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For all the talk of acceleration, change at the societal level is glacial, intergenerational at best. That, more than anything, will cost us.

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it generally happens very fast when it happens, actually. You just need generations willing to do it.

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Well, that's what I meant. You get critical mass at generational shifts every few decades. But miss a generation? Good luck. We missed mine.

5:09 PM · Mar 18, 2018Twitter Web App

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Not that we are yet too old. But we will be, soon.

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nah, the Millenial shift happens when Millenials are old enough to take political power en-masse + Boomers are dying retiring. That's 2020 -24. You can see the foreshocks with Corbyn and Sanders.

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I'll defer to your judgement on that. I just hope we won't be as crazy as we seem. I mean, we aren't fucking boomers, but...

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