Since then, to coordinate better has meant developing better mental models of people you’re coordinating with. From “cartoon” to “healthy marriage” levels. Increasing density. Moore’s Law of social scaling: the density of coordination doubles every generation.
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Gen X is 2x more densely coordinated than Boomers, Millennials are 2x Gen X and 4x Boomers. Zoomers are 8x Boomers. Size has evolved interestingly in recent decades. It’s gone barbell. As a company, Facebook is 43,000 employees. As a platform it has 2.37b AUs.
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Put another way, the average Boomer mental model of other Boomers is very coarse. “Class” is good enough. Late Boomer society had say 9 classes going by Paul Fussell’s 1992 bookhttps://www.amazon.com/Class-Through-American-Status-System/dp/0671792253 …
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Gen X? Probably double that at maybe 15-20 (think Myers-Briggs). Millennial = maybe ~100 (woke intersectional identity). Zoomer = we’ll see. Perhaps 1000 weird meme-archetypes in a lifetime. Too many to cast into a systematized hierarchy or matrix.
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The charge of “Identity politics” is mostly one generation’s disgust reaction at the greater scaling density/intimacy of the next. The greater the distance, the stronger and more emotional the reaction.
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Boomers get apoplectic at Millennial identitarianism and assert reactionary class structures. Gen X has a milder reaction: mostly private libertarianism and public non-conflict. Zoomer fluidization of woke matrix is going to piss off Millennials. But this is all inevitable.
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To run with the Moore’s law analogy, to work together effectively at internet scale, Zoomers will need coordination density so intimate, it will look like quantum tunneling and entanglement effects to us. They are Borg. Resistance is futile if you’re young enough.
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Ideology doesn’t matter. All ideologies are on the same densification curve. Alt-right dank meme Borg is the same as Woke-cancel-mob Borg. If you’re too old to be assimilated, you’ll be ok-boomered out of the process.
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Point is: there seems to be growing wishful thinking that this is a volition always, ideologically driven process and that at some point “woke will go too far” or “alt-right incels will go too far” and lead to a correction towards “sanity” defined as “historical density”.
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Besides how much you’re trying to flatter zoomers as being able to work at a quantum level, it’s not a given, also it’s not a given that they’d be chosen by capital as their new Svengalis. Eventually they will too crave “historical density” and settle for quantum mediocre
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You’re reading flattery into this. I’m just observing a trend. The economic/tech trends may blow up. It may trash the planet. Quantum Zoomer Foam May turn out to be a planetary cancer.
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