Forum Post: A Chance to Become America's "Greatest Generation?"
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 20, 2011, 12:43 p.m. EST by Tujay
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If we look at the economic patterns between the classes of today and that of the Roaring Twenties to the Great Depression, we will find many similarities.
I am excited about the possibilities of this movement. I participated in a peaceful demonstration the other week where we were able to get the bank to call our homeowners and renegotiate their mortgage to avoid foreclosure. Joined by a thousand others, I definitely felt heard for the first time.
I woke up today facing a brighter future. We face today an America that is waking up to the economic realities of today, willing to admit the mistakes that have been made, and ready to take the steps necessary to change them. We have the opportunity here to slow the tide of blaming each other and start on the path to a greater civil discourse.
Thoughts?
No way. The WW2 generation has a lock on that.
We can't afford "a lack of change, stagnation" if we are to survive, this century according to some will be critical, Club of Rome advocates say that we have only one or two more decades to make a drastic change, a human revolution, not only a political one
We already are the greatest Generation, Now we have to prove it!
Yes, how? What is considered "great," vs. just plain old goodness?
Every generation is defined in the context of the political and social atmosphere in which they were raised. Your generation's greatness is determined by your response to that atmosphere and how you change it.
The context you live in now is a world whose inhabitants are already too concerned with how they look rather than who they are and what they did. Get me? We've wasted enough time convincing ourselves we look "great" while the world is actually falling down around us.
My advice to you is not to aim for some definition of greatness. Just do the work. Make your world one you want to live in, and let history deal with judgments of greatness.