I often think about the massive changes the US will experience when the Boomers die off. They are more religious, more Republican, likely to be climate deniers and conspiracy theorists...but they also contain an immeasurable amount of knowledge and skill.
In the Irish folk music world, 2/3 of the musicians I play with will be gone within 20 years. We as the younger generations must inherit and pass on their knowledge and skills, lest we lose many things of beauty and tradition. Thankfully, we have YT and audio recorders and books upon books, but we also must keep the face to face, aural tradition alive.
In the 60’s, the boomers were socialist hippies, and now they are conservative Republicans?
The millennials now complaining about inequality, will become conservatives as they age and acquire wealth.
As a gen-X (who’s generation just put their nose down and worked), I hope the millennials grow out of their mentality of victim hood, as they have a larger voting block.
> The millennials now complaining about inequality, will become conservatives as they age and acquire wealth.
Wealth acquisition among millenials is not tracking the rate of boomers in the 60s.
The trend today has been towards increased consolidation of large companies and an associated decrease in economic mobility, decrease in wealth share of those not in the top echelons, the repeal of common-sense regulatory frameworks like Glass–Steagall.
It seems short-sighted to say that all generations are bound to follow the same path as the boomers, when economic conditions today are radically different from those in the 60s.
In the Irish folk music world, 2/3 of the musicians I play with will be gone within 20 years. We as the younger generations must inherit and pass on their knowledge and skills, lest we lose many things of beauty and tradition. Thankfully, we have YT and audio recorders and books upon books, but we also must keep the face to face, aural tradition alive.