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I honestly believe that the next ten years will herald a culture war the likes of which we have never seen before: namely, the struggle to transform ourselves into a sustainable global society. It will consist of an ideological battle the scale of which will dwarf the cold war; an economic battle as we reorganize our industries bringing the mega-rich to their knees, and a military battle as diminishing resources strike fragile nation-states in the gut. Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize has launched the first salvo.
more and more conviced of that.
@badam, Hey Benoit! Enjoying life post-phd? That seems like a symptom, not a cause. I read the book, “Cultural Creatives” by Richard Florida, which defined the term. But the book that really got me thinking is “The Fourth Turning” by William Strauss and Neil Howe. To sum up their brilliant argument in a few sentences, what we’re waiting for is for all the older politicians of the “Silent” Generation (who were born in during World War II) to die. It is when the Boomers (Gore, Bush, Clinton) are the only ones who dominate the top tiers of the government that the culture war will truly begin. Boomers can’t actually run the governement because by nature, all they can do is personal politics even though they always talk about the big ideas. By then Generation X’s will run most of the government. They’ll just knuckle down and carry out the policy. And the Millenials will just do it. I want to write about this a lot more. |
I am Bosco (email). I live in San Francisco. I am a postdoc researching the science of proteins. I write about performances, programming, books (of which I sometimes review) and other miscellanea. I make writing, pictures and software. Blogroll |
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