What do Eric Burdon, Dylan, Baez, Jagger, Lennon, McCartney, Charlie Watts, Ringo Starr, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Phil Ochs - I could go on and on, but that's more than enough to make my point - all have in common ?
'Besides singing that God-damned caterwaul music ???? -Turn it DOWN NOW !!!!'
Yeah, besides that.
Well they are all - we are told by lots of historians who shall remain unnamed - members of The Silent Generation (1927-1943) so unlike us loud 'n' lively Boomer Generation types.
All the leaders of my boomer generation were musicians and they almost all born during WWII's uptick in babies while remaining too young to be able to share in 1945's collective glow of modernist self-satisfaction.
These guys were loud - in their singing, drumming and in their opinions and their dress.
They were part of us, first as part of the same long baby boom.
And that remains true, even if these early boomers remained unrecognized as such by lazy postwar journalists .
They all much preferred to peddle a 'nudge nudge' story of horny dad coming home from years overseas in 1946 and making lots and lots of whoopee.
They were also part of us, as part of the post -1945 Transitional Generation, and that is in fact why they felt so compelled to sing and say what they did.
But 'silent' ? Never !
And they say historians have no sense of humour ...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Monday, January 19, 2015
"Transitional Generation" : too young to remember WWII, old enough to remember the Sixties - but above all, a child of the Fifties
In most of the world that had a baby boom, it began after 1941 and it began tailing off after 1959.
My postwar "Transitional Generation" - by sheer coincidence - shares that time period with the actual baby boomers - because we find the Transitional Generation effect even in countries where there was in fact no noticeable baby boom.
But consider this : all these boomers and transitionalists share at least one thing - maybe even only one thing - in common.
For even someone born in early 1941 is still "a child of the Fifties" (age 9) in 1950, just as a baby at the other end, born in late 1959, is at least technically still "a child of the Fifties".
Someone born in 1937 (a teenage in 1950), or someone born in 1960, can't ever share that fact with this cohort.
A shared Fifties childhood - rather than experiencing the very occasionally turbulent Sixties and Seventies with many other age groups - might be the key bond and glue for this large body of current humanity...
My postwar "Transitional Generation" - by sheer coincidence - shares that time period with the actual baby boomers - because we find the Transitional Generation effect even in countries where there was in fact no noticeable baby boom.
But consider this : all these boomers and transitionalists share at least one thing - maybe even only one thing - in common.
For even someone born in early 1941 is still "a child of the Fifties" (age 9) in 1950, just as a baby at the other end, born in late 1959, is at least technically still "a child of the Fifties".
Someone born in 1937 (a teenage in 1950), or someone born in 1960, can't ever share that fact with this cohort.
A shared Fifties childhood - rather than experiencing the very occasionally turbulent Sixties and Seventies with many other age groups - might be the key bond and glue for this large body of current humanity...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
9.5 Theses about climate DENIERS
It is hard to nail something up , on the internet , but here it goes anyway :
(1) I believe - as a percentage - more Protestants than Catholics deny human climate change and that they do so more vehemently.
(2) I believe - as a percentage - more people of Anglo-Saxon (sic) origins deny human climate change than do people of other ethnic origins.
(3) I believe - as a percentage - more males than females strongly deny human climate change.
(4) I believe - as a percentage - more better off people than poorer people vehemently deny human climate change.
(5) I believe - as a percentage - that more native born citizens than immigrants , strongly deny human climate change.
(6) I believe - as a percentage - more people with some post secondary education deny strongly human climate change than do people with either high school or less education or those with post-graduate education.
(7) I believe - as a percentage - people who deny human climate change dislike immigration, minorities, disabled, women and gay rights, more so than do non-deniers.
(8) I believe - as a percentage - more deniers than non-deniers believe super powers should 'go it alone' rather than first helping to assemble a coalition of allies bound by a common goal.
That instead they prefer to use their nationally-exclusive super weapons against the enemy, like some WWII comic book super hero, sailing above community, democracy and the rule of law.
Which is to say, far more adult deniers than non-deniers still believe it was Captain America and not Joe and Willie that actually won WWII.
(9) I believe - that as a percentage - more whites, than non-white , deny human climate change.
(9.5) I believe - as a percentage - that more climate change deniers prefer the Fifties to the Sixties than do non-deniers.
And that the more widely read among the deniers secretly yearn for the halcyon days of pre-1939, when Anglo Saxon empires and Anglo Saxon eugenics and Anglo-Saxon scientism still ruled the world.
Which is to say that human climate change isn't really the issue for them.
It is but a 'rally around the wagons' symbol.
A last ditch battle to decide whether anyone or anything (be it a minority group, a gender or Mother Nature herself) can ever impose any limits on a traditional ruling group to do what ever it wants, where ever it wants, when ever it wants, for as much as it wants ....
(1) I believe - as a percentage - more Protestants than Catholics deny human climate change and that they do so more vehemently.
(2) I believe - as a percentage - more people of Anglo-Saxon (sic) origins deny human climate change than do people of other ethnic origins.
(3) I believe - as a percentage - more males than females strongly deny human climate change.
(4) I believe - as a percentage - more better off people than poorer people vehemently deny human climate change.
(5) I believe - as a percentage - that more native born citizens than immigrants , strongly deny human climate change.
(6) I believe - as a percentage - more people with some post secondary education deny strongly human climate change than do people with either high school or less education or those with post-graduate education.
(7) I believe - as a percentage - people who deny human climate change dislike immigration, minorities, disabled, women and gay rights, more so than do non-deniers.
(8) I believe - as a percentage - more deniers than non-deniers believe super powers should 'go it alone' rather than first helping to assemble a coalition of allies bound by a common goal.
That instead they prefer to use their nationally-exclusive super weapons against the enemy, like some WWII comic book super hero, sailing above community, democracy and the rule of law.
Which is to say, far more adult deniers than non-deniers still believe it was Captain America and not Joe and Willie that actually won WWII.
(9) I believe - that as a percentage - more whites, than non-white , deny human climate change.
(9.5) I believe - as a percentage - that more climate change deniers prefer the Fifties to the Sixties than do non-deniers.
And that the more widely read among the deniers secretly yearn for the halcyon days of pre-1939, when Anglo Saxon empires and Anglo Saxon eugenics and Anglo-Saxon scientism still ruled the world.
Which is to say that human climate change isn't really the issue for them.
It is but a 'rally around the wagons' symbol.
A last ditch battle to decide whether anyone or anything (be it a minority group, a gender or Mother Nature herself) can ever impose any limits on a traditional ruling group to do what ever it wants, where ever it wants, when ever it wants, for as much as it wants ....
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- Michael Marshall
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- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...