An interesting observation! I think something important has changed in how generations relate to each other. But I question to what extent culture ever was as static as we currently imagine. Culture is never unmoving rather it exists in dynamic equilibrium. 1/5https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1160508181602275328 …
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Cultural stasis is usually a dynamic equilibrium. People move into subcultures, people move out, but if they move at a nearly equal rate, there might be very little net change. People observe change in their own environment, and then incorrectly extrapolate. 2/5
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Further because of ignorance and self-flattery the present projects lack of change on the past. Sexual norms make a great example. There were many sexual revolutions pointing in many different directions over last few millennia. Read Catherine the Great's love letters. 3/5
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Here is my thinking on current generational frictions: 1. In the US you can't talk about class warfare sensibly, so this discourse is displaced to other correlated variables. Rage against Boomers is often rage against landlords and C level executives. 4/5
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2. Age segregated institutions unusually dominate our society. Think school where a two or three year difference changes social circles completely. The ones that enabled cross generation cooperation are severely weakened. 5/5
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2. (continued) Say Mutually beneficial master-apprentice relationships are unthinkable because socially responsible guilds aren't viable. The few age desegregated institutions that remain encourage cross generational exploitation rather than cooperation. Think Grad School. 6/5
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2. (continued) Because the young and the old find themselves in competition rather than cooperation, they benefit from obscuring information from each other. Rate of change of society is exaggerated. What has plummeted is rate of transmission of social information. 7/5
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Replying to @SamoBurja
I've often regretted not having more healthy relationships with people of my parents' generation. Starting in college or so, I expected that older people I admired would judge me harshly, so I avoided talking to them. I'd have made a lot more progress if I didn't.
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Partly, I think, "coming of age on Internet 2.0" I came to be much more open about myself than older generations, and I assumed that they all *were* as risk-averse and full of gravitas as their public personas.
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George Washington, in real life, had an explosive bad temper; his "sober statesman" demeanor was a calculated facade. It's not uncommon for "great men" (and women) to have human flaws and quirks in private life.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @SamoBurja
Somehow I got the impression growing up that "real scientists" never had premarital sex, used recreational drugs, or speculated about politics or philosophy or human nature; to be a scientist you had to be a "worker bee" who never engaged in such "frivolity".
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