It's interesting that the hippie-to-yuppie generation, of which the author is admittedly a member, seems currently busy publishing a lot of mea culpa pieces lik

It's interesting that the hippie-to-yuppie generation, of which the author is admittedly a member, seems currently busy publishing a lot of mea culpa pieces like this article. It's a good development, if anything because admitting fault is difficult for everyone. But: - Hopefully this is not a desperate attempt at staying relevant. Taking the author at his own word, that whole generation is now unreliable: they messed up and are fundamentally corrupt. Unless they have a spotless, near-sainthood track record, anybody born before the mid-70s should probably be ignored when defining the strategic horizon. - They never seem to suggest a way forward anyway, exactly like this author. That's probably because they have little knowledge of the now, they can only analyze what came before. The real cultural breakthrough will happen when someone "clean" will manage to elaborate an actual way forward, a democratic socialism for the digital age that actually works (or promises to work) on a mass-scale. It probably shouldn't be called that, it will use new terms so it can eschew old labels; but it should promise redistribution, respect, and creative satisfaction, for all people. Until that happens, we are simply in damage-limitation mode. Technology has enabled capitalist excesses in an unprecedented way, most of the cyberpunk-theorized digital feudalism is already reality. What can we do? That is the question.