Aren’t young people supposed to be the enlightened ones?
Actually I think this is a huge mistake to think that the youth provides inherent wisdom. In every orchestrated color revolutions the prime target is the idealist, naive youth.
The youth is powerful because of young bodies and stubborn, inconsequential minds. We always think that young = open minded but that’s a misconception : young people are more “progressive” because they only experienced the most recent state of the world, that’s not open mindedness, they just got shipped with all the new updates while older systems have to adapt by building on their previous packages (sorry I didn’t have a better metaphor,)
On the other hand, getting older gets you radicalised. Why are old people “so reactionary”? Well if they initially were liberals, since the logical conclusion of liberalism is fascism, an old liberal will get more fascistic as they figure out the contradictions of clean optimistic liberalism. But the others, the revolutionaries keep learning and grow wiser. Sure they can get stuck in old concepts when approaching the silver stage of life but even then they are indefinitely more interesting than your 21 something anarcho-marxist who doesn’t realise he’s actively helping people that are on a CIA payroll.
I’ll conclude by hammering that being against gerontocracy was a posture held by nazis, while Xi Jinping is a wholesome grandpa so my choice is done quickly, respect the elderly ffs
Actually I think this is a huge mistake to think that the youth provides inherent wisdom. In every orchestrated color revolutions the prime target is the idealist, naive youth.
The youth is powerful because of young bodies and stubborn, inconsequential minds. We always think that young = open minded but that’s a misconception : young people are more “progressive” because they only experienced the most recent state of the world, that’s not open mindedness, they just got shipped with all the new updates while older systems have to adapt by building on their previous packages (sorry I didn’t have a better metaphor,)
On the other hand, getting older gets you radicalised. Why are old people “so reactionary”? Well if they initially were liberals, since the logical conclusion of liberalism is fascism, an old liberal will get more fascistic as they figure out the contradictions of clean optimistic liberalism. But the others, the revolutionaries keep learning and grow wiser. Sure they can get stuck in old concepts when approaching the silver stage of life but even then they are indefinitely more interesting than your 21 something anarcho-marxist who doesn’t realise he’s actively helping people that are on a CIA payroll.
I’ll conclude by hammering that being against gerontocracy was a posture held by nazis, while Xi Jinping is a wholesome grandpa so my choice is done quickly, respect the elderly ffs
Heed the oldhead in a hood where men die young