11-22-2018, 11:53 PM
(11-22-2018, 02:19 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: > After 58 years, a given cohort will have largely, if not entirely,
> vacated the institutions.
The 58 year cutoff makes perfect sense to me. I've seen it
personally of the last 20 years. In the 1990s I was treated
with respect. Then in the 2000s I was treated increasingly
contemptuously, simply because of my age. That's why Gen-Xers
created tens of trillions of dollars of fraudulent subprime
mortgage backed synthethic securities. They wanted to sell
them to the Boomers, but instead millions of people lost
their homes or went bankrupt. So older people had already
lost a lot of influence by the mid-2000s.
Today an older person has no influence at all, unless he has
money.
At the other end of the spectrum is someone like Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, who is one of the stupidest people around. But she
doesn't have to have money, since she's young, she's pretty, and she's
a girl, so she can influence a lot of people, which is one of the
reasons we're headed for World War III.
Also remember that the 58-year cutoff does not mean that the affected
cohort is 58 years old. The catastrophic event would have occurred
when they were 5-10 years old, so after 58 years, they're 63-68 years
old.
So the 58 Year Hypothesis makes perfect sense to me, both from
Generational Dynamics theory, and also from my personal experience.
Once people into their 60s, they lose all influence, and they're
treated contemptuously by younger people.
