
Kevin Munger - Why Do Baby Boomers Still Dominate Politics and Culture?
The Curious Task
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Is There Too Much Ballast?
Ballast refers to the excess wheat that's ships, or hot air balloons, or anything but sails, puts on to the craft in order to prevent it froma being so light weight that it's easily tipped over. The idea here is that the fact that the boomers have this demographic weight am at the beginning, while it is helpful to beable to reorient the country towards their goals, heful hopofor them and end for early reorienting us to the post war order ation. And now it means that their presence is slowing down the adoption of new communication technology and a broader reoritation of our polti cultureto a world that incorporates tanet fully
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