The Clash of Generations Cometh

The Times They Are a-Changin’,

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agein’
Please get outta’ the new one if you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’  –   Bob Dylan, 1964

It will be 6 years on March 1st since we wrote and posted,  Connecting the Dots: The Coming War Between Generations.   We wrote back then,

It doesn’t take a C.I.A. analyst with a Ph.D. to realize the potential for political blowback when one generation is rendered into servitude due to the excesses of another.   Or does it?  – Global Macro Monitor

We also cited Thomas Friedman a few months later in our piece, The Clash of Generations.

What we are witnessing in the Middle East where the young, who have little or no political voice and a not so bright future are throwing off their autocratic gerontocracies at an incredible pace.   Something similar will manifest here and the rest of the aging west, though probably in different way, when younger generations realize the consequences of being saddled with a massive debt and declining public services as the tax revenues are diverted to debt service and retirement benefits.   Not to mention the world full of carbon they have inherited.
– Thomas Freidman,  NY Times,  July 16, 2011

It’s here, folks.

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