CH86 wrote:FishbellykanakaDude wrote:blah blah blah...
But in other countries Russia, China, Iran and others, generational decisions are being taken by not just boomers but the equivalents of Xers, Millies and Homies/pivotals. Thats Not whats happening in the west, here in the west generational decisions are being implemented by boomers and solely by boomers who deliberately excluded the other generations. Hence the young have not been allowed to have their generational "vote" on issues. In Russia and China all four generations are shaping the decisions the Chinese and Russian governments are making. Here in America only the boomers are shaping those decisions really. What the young is demanding is that all four generations shape the decisions of America just like they do in Russia and China.
I think you're quite incorrect.
Those who "take (make?) generational decisions" are those with the power to do so.
That's that way it works, according to the "typical power dynamics" of the society involved.
If you, for example, don't like the presently exhibited "normal power dynamics" of "the west" then you're perfectly welcome to try to change those dynamics,.. within or not within the "law" of the land.
I'd love to see how you'd go about changing those norms within the law, and it'd also be interesting to see where you might "dare" to resort to making changes outside the law, if you deemed that necessary.
Your "complaint" that "your people" (age cohort) are being denied some "power" that they have, is obvious nonsense, because if they DID have the power (and the will to use it) then they'd use it!
Those with "the power" use the power. Those without "the power" won't.
Your basic "problem" is that you don't belong to the "population" that you think you do, and that you think you represent.
You can try to whip up "your people" to be more like yourself, but until there is some "critical mass" within "your people" that already think like you do, you won't have any effect whatsoever.
The masses LEAD movements, they don't follow "politicians" like yourself. And yes, you are a politician, because you're a minority trying to "push" a majority to do something. That is the definition of a politician.
The "successful" politician, of course, doesn't actually lead. He follows while appearing to lead, and is paid quite well for pulling off the illusion.
When the genocidal resentful mass DOES come to power, you can have all the "fun" you like for a short while, until the mood changes to disgust and revulsion at such (likely somewhat necessary) "fun".
You are correct that sometimes "tempered genocide" is the knife necessary to correct an "evil malady" (actively acquisitive megalomaniacal genocidal madmen) in a surgical manner, but short of solving the "living memory" problem that causes the GD Cycle, there is no "human nature change" solution (where people accept a perpetual tyranny) to our cyclic nature of war and peace.
You give MUCH too much credit to the "generational egalitarianism" of Russia and China et al. Those statements of yours are beyond laughable, of course, but not much of a surprise since you "look up to them" so.
Utopians, of any stripe, are ALWAYS so damned amusing!
Aloha dude! <shaka nui!>