Recently a post by Chris Arnade (ar-NAHD-i) at X caught my eye.
I’ve written for the last decade about the educational divide in the US, but culturally there is now a large divide between generations — specifically those over sixty versus basically everyone else.
The sixty-plus cohort (Boomers which I’m at the very tail end of) have a lot more certainty that they’ve discovered the Truth — or the high point, and often end point, of many things. From music (rock will always be here), to fashion (why would anyone wear anything but blue jeans), to politics (liberal democracy with emancipation from all forms of obligation as a human Telos).
Younger people are much more uncertain and relativistic. They don’t accept the claim that it’s been solved, and the Boomers’ rigidity and religious-like certainty seems to them either laughably naive or arrogantly condescending.
The Boomers see everyone else as having fallen away from the path to historical perfecti ......
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