(12-05-2022, 10:31 AM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: As for Culture during the next 1T.... I can imagine a few Boomers as Late Bloomers. Boomers may have retired from, say, producing/directing movies, but a few old Boomers may create art in such endeavors as painting, poetry, and novels. Endeavors where individuals can create while working alone.
This will be better. Many will be retired from the pecuniary drive. Except in advertising, the pecuniary drive pushes people into non-creative activities. Boomers who halfway know what they are doing with their lives might see retirement as an opportunity to most fully express themselves. Fifteen years of artistic achievements following years of contemplation might get some interesting results.
Early-wave Boomers have shown no indication (aside from Donald Trump, whose personal habits bode ill for prospects of a very long life) that they will abandon the GI pattern that the Silent continued of staying attached and active while exercising good health habits that extend lives.
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.