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> let them age out Doesn't work. A long time ago I thought when all the old farts are gone, everything is going to be better. Had to have faith in my own gener
by ifdefdebug 3y ago
> let them age out
Doesn't work. A long time ago I thought when all the old farts are gone, everything is going to be better. Had to have faith in my own generation right?
You know what happened... Humanity just grew a new set of old farts.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoThis, and so much this. "The hope of the world is in our generation". No, it really isn't. Any given generation is, statistically, a lot like every other generation (certainly over spans of 4-6 generations).
- labster 3y agoSo basically we have no hope then?
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoHope is fine. Hope based on "the kids today will do right by the world", not so much.
- labster 3y agoSo hope based on eucatastrophe then? Works for me.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agohope based on (a) there are always some number of people at a given point in time working toward the goals you want to be hopeful about (b) there's always some non-zero chance that they may be successful. but hope somehow contigent or predicated on the age of those people? nah.
- midoridensha 3y agoExactly: look at what happened with the Hippies in the 1960s. They turned into the "Me Generation" of the 1980s.