Let’s not talk about abortion!
So, Rob, does it matter what you think about abortion?
No, not at all. But for a couple different reasons.
The first reason is that nobody gives a damn what I have to say, so anything I have to say is completely irrelevant.
The second reason is that abortion may become a dinosaur issue, meaning one that while it has value in the current climate, it will largely only be trotted out by people who have failed to see the shift in the generational makeup.
See, the abortion debate is very much an artifact of the 1980s. While it was, and remains, indicative of the culture-gap that has existed within the country since before its founding, the debate that reached new ground in the ‘80s. Why did it become an issue in the ‘80s? Because in the ‘70s the Thirteeners were being born in an anti-child culture. The ‘80s saw the start of a pro-baby golden-child Millennial generation.
The Thirteener generation, born from about 1960-1981 was the most aborted generation in American history. There was a decidedly anti-child tone to the country as Boomers still sought to put themselves first. It was the era of The Omen and The Exorcist [1]. Things happen to shift this movement in the early ‘80s. Read “The Fourth Turning” or “Millennials Rising” by Neil Howe and William Strauss to find out what and why. But ultimately, all of the sudden the children that were being aborted stopped being Thirteener and started being Millennials.
While the issues at the root of the abortion debate remain, it is no longer a crisis because the Millennials are born, abortion rates are steadily declining. It’s a debate, but it has stopped being an issue and people who cling to it as a defining issue will become marginalized. They will be dinosaurs, trumpeting an issue which is done and gone.
It matters, sure, but it is no longer relevant.
The Millennials have been born. The heroes have arrived.
Hip hip fucking hooray.
No, not at all. But for a couple different reasons.
The first reason is that nobody gives a damn what I have to say, so anything I have to say is completely irrelevant.
The second reason is that abortion may become a dinosaur issue, meaning one that while it has value in the current climate, it will largely only be trotted out by people who have failed to see the shift in the generational makeup.
See, the abortion debate is very much an artifact of the 1980s. While it was, and remains, indicative of the culture-gap that has existed within the country since before its founding, the debate that reached new ground in the ‘80s. Why did it become an issue in the ‘80s? Because in the ‘70s the Thirteeners were being born in an anti-child culture. The ‘80s saw the start of a pro-baby golden-child Millennial generation.
The Thirteener generation, born from about 1960-1981 was the most aborted generation in American history. There was a decidedly anti-child tone to the country as Boomers still sought to put themselves first. It was the era of The Omen and The Exorcist [1]. Things happen to shift this movement in the early ‘80s. Read “The Fourth Turning” or “Millennials Rising” by Neil Howe and William Strauss to find out what and why. But ultimately, all of the sudden the children that were being aborted stopped being Thirteener and started being Millennials.
While the issues at the root of the abortion debate remain, it is no longer a crisis because the Millennials are born, abortion rates are steadily declining. It’s a debate, but it has stopped being an issue and people who cling to it as a defining issue will become marginalized. They will be dinosaurs, trumpeting an issue which is done and gone.
It matters, sure, but it is no longer relevant.
The Millennials have been born. The heroes have arrived.
Hip hip fucking hooray.
posted by Robert Rodger at 4:18 PM
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