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It’ll settle once generational churn claims more Boomers and GenX You’re not observing anything abnormal. History is full of generational conflict Google Fred

It’ll settle once generational churn claims more Boomers and GenX You’re not observing anything abnormal. History is full of generational conflict Google Frederic Wertham. DND outrage of the 80s. The elders always have a hard time accepting their mortality and try to fight against the obvious physical truth, due to high minded but wrong notions of how reality works. I for one feel we ought to consider it a mental illness to attempt to limit the next generation’s self determination . We should lower retirement to 55, purge for basic manual job roles. Roles where loss of institutional knowledge would increase risk to species well being, enable mentorship but not leadership. Boomers have unequivocally failed to accept generational churn and prepare. They want to ice skate uphill and it’s not going to work. It’s just not how physics works.

hilbert42 1y ago
"It’ll settle once generational churn claims more Boomers and GenX" Maybe, but I'm not alone in believing there's more to it. Check my reply to giantg2 about Brokaw (for context the thread starts early): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716734 "Boomers have unequivocally failed to accept generational churn and prepare." That's undoubtedly true but look at the circumstances. The generation to which Brokaw refers did not want their Boomer kids to go through what they experienced and went to great trouble to shield them. Unfortunately, they became spoiled, less resilient and expected everything on a patter. That overcompensation wasn't their fault but the legacy hasn't been nice. If you havent seen the film about Woodstock you ought to, it's good background material (it shows the other side of the Boomer generation). Right, that's not physics, it's sociology and political philosophy—metaphysics (defn: above and beyond physics).

hilbert42 1y ago

"It’ll settle once generational churn claims more Boomers and GenX" Maybe, but I'm not alone in believing there's more to it. Check my reply to giantg2 about Brokaw (for context the thread starts early): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716734 "Boomers have unequivocally failed to accept generational churn and prepare." That's undoubtedly true but look at the circumstances. The generation to which Brokaw refers did not want their Boomer kids to go through what they experienced and went to great trouble to shield them. Unfortunately, they became spoiled, less resilient and expected everything on a patter. That overcompensation wasn't their fault but the legacy hasn't been nice. If you havent seen the film about Woodstock you ought to, it's good background material (it shows the other side of the Boomer generation). Right, that's not physics, it's sociology and political philosophy—metaphysics (defn: above and beyond physics).