I think Tyler misreads this. While he’s right that Boomers are viewed as a force of nature, ‘Ok Boomer’ signals agency to fellow Ms/Zs rather than impotence. I hear it as, “we can just go around these people or run out the clock on them. They no longer matter.https://twitter.com/tylercowen/status/1192502834803040256 …
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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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I take Cowens point as Millennials co-opted OK Boomer from Zs as a statement of irrelevance and yet they’re still borrowing money from their parents, stanning for Bernie Sanders, going into debt to get the latest version of Steve Jobs’ iPhone, etc It’s all talk or typing really
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