80%+ live where they grew up. So few moved about as democracy had its best days.
Only 14% have earned more than a bachelors, while polls suggest the public believe it’s closer to 50%.
We’re incredibly naive and ignorant of ourselves, including how to concretely define democracy.
That “type of debate” existed before you and isn’t going anywhere.
The problem is you’re thinking too specifically when reality is a handful of general patterns. Democracy doesn’t hinge on your fears because you’re a specific person not a body of people. Democracy was born in and triumphed over worse. You’re concerned about your specific understanding of how the world works embedded in your memory, deference to which is not the aggregate’s obligation.
Consider how religion has declined despite protests of the prior generation reality would end, yet it hasn’t. Consider Seduction of the Innocent and its authors fears about comic books fracturing society and it didn’t. Consider parental outrage at DND and rock music, which also did not end the world.
Just another generation bleating like a goat atop a car in a flood at the awareness of its own impermanence and importance, that it has less time ahead than behind. Just vanity leading people to believe their childhood memes are essential.
It’s been interesting watching Silent Gen, Boomers, and now GenX post on social media existential dread as each of those groups majority push into 50 years old and beyond.
Apparently you haven’t seen the TikToks in fast food joints, malls, and the like?
Let me describe it; poor people looting and beating up employees.
America today is living the problem at a small scale.
I’m not saying it’s their fault. 100% the fault of a the general public as a whole for continuing to buy into promises of arbitrary meat suits projecting non-existent authority (society’s laws are not immutable physics).
IMO the Tim Leary approach is 100% the correct approach. Less than 1 million sworn LEO inclusive of local, county, state, federal agencies. That small a police force in the land of 2A rights has no chance. Probably not even needed, just a sincere threat and the gerontocracy would have to pay attention. It does not so long as the market bears it.
160 million of Gen Alpha, GenZ, and Millennials have little to lose since they can’t afford anything and the vigor of youth on their side. They have little to fear from a handful of aging rich.
Only 14% have earned more than a bachelors, while polls suggest the public believe it’s closer to 50%.
We’re incredibly naive and ignorant of ourselves, including how to concretely define democracy.
That “type of debate” existed before you and isn’t going anywhere.
The problem is you’re thinking too specifically when reality is a handful of general patterns. Democracy doesn’t hinge on your fears because you’re a specific person not a body of people. Democracy was born in and triumphed over worse. You’re concerned about your specific understanding of how the world works embedded in your memory, deference to which is not the aggregate’s obligation.
Consider how religion has declined despite protests of the prior generation reality would end, yet it hasn’t. Consider Seduction of the Innocent and its authors fears about comic books fracturing society and it didn’t. Consider parental outrage at DND and rock music, which also did not end the world.
Just another generation bleating like a goat atop a car in a flood at the awareness of its own impermanence and importance, that it has less time ahead than behind. Just vanity leading people to believe their childhood memes are essential.
It’s been interesting watching Silent Gen, Boomers, and now GenX post on social media existential dread as each of those groups majority push into 50 years old and beyond.