This definitely tracks with my experience as an elder millennial, especially the bit about how PB types are calibrated for older generations to swoon while AOC's wavelength can bewilder them (I'm mostly thinking of my boomer dad). One related thing I've been thinking about a lot, though I'm still cooking a more fully formed idea, is whet…
This definitely tracks with my experience as an elder millennial, especially the bit about how PB types are calibrated for older generations to swoon while AOC's wavelength can bewilder them (I'm mostly thinking of my boomer dad). One related thing I've been thinking about a lot, though I'm still cooking a more fully formed idea, is whether, on the national political stage, millennials will also fall victim to the boomer gerontocracy as Gen X has and basically get skipped and sidelined until all the younger boomers die at which point the Gen Z celebrities will be the "fresh faces" mobilizing stan armies on platforms the older generations simply don't understand and don't use.
This definitely tracks with my experience as an elder millennial, especially the bit about how PB types are calibrated for older generations to swoon while AOC's wavelength can bewilder them (I'm mostly thinking of my boomer dad). One related thing I've been thinking about a lot, though I'm still cooking a more fully formed idea, is whether, on the national political stage, millennials will also fall victim to the boomer gerontocracy as Gen X has and basically get skipped and sidelined until all the younger boomers die at which point the Gen Z celebrities will be the "fresh faces" mobilizing stan armies on platforms the older generations simply don't understand and don't use.