Quarantine Shaming and Emergence of Groupthink

[pbrower2a]

We need remember that the dominant Boomers in commerce and politics have generally been the most reactionary, rapacious, and selfish of their generation. The Boomers that got us into this mess will likely be swept aside at a critical moment and rendered irrelevant. The ones with principle, vision, and imagination will be part of the solution. People in their sixties are not too old to lead or be influential. But they must be seen as part of the solution and not part of the mess.

Boomers will not decide things with their votes either as the electorate or as legislators. Boomers are on the fade, and it is easy to imagine the Millennial Generation becoming the largest generation in the electorate and starting to take over in high political office. Millennial adults are more mature than geezers like Donald Trump who have become senile without ever having truly matured. If you want something that doesn't really grow up, then I might suggest a cocker spaniel. Humans who fail to develop emotionally, like Donald Trump, are just too dangerous and destructive.

The Millennial world will be very different from what we now know -- unless we are old enough to remember the 1950's. The Millennial world will be one in which equity in pay (the pay that can support a family) will be the norm and not the exception. In stead of asking whether a failing business of great size is too big to fail, Millennial leaders will ask whether such an entity is too big to save. Small business (this is more an X characteristic) will be more a norm than an exception. Taxes will be high to support pay-as-you-go funding instead of debt. Personal and public debt will be anathemas.