01-20-2023, 04:19 PM
At some point, knowing how to use the technology is more valuable than knowing how to create its technological basis. Cabbies do not need to know how to fix a car. Computer programmers used to need to know some electrical engineering. Cell phones, printers, and even PC's are practically throw-away items. Example: any computer running on Windows 8.1 is approaching or has reached the witching hour when programs crash. Thank you, Linux, for sparing me the cost of a new computer!
I see 2003 as the most likely start of the Homeland Generation due to COVID-19 disrupting normal ceremonies of predictable lifecycle events in childhood. We have yet to fully understand the effects, as we have yet to be certain that COVID-19 is over. An Adaptive generation typically becomes highly effective at using such institutions and infrastructure already in place to a far greater extent than in creating them. (As with the Silent, this will be true in the formation of small businesses as working for someone will be more attractive than taking the risks of starting a new business). COVID-19 broke neoliberal assumptions that employers could get away with treating employees badly with near-impunity, sweating them under proletarian conditions even if they had high levels of skill and formal preparation for their work.
I see 2003 as the most likely start of the Homeland Generation due to COVID-19 disrupting normal ceremonies of predictable lifecycle events in childhood. We have yet to fully understand the effects, as we have yet to be certain that COVID-19 is over. An Adaptive generation typically becomes highly effective at using such institutions and infrastructure already in place to a far greater extent than in creating them. (As with the Silent, this will be true in the formation of small businesses as working for someone will be more attractive than taking the risks of starting a new business). COVID-19 broke neoliberal assumptions that employers could get away with treating employees badly with near-impunity, sweating them under proletarian conditions even if they had high levels of skill and formal preparation for their work.
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.
