Transformers: Born 1984-1995

While Transformers are still in their childhood and adolescence as this is being written, one may safely assume that this Value Population is likely to take a back seat to none when it comes to claiming a share of the world’s wealth and power. Whereas Believers, who preceded them, appear to have accepted peace as a path through turmoil, Transformers have received their value conditioning in an era that endorses a far more energetic and assertive approach toward personal survival and self-satisfaction. Created in a complex time of personal power resurgence amidst chaos, built by the speed and perception-bending qualities of the computer age, and fraught with streetwise intelligence about what separates winners and losers, Transformers, already exquisitely adept and savvy, are likely to survive on their own terms.

“The poet called Miss Liberty’s torch ‘the lamp beside the golden door.’ Well, that was the entrance to America, and it still is. And now you really know why we’re here tonight. The glistening hope of that lamp is still ours. Every promise, every opportunity is still golden in this land. And through that golden door our children can walk into tomorrow with the knowledge that no one can be denied the promise that is America.”
—Ronald Reagan, Republican National Committee speech (1984)