Richard Hanania

You're doomed to one day become what you hate.

You may never be a boomer, but you will be in the position vis-a-vis the younger generation that the boomers are in now, hopelessly uncool, increasingly distant from the engines of memetogenesis, sitting upon assets that you are not at this moment using for market labor or family formation and which could easily be redistributed to others.

Is it too hard to believe that the decisions you make now about stereotypes and identities and the level of respect due to elders will stick around for a few decades?

What will our children think of millennials and Zoomers?

Might they get mad about wokeness and the pillaging of the American education system for temporary political cred?

What about Trump, Doge, and the decline of federal-state capacity?

Any of these seems worse than whatever happened in the boomers' heyday.

The US has a way of bouncing back.

Maybe it'll happen again.

Still, the boomers can boast that they passed on a better life to their children.

How sure are you that you'll be able to say the same?

I think a fair analysis by some sort of unbiased, far-future historian might well conclude that boomers were a perfectly normal American generation.

Maybe a little too fond of cringe minion memes, but otherwise decent enough.

On the other hand, millennials and zoomers were some sort of mutant nightmare people.

I hope my grandkids, if I have them, will love me anyway.

Nobody ever controls that.

Nobody can ever know for sure.

The Epstein files are about to drop and it's going to be insane.

The Epstein files are about to drop and it's going to be insane.

The Epstein files are about to drop and it's going to be insane.