10-09-2018, 11:13 AM
(10-09-2018, 10:55 AM)David Horn Wrote:(10-07-2018, 10:41 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: CNN has one of the better articles on how the Millennials might look at things differently politically.
Unfortunately, they seem more than a little distracted. It's as if they live in a bubble that floats through the world of not-them. They don't feel any real attachment to that world, or any responsibility for it. They are angry about their lives; they see themselves as pawns in a game they don't play. Many are just accepting of their fate. It's sad, to be frank about it. If I have to use a single term, it's lethargic. I'm not sure what breaks that pattern.
It is hard to develop much of a bond to the world if it does not fit one's world-view. Such is so if one has the perception that someone else made the world, and that that world forces one to destroy one's ego to fit in. Also in economics -- it is also hard to latch onto an economic reality in which one is overworked and underpaid, a common reality for young workers who have yet to specialize into something lucrative.
Politics? The old bastards run things, and they do so badly.
This is nothing new; it seems to have always been so.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.