What the US needs is ability to reject Baby Boomer Leadership of ALL parties. Boomers do many things better than Gen-X. But they need to realize that 1st principles thinking is not a Boomer/EchoBoomer comparative advantage b/c they got so used to asserting power through numbers.
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Very interesting… is Gen-X better at first principles thinking? What makes you think so, if so? And any guesses about why?
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I don't think so. They're better at being empiricist, which is not the same thing. Boomers and Millennials deviate from empiricism in different ways. Boomers via cultural grand narrative, Millennials via institutionalism (they are "architects" in loose sense, not storytellers).
I suspect first principles thinking is equally unnatural to all 4 Strauss-How generational types, and each has equal likelihood of learning to do it. They just apply it in different arenas.
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what cultural grand narrative would you attribute to Boomers? eg. not the Civil Rights movement (although they seem happy to take credit for work that was done while they were tweens).. music? art? assuming most creative period is in 30's 40's, we can thank them for the 80's?
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Whatever label you want to slap on the counterculture I guess. The opposite of Eisenhower's military-industrial complex speech.
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ICYMI …great short book on problems with "1st principles" thinking…(typically too ideal-centric)
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