{"id":48059,"date":"2023-06-02T14:07:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T12:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=48059"},"modified":"2023-06-02T18:41:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T16:41:08","slug":"the-two-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-two-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"Generational change seems to be accelerating, but the youth movements of the past need not feel so distant from today\u2019s younger generations. Nathaniel Williams on the masks taken off in the 60s and put on by today\u2019s youth.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the 1950\u2019s and 1960\u2019s young people in the USA felt impelled to find a new spiritual orientation in life that could somehow accommodate who they felt themselves to be. They felt limited by the expectations of societal integration and participation of their parents\u2019 and grandparents\u2019 generations, which generally centered the church as a social and spiritual hub throughout all of life. Yet young people felt like this culture was inauthentic, something central was missing. It was somehow all empty. Looking for authentic encounter they were meeting masks<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generational change seems to be accelerating, but the youth movements of the past need not feel so distant from today\u2019s younger generations. Nathaniel Williams on the masks taken off in the 60s and put on by today\u2019s youth. In the 1950\u2019s and 1960\u2019s young people in the USA felt impelled to find a new spiritual orientation in life that could somehow accommodate who they felt themselves to be. They felt limited by the expectations of societal integration and participation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9161,"featured_media":48062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8845,9086],"tags":[8814],"class_list":["post-48059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social","category-youth","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}