The breakdown of inter-generational society, the flattering of the ‘circle of life’. Speaking to…

The breakdown of inter-generational society, the flattering of the ‘circle of life’. Speaking to 20-somethings can be a window into where society is heading. Yesterday: ‘so how long are you going to keep wearing that mask?’, with a clear tone of ‘it’s a bit silly’. /1

I said for as long as we’re in a pandemic. They then started on the vaccines, saying ‘they told us they’d stop the pandemic, and they didn’t! Don’t trust anything governments tell you!’ I said they can stop you dying, and the immediate comeback was ‘do they though?’ /2

I realised in an instant they weren’t vaccinated. And these aren’t rabid anti-vax types by any stretch. But from there we were suddenly on fluoridation of water, and then Donald Trump, who’s a bit of a hero to them. I sat there wondering how it came to be that corrupt old…/3

…billionaires resonate with young adults a million miles removed from him geographically and in lifestyle. And it seemed the same flattening of the circle of life that has marked Western life with the rise of the boomers, where inter-generational processes were replaced with…/4

…eternal lifestyle politics. Each generation to their own now, to re-make all of civilisation and their own lifestyle fortunes. ‘Living their best lives’, feeding on celebrity and influencers in the absence of any other guidance. Cultures and nations with histories and…/5

…traditions replaced with a completely a temporal ‘market’ where we get to ply our own individual careers and aspirations. The hollowed-out shell of Western civilisation. /end