(0639) Morning all.

 

7. DAD and the Prewar Generation

As DAD writes:

3. Don’t forget that there a few of us ‘Pre-war’ generation left.

This is the latest comment under Saturday 3. Right, so exploring time again, back soon.

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Back! This:

“In the United Kingdom, the Silent Generation was also born during a period of relatively low birthrates for similar reasons to the United States and was quite traditional upon coming of age. They lived through times of prosperity as young adults, economic upheaval in middle age, and relative comfort in later life.

The Sixtiers is a similar age group in the Soviet Union whose upbringings were also heavily influenced by the troubles of the mid-20th century. The term “the builders” has been used to describe a similar cohort in Australia.”

Never heard of the Builders although it was certainly what happened … they built homes, families but where does Dr. Spock come into it? Let them be bratty and have everything we didn’t (Boomers)?

Plus:

These latter ones were whom I was referring to (in Britain) as the War Generation … that is, they were born late Depression and lived through the War, Rationing etc.

Generations certainly get messy as we go back earlier than Boomers. Boomers are quite clear … born post-war, even post-rationing … in the US and Oz, they come of age late Vietnam War, the Korean were the previous “diagonal lot”, hardly Boomer parents, more big brothers and sisters.

If a generation is 16 to 18 years long, e.g. Boomers being 1946 to 1962/3, then strictly speaking … chap demobbed 1946, young man, marries, baby arrives in early 1947, the earliest that that baby has a baby, apart from accidents, was around 1970, mid-Gen X. Does my ’ed in, all this.

Thought-through scenario … demobbed mid-1946, meets or returns to a sweetheart … who knows but maybe they try to build a nest egg first, bank credit might come into it. I see the baby arriving maybe 1948. (After WW1, there was a delay due to the 1918 plandemic. After WW2, polio comes into it.)

Oldest Boomer then is maybe 76 years old right now. So DAD of course is right … long time before, quite a different generation, I’m honoured our little site here still has him. If we go 1928 to 46, we get our 18 year long Generation … DAD is midway (naughty or hopeful parents?)

What to call them? Pre-war? Silent? Builders? Wrecked? Penury? Dour? War? Maybe DAD can fill us in … a bit before my time, this.

6. DAD at 1096

a) On June 10th, President Macron spoke out against “the tyranny of news” (faits divers) and said that the French were being “brainwashed” about murders that hit the headlines and shocked French public opinion in recent months.

b) SCOR [a global group of re-assurance] CEO Thierry Léger identifies three major risks…..Currently, the only almost absolute exclusion from insurance coverage is war. Riots, on the other hand, are widely covered worldwide.

c) [The] Firewall finally crumbles? AfD set to work with Wagenknecht Party. The two populist forces could dramatically reshape regional governance.

d) “Complete Madness:” EU’s 2040 Climate Plan branded a betrayal of Citizens. The EU’s climate targets are facing growing political resistance, with critics calling them unrealistic, expensive, and disconnected from economic reality.