SHORT COMMUNICATIONS 284
America’s Many Generations
By
Roger Behra
The makeup of America’s culture has been classified as groups of people, and the groups start with the year 1901 which is considered the beginning of modern time in America. The groups are called generations, and there are five of them: The Dedicated, Greatest, Counterculture, Me, and Lost. As each generation formed, the American culture began the downhill roll to the low level of today. It began in year 1965.
The Dedicated Generation-the young men and women who started the new century in the New World called America. They were raised very well and had great core values. They were dedicated to the continued orderly, productive, and spiritual growth of America as the new century got under way, and they reised their children to continue those values.
The Greatest Generation- the young men and women offspring of the men and women who started the new century in 1901. They were made up of the millions of Americans who fought and died during World War 2 and helped to keep the home front functioning and producing for the war effort. All their efforts are considered the greatest in American History.
The Counterculture Generation-they are also known as the hippies. This generation was opposed to the standards of traditional society. They changed their thinking in 1965 when Washington got America involved in the war in Vietnam. Their new philosophy of life was to throw out the old and bring in the new. It did just that and ruined America’s culture to what goes on today: no spiritual values; no core social values; make up your own rules as you go along; if it feels good, do it. It became the formula for the cultural deterioration of modern times.
Me Generation-as the counterculture generation lived their philosophy, they decided to add more to it-me, me, and more me. They decided that were the most important above all else and that the world revolved around them only. You can tell in today’s American culture that addition has been working very well.
Lost Generation-this is the latest generation. They are the ones that the future of America relies on. Only 49% of them have a high school diploma. And much less then that percentage has a college degree. And now, 2011, they can’t use their education because the economy is on weak legs and gasping for a healthful and sustaining breath. College grads have to move back in with their parents in order to avoid becoming homeless. They and those with no diploma feel lost now.
Now, after forty-six year of ignoring God and the spiritual, of horrendous increases in immorality, of living by one’s own rules, the worm has finally turned against the counterculture seniors, their children, and grandchildren. Millions cannot retire and the offspring are the lost generation in a hopelessly bad economy. All was avoidable. All started in 1965 with the counterculture people. The bitter pills of prevailing justice are very hard to swallow now in 2011.
R. B.