[munificent]

I am really optimistic about the younger generation, actually.

I'm a gen-Xer. Our mantra was "whatever". Instead of trying to solve problems, we just tried to detach from them. As long as we were self-aware and cynical about what we were being sold, we thought things would be fine.

But that's obviously stupid in retrospect. People in power love cynicism — why bother defeating other people when they'll defeat themselves?

Millenials, on the other hand, seem way more organized and engaged. For their generation "woke" doesn't just mean being aware of what's going, it means doing something about it. So I hope that they (and us too) can start changing some of the fundamental structural flaws in the current systems of power.

[gowld]

The woke generation before the Gen X was the....baby boomers. Remember civil rights and environmentalism? Perhaps the simplistic generational model is a poor fit for reality.