Manny

My audience is mostly Millenials. Second and third come the Gen Z/GenX cohorts. Fourth is Boomers and last is Silents. Truthfully, I have barely any engagement with those over 75 from experience. My audience also tilts male with strong english language comfort. If you have a different demographic structure, I would be interested to see this repeated with your followers. I will say, being in my 50s, mostly my younger audience wants to know questions akin to the following: "What should I do if I want a good life?" "Is this normal?" "How did we get here?" "Was it always like this?" "Why do I have to look up the things you say from history? Why weren't they taught to us?" "What should we do to change things?" "How do we get to a world where we also have a future?" I have been forced to change my mind because of these questions. I used to think it was a resiliency failure. I think I was wrong. What I think now is that the indefinite future collapsed. The future with homes. With courtship. With children. With careers. With retirements. With investment in one's youth to become a respected expert and pillar of society. With mentors. With rites of passage. With trustworthy institutions. I now believe I didn't get it. Group resiliency is downstream from a societal future worth fighting for. Those young people who still see an individual future are still individually resilient. As an example, a group of young tech entrepreneurs in San Francisco may not see a future for California. Yet, they are working their hearts out for their own futures. But they wouldn't be working nearly as much for their communities and the state if they perceive the government as unsalvagable. So no, this is unlikely to be an enormous number of GenXers voting. But try it yourself. I think the world knows that the generation least likely to go along with mass delusions is the one most passed over by delusional institutions. And lastly, a few of you don't get the generational issue and my focus on it. You act as if it is some blindspot that I have somehow never considered. Let me be blunt: It's not about magical cohorts and mindless generalization. You're not getting it. The boy pictured is Etan Patz. If you were an American, You were either born before he disappeared on the morning of Friday May 25, 1979 or after. His disappearance determined whether you played outside the house or inside the house. You were either born before or after the no-fault divorce wave starting in 1969. That had a huge effect on whether or not your family stayed together. Similar things are true for Persians who either were born before or after the Islamic Revolution in Iran that begain in January 1978. Before or after the Berlin Wall fell. Or the internet. Etc. Generations are groups of people formed by their developmental environments: Depression or Boom, War or Peace, Growth or Stagnation. Etc. While imperfect, these distinctions matter hugely as to how we approach the world. Thanks for your time. As always...