1 Comment
User's avatar
⭠ Return to thread
Karl's avatar

If we’re recycling all the the dumb, rich-kid-radical ideas of the 60s now, but with millennials and zoomers, are we going to repeat the whole 60s-70s-80s cycle again, though faster and with fewer resources?

In other words, if the new 60s started with Obama/Trump, and now we’re into the urban decay/energy crisis/silent majority 70s, can we expect some sort of “the pride is back” 80s vibe to roll in around 2030?

Maybe it will even be led by a conservative governor from a sunny state named “Ron”? (mostly kidding on that one...mostly)

I’ll add that I’m assuming that any such cycle would not represent a real resurgence of US prosperity but rather another step downward in our stop-and-go decline, underway since about 1970.

Expand full comment