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# BoomerDreams: Foundational - Explorative Thought and Conversation

=== Why pay attention to us/this? ===
* **Influencer v. Creative**
	+ What is a Creative

#### '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 - Boomer Bert
	+ Division Creates War
	+ There will Be Peace when WE have and Justice
* ONE GREAT QUESTION.  Dahlia Lama -
* *Creating a "brave space"*
	+ CREATING A "BRAVE" SPACE FOR CIVIL DISCOURSE
	+ *We are not trying to present the answer, we are trying to create a space to create an answer*
* Climate Change
	+ Grow Concrete

#### 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
	+ Eliza Gilkyson The Party's Over

#### 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
			* **Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967**
			* **Canned Heat - Let's Work Together (1970)**
			* Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction
			* **Hedgehoppers Anonymous - It's Good News Week**
			* Traveling Wilburys - Inside Out
		- We 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

###### 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