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blackbootz  ·  2838 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The new debt slaves

Generational cycles? I appreciate any predictive theory, but when David Brooks is dissing you as too mumbo-jumboey, you're in trouble. Is this good stuff? I can't tell if you're linking me a "nudge nudge wink wink" or if this stuff ain't half bad.

It does get me thinking. I'm always at a loss when I hear people complain about millennials. No generation was a cause unto itself. We had parents. That hovered and helicoptered and bought us Xboxes and smart phones. And that shit made us into tepid, anxious, socially retarded beings that need more medication and therapy to get through the day than any one 40 years ago thought possible.





kleinbl00  ·  2838 days ago  ·  link  ·  

1) David Brooks is an asshat.

2) Pop sociology is gonna be called bullshit by anyone and everyone even if it's largely correct.

3) Shit can be out'n'out wrong and still be influential if enough of the wrong people believe it.

That said, I ordered Fourth Turning today. May read it once I've plowed through this thing.

user-inactivated  ·  2838 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    3) Shit can be out'n'out wrong and still be influential if enough of the wrong people believe it.

Or right, but only because enough people believe it. See: economics.

kleinbl00  ·  2838 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Discovering the power of "Castle in the Air Theory" caused a base-level revision on my understanding of the human animal.

blackbootz  ·  2838 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    2) Pop sociology is gonna be called bullshit by anyone and everyone even if it's largely correct.

This... is definitely true. If Fourth Turning does something for you, it would be interesting to hear what.

I'm sympathetic to your "To Read" list. I order about five or six books per book I read.