This is overwrought. It’s demographics weighting the population statistics. Movies star old people? Old billboard hits are more popular than new ones? DUH. Tha

This is overwrought. It’s demographics weighting the population statistics. Movies star old people? Old billboard hits are more popular than new ones? DUH. That is boomer culture. Boomers have the numbers - dollars and bodies. They watch movies with their heros from yesteryear. They keep listening to the bands they discovered when they were young. So would anybody! To the extent that this turns into a population level phenomenon, it’s just market share. Yeah, the gereotocracy is a problem. Yes, the overall picture DOES look stagnant. But it’s not like there’s zero fresh ideas. Young people are doing it in new places which aren’t counted in the old metrics. Also, older folks can be creative too. Age is a state of mind, stagnation is a habit. I know plenty of folks who are hitting retirement age but are still interested in new media, new technology, new ideas. So I think the culture is ok. There’s just a lot of money in nostalgia for an abnormally big generation. As the boomers go, so goes the nation. The real question is: what happens when they’re gone? 10 years out they’ll be tired. 20 years out they’ll be over it. 30 years out, they’ll be gone. Then we‘ll have a group of long-suppressed folks taking charge. Their ages will be more uniformly distributed. What impact will that have? Will they best people rise regardless of age? Will it be harder to achieve a social consensus? Will new ideas flourish? Will assumed competencies be lost? I don’t know.