>>11394949Yeah I watched it and what he says is essentially true not only for academia but whole of society in general. People have focused entirely on the struggle of different nations and their kings to conquer each other externally, romanticizing this in our culture as the primary way that humans compete for power, but have completely ignored the internal struggle for power within the tribe which is much more intense and goes way before organized wars even existed, the one of the established elder versus the young contender. What he said is not only true but expected as it has literally always been like this, even going as far back as the case of a certain group of mathematicians drowning their colleague for challenging their established narrative. It's also very easy to notice it on a societal levels with modern society basically being the boomer catering machine that maintains the status quo of boomers holding the reins and investing abnormal sums of money and time into sets of laws and alphabet agencies to purely suppress any potential uprising against this. Candidates who try to tilt the balance of power towards younger generations are to be blacklisted by the media and then humiliated on their own rallies by the controlled identity politics circus, not once but twice, and if a movement like OWS ever dares appear, to have the same thing happen to it as well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_stack until no one takes it seriously anymore. If the economy crashes thanks to the abnormal real estate bubble held by the landlord monopoly of boomers who demand millions of dollars for the same thing they got by working at a factory for 20 years, it is to be propped back up using any means necessary, even outright plundering the future of the nation, just so the boomer retirement portfolio scores a green figure next year and old Johnny here can spend another year on the Philippines. Crypto giving power and wealth to young people? No, just no.
