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 book
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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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Nope. The ideology is a consequence of densification, which itself is driven by economics and tech. Not a cause. It’s like thinking “Moore’s law will go too far and there will be a correction back to vacuum tubes”.
Doesn’t work that way. Quantum Zoomer Social Foam is coming.
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Thoughts inspired by observation that Woke Derangement Syndrome now exceeds Trump Derangement Syndrome in intensity and incidence.
Trumpism is an instance of a cyclic reaction phenomenon. Woke is a stage in a secular historical trend. Cycles self-correct. Secular trends evolve.
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Correct questions to ask are different in each case.
Cycles: when does it peak, reverse, and go into overcorrection
Secular trend: what does this morph into at next scale of evolution
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Ok, i feel like i completely lost track of your jargon by now. You used to make sense intuitively back in the good old 10s, and these days i can't make heads or tails of it.
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I admit to being lost for most of this storm, but that last line about having a temporary identity really resonates with me:
Every three years I find myself holding views I disagreed with the years ago, and I expect that pattern to continue into the future



