive generation, which means they've been made ultra-pragmatic, cynical, and jaded by a society that has cast them aside. They were too young to appreciate the last Awakening and will be too young to be the elder leaders during the coming Crisis. They were largely left to fend for themselves as children. They are middle men of history, like the Lost Generation before them, but their clear-eyed disillusionment will be a useful aid to the Boomers leading us through the Crisis and the Millennials in the trenches.

Millennials are a Civic generation. That makes them conformist, constructive, secular, and collectivist. Civics are pampered in childhood and youth, and come-of-age in the midst of a Crisis. They often have stronger relationships with their fathers, Boomers and early Gen Xers, than with their mothers. (Idealists like Boomers often have stronger relationships with their mothers than their fathers.) Millennials will follow inspirational Boomer leaders to the death and conquer the Crisis, instilling them with a sense of lifelong confidence. They will rebuild institutions in the aftermath and establish more rigid social roles according to the newly-prevailing set of values. In middle-age they will be confronted with a new spiritual Awakening from their Idealist sons and daughters, who will rebel against their conformist society. Eventually due to their overconfidence they will begin to overreach, and make embarrassing or disastrous mistakes. (Think of the G.I.'s leadership through Vietnam.) They will remain active and optimistic throughout their elderhood.