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John J. Xenakis

The birth year range 1946-1964 for Boomers makes sense for demographic purposes, which is the business that the Census Bureau is in. But from the point of view of Generational Dynamics, it's not particularly useful. The useful question is NOT "When is the first year that babies were born after World War II?" The useful question is: "When is the first year that babies were born when they were never personally aware of and traumatized by the horrific events of World War II?" 

Generally speaking, you have to be about four years old to be aware of what's going on in the world, and so for generational theory, the earliest birth year for the Boomers is not 1946, but is 1942. Anyone born earlier (the Silent Generation) would likely have been traumatized by World War II, and anyone born later would likely not have even been aware of World War II. That's why I don't use the phrase "born after WW II" to describe the Boomers. Instead, I use the phrase "growing up after WW II." 

The Silent Generation is the one preceding the Boomers. They got that name in an interesting way. They were originally called the "Depression Babies," obviously because they were born just before or during the Great Depression of the 1930s. However, during the 1950s, Time Magazine began calling them the "Silent Generation," and the name stuck. 

The reason that Time called them the Silent Generation is because they never complained about anything. They had grown up during the Depression, they had seen their fathers, brothers and uncles die gruesomely during the war, and by the 1950s they were happy to have families, jobs, and a home with a white picket fence. They did their jobs, and worked patriotically to help rebuild the world after World War II. 

The period after a crisis war like World War II is called a "Recovery Era," since it's everybody's job to help the nation and the world recover from the war. 

The Census Bureau says that the last birth year for Boomers was 1964. Once again, that's useful for demographers, but for Generational Theory, we identify the end of the Recovery Era and the beginning of the "Awakening Era" as the beginning of social activism by Boomers, as they come of age. For us, the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is the beginning of the Awakening Era, as the first major activist event by the Boomers. As in the case of the Boomers, we subtract four years, and set 1959 as the last birth year for the Boomers and the first birth year for Generation-X. 

The children in Generation-X grew up in a world that seemed like total chaos to them. There was rioting in the streets, males were burning their draft cards, girls were burning their bras, there was streaking, there was the Summer of Love in 1967, the riots at the Democratic convention in 1968, the killing of students at Kent State University, and a vast generation gap over the Vietnam war and race and environment issues. 

DYI:  Quick comment: Kent State was a hoaxed staged event; no one shot; no one died U.S. Army Intelligence physiological operation to quell antiwar demonstrations; if you demonstrate there is possibility of being killed so don’t bother showing up!  It was smashing success antiwar demonstrations dropped off significantly.

Whereas the Boomers were pampered as children in the Baby Boom following WW II, the Gen-Xers were left mostly on their own, and were definitely not pampered. Whereas the Boomers had a stable childhood with families and parents with jobs, the Gen-Xers were surrounded by social unrest and instability. In particular, feminist organizations were telling mothers to dump their husbands, and not let the kids see their fathers, in order to get as much money as possible. So many Gen-Xers grew up with no fathers, with a chaotic personal life, and a great deal of bitterness towards the Boomer generation, whom they blamed for their misfortunes. Without fathers and with no moral compass, they had a high delinquency rate, and are one of the most jailed generation in American history. 

As I've described many times in the last 15 years, Generation-X got their revenge against their fathers by bringing about the financial crisis. In the 1990s. Gen-Xers got degrees in "Financial Engineering," and used their skills in the 2000s to knowingly create trillions of dollars' worth of fraudulent subprime mortgage backed securities, which they could sell to the parents' generation to get revenge. The result was that millions of people when bankrupt and loss their homes. 

DYI: Quick comment: Revenge against their parents and grandparents?  No!  Occam Razor [the simplest solution is the correct solution] these Gen X’er’s are nothing more than common thieves working for the plutocrats [knowing or unknowing].

The Awakening Era began in 1963 and ended in 1983. That was followed by the "Unraveling Era," where all the rules and institutions that had been implement in the 1950s to prevent another Great Depression and another World War were dismantled. This resulted in the "tech bubble" of the late 1990s and the huge "credit bubble" of the mid 2000s decade. 

The Unraveling Era was a period of opulent wealth in the hands of many people -- mainly because they went deeply into debt, and spent the money on cars, vacations, and other items of conspicuous consumption.

DYI: Quick comment: Debt delivers the appearance of opulence but when the house of debt cards falls, those debtors instantly become the new destitute class. 

The Unraveling Era begin in 1983 and ended in 2003, 58 years after the end of World War II. 2003 was the beginning of the new "Crisis Era." The birth years for the next generation, the Millennial Generation, was thus 1979 to 1999. Millennials grew during this period of opulence provided by astronomical debt, many Millennials developed the attitude that money and success could just be given to them. 

The financial crisis brought this period of opulence to an abrupt end. The Pivotal Generation, which grew up during this period, pivoted away from the Millennials and adopted that attitude that it's necessary to work had for money and success. 

DYI:  Quick comment: If true that’s great it is also known that Boomer’s are seen as workaholics as well. 

Incidentally, the name "Pivotal Generation" is only temporary. Just as the "Depression Babies" became the "Silent Generation," the Pivotal Generation will be given a new name by society at some point in the future, after they've actually accomplished something, rather than just giving press conferences in Washington.

 DYI:  This is in reference to another portion [not posted by DYI] at Generational Dynamics referring the press conferences the Z Generation is giving surrounding the fake propaganda mass shooting hoaxes; no one shot and no died events.  These young people doing the press conferences are nothing more than paid aspiring [crises] actors pimped out by their parents.  Their followers are useful Z Generation innocents.  The older followers are nothing less than useful idiots unable to see through the propaganda.

I’ve studied generational theory along with reading extensively the book Generations by Strauss and Howe.  There is value to this work as exampled by advertisers selling to certain generation’s highlighted values and morals.   However it is not the end all, be all; informing us to the point of being the masters of the universe.

I’ve read John J. Xenakis web site for many years with great interest.  As you may have guessed trepidation is in order.  Despite Xenakis extensive background in computer technology he fails constantly to see through these staged hoaxed propaganda events especially the portions delivered by Computer Generated Images [CGI].  Xenakis is either of his generation [late Silent] believing in the main stream media or hopelessly naïve.  Of course what needs to be put on the table his web site may be nothing more than propaganda delivered out of Langley [CIA].

DYI