Nested threads, another discussion of institutional politics relevant even if you don’t care about TTRPGs.

This connects to my recurring lament that Boomers Never Let Go, which I would like to talk about for a minute ...

1/ https://twitter.com/delafina777/status/1273311628709130240

In most institutions I know well, positions of authority are largely held by people from the Baby Boom generation who have not only failed to groom successors, they have actively blocked Generation X from developing into leadership

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The most famous example of this is the US political class.

Boomers have held the Presidency for 38 years. If Biden wins the election this year, the Presidency will go not to Generation X but BACK to the Silent Generation.

Other power positions are comparably Boomer-heavy.

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Boomers in leadership entered a world in which it was easier for young people to get authority in existing institutions or to build new institutions ... and then when in authority re-shaped the world to make these things harder

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In classic Generation X fashion, this observation that We Was Robbed does not translate to a desire to seize the reins. I would like to see power mostly skip directly to Millennials, the sooner the better.

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The cultural politics of corporate leadership which inspired this grumble are better served by the sensibilities of Millennials than Gen-Xers like me, and they have so far been screwed even worse than we have.

Let Millennials take the wheel.

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And of course this kind of generational analysis has its limits.

Let us notice that, as is so often the case when talking about generational cohorts, I am really talking mostly about bourgeois white people.

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An old thread of examples of how Boomers never let go

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https://twitter.com/miniver/status/1021401814703386625?s=21 https://twitter.com/miniver/status/1021401814703386625