Man, some of those last tweets haven't aged well and not in the way the establishment thinks.
I posted a video recently from historian channel whatifalthist that called Donald Trump the most boomer president ever. He's loud, boisterous, thinks everything has a simple soution, got tremendously wealthy not actually doing that much (in fact he got tremendously wealthy buying real estate!) and splits the world into good people and bad people. He doesn't follow any sort of conservative mores and while he doesn't drink he certainly engages in vices, particularly sexually. He's famous for it.
But in a lot of ways the reaction to him has been incredibly boomer too, especially by the millennials who hate him. He can't just be an arrogant oaf who doesn't know how the world works and is therefore just wrong, he has to be literally Hitler driving the world towards fascism because the worldview is pure good vs. pure evil.
I guess it drives people to ballot boxes, but the boomer age of beneficial economic supercycles is over, probably for a few generations. We don't have the luxury of simplistic thinking. We need to build realistic mental models of what's going on in the world, or we won't be able to make good decisions within it. That refers to the boomers themselves, but it also refers to us, their children, and our children. All of us need to use those fantastically powerful abstract minds of ours to imagine what the future probably brings and start figuring out how to deal with it.
I posted a video recently from historian channel whatifalthist that called Donald Trump the most boomer president ever. He's loud, boisterous, thinks everything has a simple soution, got tremendously wealthy not actually doing that much (in fact he got tremendously wealthy buying real estate!) and splits the world into good people and bad people. He doesn't follow any sort of conservative mores and while he doesn't drink he certainly engages in vices, particularly sexually. He's famous for it.
But in a lot of ways the reaction to him has been incredibly boomer too, especially by the millennials who hate him. He can't just be an arrogant oaf who doesn't know how the world works and is therefore just wrong, he has to be literally Hitler driving the world towards fascism because the worldview is pure good vs. pure evil.
I guess it drives people to ballot boxes, but the boomer age of beneficial economic supercycles is over, probably for a few generations. We don't have the luxury of simplistic thinking. We need to build realistic mental models of what's going on in the world, or we won't be able to make good decisions within it. That refers to the boomers themselves, but it also refers to us, their children, and our children. All of us need to use those fantastically powerful abstract minds of ours to imagine what the future probably brings and start figuring out how to deal with it.
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