Monthly Archives: April, 2012
A New Generation Debuts: Welcome the “Plurals”
Originally published in BeInkandescent In the middle of the 1950s, a seemingly spontaneous revolt against the prevailing conformist values of the country erupted among its youngest generation. The actor, James Dean, and his aptly named movie, “Rebel without a Cause,” perfectly captured the nature of this youthful uprising. His untimely death, in a 1955 high-speed …
Safe at Home
Originally published at NewGeography.com Each emerging American generation of adolescents and young adults tends to have a distinctive relationship with its parents. For the Baby Boomers of the 1960s and 1970s, that relationship was often conflicted, even adversarial. For Generation X in the 1980s and 1990s it was frequently distant and disrespectful. By contrast, the …
Charlie Cook’s Game of Three Card Monte
In his most recent “Cook Report,” one of Washington’s most respected prognosticators, tries to pull off a sleight of hand worthy of a con man on a NY street corner trying to get his mark to play a game of Three Card Monte. First, Cook shows his readers the target card by correctly pointing out …
Why Generation X Is Sparking a Renaissance of Entrepreneurship
Originally published in BeInkandescent Martha Beck, as with many of her Boomer Generation peers, finds the principles to guide her life though a deep exploration of her inner self. Boomers, like other “idealist” generations before them, believe life should be about a search for truth that their inner consciousness reveals.
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