tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post115489291212900222..comments2024-03-19T11:28:58.168-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: Crisis--and resolution?David Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-1154956874304508422006-08-07T09:21:00.000-04:002006-08-07T09:21:00.000-04:00David,While it is the Millenial generation whose s...David,<BR/><BR/>While it is the Millenial generation whose sacrifice and determination will settle the outcome of the global crisis now unfolding (making them, as you suggest, the next "greatest" generation), don't you think that it is the progressive leaders of the Boom and Gen X generations that will provide the leadership and direction in which the Millenials eventually make their contribution?<BR/><BR/>After all, the GI generation defeated fascism under the direction and leadership of the older generations of their time. Roosevelt and his cohort were idealists while Eisenhower and his were pragmatists.<BR/><BR/>The civic-minded GI generation, while deserving of praise for its youthful sacrifice, actually provided no leadership or direction to their lives' great project (and one certainly can question how "great" was their execution of the awakening era -- the Sixties -- into which they led the nation only to bungle their way through).<BR/><BR/>To me, your way of addressing this issue belittles the critical role that Boomers and Generation X have to play in the extant Crisis era. It is they who have to devise a contending line of struggle with the Neocons (the reactionary idealists) and then rally the world (and the nation) to defeat them politically (or, worst case, militarily). American and European Millenials cannot play their role until their idealist elders devise an alternative line that better conforms to historic necessity than neoconservatism...unless, that is, it is the youth of the Middle East and Muslim nations that are destined to be the "greatest" after the present global crisis is played out.<BR/><BR/>SteveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com