In general, when one side in a conflict is more time-rich, this will always happen. The adversary turns into a lame duck due to mortality, no matter how much nominal power they have. The NPV of their power declines to “mostly harmless”. It will happen to X’s, Ms, Zs in turn.
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I’m reminded of the Seinfeld episode with the Mandelbaum family. That episode starts with Jerry giving them the benefit of doubt on relevance, but ends with what’s effectively an “ok mandelbaums” punchline. By the end it’s no longer even worth humoring their self-importance
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Much of the reactionary political wave in the west is a growing sense of unease over China saying “Ok America/West” In both cases the confidence behind the posture is somewhat insecure, but it can only grow, while the deprecated adversary can only weaken.
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Heh it’s a pre-emptive ghosting of soon-to-be-ghosts. The Boomer reaction strikes me as “do not go gently into the night, rage rage against the dying of the light.” Especially the youngest ones with a few decades left on the clock.
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Yes, agreed, it comes across to me more as a rallying cry for seizing political agency.
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This whole "Ok Boomer" topic is just the sort of thing a cloyingly clever Baby Boomer would dream up.
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I hear it honestly applied on a daily basis. It clearly means, “Your old person thoughts are obsolete and stupid, and I’m ignoring you.”
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How is dismissing and denigrating an entire generation of people, for political agency, a good thing in any book? What's next? Kill all the boomers?
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You’re missing the passivity of the energy here. It isn’t active kill-all-boo ers energy. It’s passive they’ll-be-dead-soon energy.
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