Does The Rise of Social Media & Z Generation Validate Peter Turchin?

The responsible statecraft article points out that the Z generation no longer trust the Main Stream Media & its talking points of support for US foreign policy. Rather they are in full support of turning that foreign policy on its head. They grew in the shadow of the US WOT. Young people are dubious of the media and political structure that pushed the failed WOT and now are pushing support for Israel & Ukraine. They might actually believe the money spent on those adventure will be better spent at home. They seem to have no interest in national power projection/intervention.
They likely have huge education debt and likely poor employment prospects as the joint rise of AI & automation takes over production and business decision making.
They likely also notice that the future unfunded liabilities of Social Security & Medicare endangers those programs. And if Congress does manage to get a spine to rise taxation to kick the can further down the road; those taxes will be on their backs to say nothing of the US $35 trillion national debt.

It does indeed seems as if the 2020’s is the decade of social unrest and perhaps rising to social upheaval and even civil war.

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My generation, 50 years ago “Don’t trust anyone over 35”.

Nothing new under the sun.

Steve

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You’re 5 off.

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And it may have been said more than 50 years ago. But the point about the corruption of the older people in charge remains.

Steve

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Everyone in Gen Z is a minority.

The philosophy is weak is right and strong is wrong. Does not matter what the situation is.

That won’t last.

Ask them if Arab countries need to guarantee freedom of religion. Suddenly it gets real. Suddenly Gen Z’s worth is in question.

Israel is wrong only because Israel is strong, not because the Palestinians are right.

I work in a touchy-feely environment. Everyone has an easy street. One of my female coworkers my age has to talk. She declares every minority status she has as she talks. That is how she takes cover to say anything. Honestly, people are nice.

We have things that never get done.

But hey every mom-pop I have worked with has gone bankrupt later. The mom-pops are crazy and unemployable. That is why they start their own businesses. I am generalizing…less than you think.

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