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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