[MD] Shouldn’t we be, like, rev ol ting?

[Heather Perella]

Marsha:
> Maybe it not a problem for everybody.  I'm using
> Eudora.  But don't 
> moan, I said I did go into the MOQ archives and copy them
> into Word.

SA:  It's not so much a sobbing moan, but more a "Ah, Man!  This sucks if I'm trying to contribute something and nobody is able to understand my posts.  That would really suck."

Marsha:
> I just didn't get to the website.  I'd do
> the same to read 
> Ham's post if I needed to, or Krimel's.

SA:  By the way, the website on the "Fourth Turning" points out that we are heading for a crisis.  They are not so much so being prophetic, they are historians and they tracked that every fourth generation in this European settled turn U.S. culture North America, Europe, and even China, goes through a crisis.  The cycle is:  awakening, unraveling, crisis, high.  This cycle corresponds with generations.  Each generation plays a part, according to these authors that wrote this in the late 1990's, in how this cycle develops.  They speak of cultural rhythms that the generations flow with.  Again, they say it is not a deterministic model they imply, they at first simply researched the different generations back to the Piligrims and some generations of the Anglo-Saxons while they were still in Europe.  That book was called "Generations".  They then noticed this cycle in the generations corresponding with historical events, so, that's when they decide to write
 a book called "Fourth Turning".  They call Generation X, Generation 13, 13 being the 13 generation that they based this cycle on.  The current generation is called Generation Millennium.  This latter generation is actually doing very well, they say.  They are a highly social generation, and as the generation 13 starts to get a new society put together during a crisis this generation millennium, as all previous generations of this cycle have done, will contribute very highly in patching up society and moving it forward after the crisis is over or on it's way out.  Look at this generation millennium with its cell phones, texting, emailing, with Twitter.com, Facebook, MySpace, etc... they are highly social, building the bonds of this society to emerge in solidarity when they are adults.  It's hard to predict any future, so, they are just basing this on the same cycle that has happened over and over in this culture.  Of course gray areas may exist.  When I
 said I was a late bloomer I was pointing this out because I found it interesting that my generation was labeled as apathetic, lazy, slackers, but it's only because we slack this culture, we've already awakened and started to live something different than this culture.  We've pragmatically worked in this culture and we see the problems first hand.  By late bloomer, I found it interesting to see this coincide with what my generation is thought as, and I'm saying nobody has seen anything yet.  We're just reaching mid-age.  If you go on that website you can find when you we're born and see what they have to say about your generation and what they are like (decided by what your generation has done).  Again, we may find reflections in all of these generations in ourselves, but it was an interesting point of view that reminded that we do have generations here.

SA