Generation X was grew up under the threat of a potential, worldwide, nuclear Holocaust at any time. A holocaust that never happened. Not yet, anyhow. What can I say, it made us a bit jaded.
Generation X, of which I'm one of the older members, was the last generation to be raised in the Industrial Age, when the factories of America were still thriving. By the time we hit our teens, and the first Millennials were being born, the factories were closing down, and we were visibly in the long transition into the emerging Information Age.
By the time the Millennials started hitting their teen years, the internet came along, and democratized communication around the world, in a way that had never happened before in human history. At that time, the earliest Gen Z kids were being born. Gen Z was born into a fully digital world, with Web 2.0 in full effect from childhood, and social media and smartphones coming along in their childhood years. Through all these last few decades, the pace of social and technological change has been steadily increasing. The power brokers of the Industrial Age world have been desperately clinging to what power they could, while the paradigm shifted around them.
There come times when the slow grind of change builds up pressure, and a major, sudden shift happens. An earthquake in society, you might say. A major inflection point.
The pace of changes becomes social inflection points when a great deal of change happens in the mentality of large numbers of people. Or changes in mentality that have already happened make themselves known. It looks like this weekend, June 13th through June 15th, 2025, will be one of those major inflection points in human society in the United States, and perhaps around the world. Pay attention kids, we are all living history this weekend, however things play out. I'm simply calling attention to the importance this weekend will play in society overall. And somehow, it all starts with a Friday the 13th. Crazy.
Here are a few songs to set the mood for what looks to be a pretty crazy weekend, one way or the other.
Blogger's Note- Monday, June 16th, 2025- It turns out that all those AR-15's owned by 2nd Amendment activists have been completely useless in preventing the drive toward authoritarianism in the United States of America.* The push by the American Right away from a constitutional democratic republic, and towards an authoritarian state, continues. Guns are useless in a war of ideas and culture. The NRA is MIA in the fight to preserve democracy. But we all knew that already.
Here are some new reports from today (6/16/2025):
And on the lighter side, here's a parody music video:
Was this weekend, June 13th-June 15th, 2025 an actual inflection point in the United States, or society as a whole? Time will tell if democracy or authoritarianism wins in the U.S., and elsewhere...
* Just for the record, I am 100% for legal gun ownership. If you own guns, you need to be a responsible gun owner.
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