Comments on: Bill Kristol and David Brooks http://cupofcha.com/2008/01/29/bill-kristol-and-david-brooks.html This is China Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:39:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Janus http://cupofcha.com/2008/01/29/bill-kristol-and-david-brooks.html#comment-519 Janus Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:20:02 +0000 http://cupofcha.com/2008/01/29/bill-kristol-and-david-brooks.html#comment-519 There is a pop-sociology book that discusses what you touched on in more detail...the idea that generations are cyclical, and the Gen-Y/mini-baby-boom/millennial generation is the generation to pick up the mantle of the next Greatest Generation--with the faith in institutions and earnest industriousness that you mentioned. Like any such work, it is rife with generalizations and sophistry...but the core message of the book is spot on...at least I hope it is, for all our sakes. I think the book is called "the next greatest generation." Check it out. There is a pop-sociology book that discusses what you touched on in more detail…the idea that generations are cyclical, and the Gen-Y/mini-baby-boom/millennial generation is the generation to pick up the mantle of the next Greatest Generation–with the faith in institutions and earnest industriousness that you mentioned.

Like any such work, it is rife with generalizations and sophistry…but the core message of the book is spot on…at least I hope it is, for all our sakes.

I think the book is called “the next greatest generation.” Check it out.

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