Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue

5. If you combine the "cult of new" with what I call "the arrogance
   of the youth", you get an explosive mixture. Before you think that
   I want to talk bad about younger people: I just talk from personal
   experience. I was a graduate myself years ago and believe me: I
   was arrogant! I knew better! I had to learn humbleness the hard
   way, and I am still not sure if I arrived (it is a lot easier to
   judge an old self than to judge the current self). So, I do not
   want to reproach any young person for being somewhat arrogant. I
   guess that is natural and also healthy to a certain degree because
   it helps against persisting in outdated ideas as an industry. But
   in a culture of new, this habit works as an unhealthy accelerant.

We actually live in gerontocratic societies and the power of young people
is just an illusion.  Age of US congressists[*] is a good evidence of that.
Young people are just being used by soft power to agressively market
new technologies.  What it is truth however, is that they enjoy playing
their part at the stage, and they are even convinced of it themselves.
Lennart is a paradigmatic example.

[*] https://blog.datawrapper.de/age-of-us-senators-charts/