BD Foundational - Explorative Thought and Conversation

#### **Influencer v. Creative**

* Boomer Bert: Finding a 'creative' solution to the challenges WE Humans will come by working together.
	+ influencers offer 'their' solution - They make money for 'their' purpose
	+ Creatives invite us to develop 'Our' solutions - WE engage with resource's for 'Our' children
* What is a Creative Podcast page
* What is an Influencer Web Page
* The Age of Everything Culture is Here Article-Wired Web

### Children

**It's About OUR Babies**  Boomer Bert

* Children will experience more climate disasters Video
* Humans Change the World Video
* 7 generations
* **Intelligence as a planetary scale process** Web Page - Cambridge University Press:
* These are Our Dreams for You
* We are all Connected

**No Rain**  **Blind Melon**

**When the Children Cry**  **White Lion**

**The Global WE**  **Boomer Bert**

#### The Sexual revolution of the 20th Century

* Taking Turns in a Conversation Web Page
* Women are oppressed
* M & W Raised in different/separate ways
* Amazingly little understanding of each other
* The Pill - Birth Control
* Harmony has been acculturated out of us
* Men not having a role, other than money maker

#### 'WE' Lead the way to a sustainable community in the 21st Century

* The challenge seems Overwhelming - It is/will be Very Exciting > only "WE" can DO IT
	+ We are Not Doing It  BoomerBert
	+ Division Creates War
	+ There will Be Peace when WE have and Justice
* ONE GREAT QUESTION.  Dahlia Lama - **Inter-dependence, of course, is a fundamental law of nature** - Web Site
* CREATING A "BRAVE" SPACE FOR CIVIL DISCOURSE Web Site
* Climate Change
	+ Grow Concrete Web Page

#### We have a responsibility to do something

* Those with great abilities have great responsibilities
* Errors of our forefathers are visited upon us
* Our errors are visited upon our children's children's children.

#### We are at a unique point in history

* Information is now widely available that has never before been available -
* Peak of fossil fuel extraction
	+ Beginning of the energy decline
* We are the flower of the organism known as Human Culture.

#### Transitions in life and society

* Childhood, takes, focuses on self
* Adolescence, questions identity
* Adult, gives, recognizes relationships, responsible for decision making
* Elders, information and perspective
* Society must  grow up and be responsible
	+ move from selfish materialism
	+ to responsible sustainability
	+ The Party's Over  Eliza Gilkyson

#### Respect for the world and others

* They are both always changing
* Change is uncomfortable

#### Cultural Generations

* Relationship generational impoverishment
* Extended v. nuclear families
* Economic conditions during development

Our Dividing into, stratifying our Civil Society

* Alpha
	+ The Beginning Boomer Bert
* Gen Z
* Millennials
	+ Trained to be Competitors
	+ Relate to screens
	+ Comfortable with virtual relationships
	+ Gen X
	+ Boomers

**A few songs expressing the "Boomer" concerns for "OUR" future**

**For What It's Worth 1967**  **Buffalo Springfield**

**Let's Work Together (1970)**  **Canned Heat**

**Eve Of Destruction {1965}**  **Barry McGuire**

**It's Good News Week (1965)**  **Hedgehoppers Anonymous**

**Inside Out 1990**  **Traveling Wilburys** (Boomer music revisited)

## **And YES In Fact**

### **We are Boomers are Guilty**  **Boomer Bert**

* Relate to Books
* Privilege: Resources, Information, wealth
* Comfortable with live relationships
* Military Experience

###### Nuclear v. Extended Family

* Result of industrialization
* Began in early 1700's when merchants controlled / took over guilds

#### Language

* Shared understanding
* M-Maturity
* Perspective is based on Context

##### Formal v Casual Conversation

* 2 Ways To Talk (Casual and Formal)… in the English Language Web Page

###### Etymology the study of words their origins and their evolving meaning

* We don't know it all - We are learning
* We need to be careful not to intimidate
* We need to ask for understanding of

Ask Questions  Boomer Bert

* generations and their language sets,
* their/Our lexicons

* Forgiveness / Acceptance

###### Oral Tradition

* Folk Wisdom and age -
* We get wise by making mistakes -
* The meat and potatoes of humanity was oral tradition,
	+ destroyed by the printing press -
* The elite get the chance to use it
* Corruption can abuse the oral tradition
* WE have lost the skill of critical thinking
	+ Following fads