So that’s exactly the same picture you used a month or so ago to illustrate a piece about how the young all love Boris (as it clearly demonstrates).
David Barnett
3 years ago
The lockdown was, and is, monumentally bad advice essentially pushed on the Government by advisors who are mostly younger than the Boomers (or just at the tail end). They have all been educated in the privilege-oppressor narrative by an education system designed to promote the psychology of dependence, which so afflicts all younger generations.
The establishment hates the idea of an independent populace. The bad advice is pure sabotage.
Stephen Follows
3 years ago
‘the fact that the lockdown has disproportionately protected the over 55s’
Now read Ian Birrell’s piece about how the over-50s are having their careers destroyed.
David Barnett
3 years ago
The “bill” for this extraordinary war-like effort is not meaningfully a future thing. When the whole economy is involved, debt ceases to be meaningful. It is being paid now, by people giving real things in return for fiat currency generated by bits in a computerised balance sheet. As with other war “debts” (or even the slavery ending “debt”) it should be “paid” in bonds with super long maturities – de facto write off.
David Radford
3 years ago
I simply regard the bunk that so-called experts like Max Hastings put out as personally offensive. I have not or would not fight tooth and nail to keep what I have rather than share it with my children’s generation and their kids. I do not believe most others in my generation would either so where is the basis for all this nonsense? Hastings has fallen into the same pit of false supposition as Matthew Paris. Let them fight tooth and nail for sole ownership of it.
Hilary Arundale
3 years ago
The boomer/millennial story preceded the covid lockdown right or wrong story and they’ve become a bit muddled up. Both stories are misleading, because they oversimplify. There are complacent baby boomers around, and flaky millennials, and stoical people who lived through WW2 and have been abandoned in care homes. All this is true but the story doesn’t address the appalling income inequalities that exist in Boris Johnson’s England.
JR Stoker
3 years ago
Very fine article, and points about ego and self well made. Though occasionally the conflation of an interesting life and a thoughful knowledge of an aspect of nature do work well. But that should be a rare beast!
Josie Bowen
3 years ago
lovely piece,
Steve Gwynne
3 years ago
Woke Millenials, aka Marxists are an entirely different beast to Conservative Millenials who abhor the Marxists and their Left Liberal allies.
Conservative Millenials are much more grounded and centred in their own sense of power and only require the government to facilitate their ingenuity and ambition to be independently minded socially aware individuals.
The opposite is true for the Marxists and their Left Liberal allies, they seek to forfeit their power to a Marxist ideology in order to control others.
Conservative Millenials will resist these Marxists in exactly the same way as boomers do now and for exactly the same reason, the love of liberty and democracy.
As such, multi-generational Conservatives are not seduced into delusional thinking like Marxists and their Left Liberal allies, they see reality for what it is, including the extraordinary workload that has been inflicted on our government. Unlike the Marxists whose only reality is their delusional mental constructs.
Steve Gwynne
3 years ago
Why is nature writing all about egos?
Because anthropocentrism is the norm.
Consequently, eco-anthropocentrism simultaneously embodies the Misery Me and the Heroic Me with cognitive dissonance cojoining the two. One destroys, the other tries to preserve. These two egos are then projected on to the Left and Right. Thus, the ecological competition between human animals and wild animals is then projected as political competition between the Left and Right.
At the moment, I think the only solution to our human growth crisis is ecocentrism which requires we scientifically identify all the drivers of the human growth crisis, beyond the competition between the Left and Right, and then collectively work towards ecological cooperation between human animals, tamed animals and wild animals.
Gerry Quinn
3 years ago
Unherd, you have deleted nearly all the comments, and I am disappointed in you. They were hardly awful, and the commenters are your friends, for the most part. Those comparing you to The Guardian have an edge now, that they did not before. Please reconsider your policies.
Peter KE
3 years ago
Not a good article. This situation has been caused by advisors/quangos SAGE, PHE, NHS providers/improvers etc but ultimately poor judgement by the DoHSV and cabinet office and government. The model we should have and should be following is Sweden. Our way out needs to be low tax and less regulations. Except for housing where a number of radical changes are needed, stop holiday properties, stop ABNB, stop overseas ownership, stop buy to let.
Boris was initially on the right track. It’s fear mongering populist screamers, screaming “MASKS” screaming “STAY HOME” that have pressured all governments. It is interesting that in Sweden there seem to be no populists. Populism is never a good trend.
Trishia A
3 years ago
Boris was initially on the right track, but he caved to populist aged fear mongerers
Trishia A
3 years ago
GenX, Millennials, and genZ will all pay very dearly for this shit. It’s NOT the wealthy who’ll pay for this. We’ll be paying for this through program austerity, Big Business will remain mostly untouched.
So that’s exactly the same picture you used a month or so ago to illustrate a piece about how the young all love Boris (as it clearly demonstrates).
The lockdown was, and is, monumentally bad advice essentially pushed on the Government by advisors who are mostly younger than the Boomers (or just at the tail end). They have all been educated in the privilege-oppressor narrative by an education system designed to promote the psychology of dependence, which so afflicts all younger generations.
The establishment hates the idea of an independent populace. The bad advice is pure sabotage.
‘the fact that the lockdown has disproportionately protected the over 55s’
Now read Ian Birrell’s piece about how the over-50s are having their careers destroyed.
The “bill” for this extraordinary war-like effort is not meaningfully a future thing. When the whole economy is involved, debt ceases to be meaningful. It is being paid now, by people giving real things in return for fiat currency generated by bits in a computerised balance sheet. As with other war “debts” (or even the slavery ending “debt”) it should be “paid” in bonds with super long maturities – de facto write off.
I simply regard the bunk that so-called experts like Max Hastings put out as personally offensive. I have not or would not fight tooth and nail to keep what I have rather than share it with my children’s generation and their kids. I do not believe most others in my generation would either so where is the basis for all this nonsense? Hastings has fallen into the same pit of false supposition as Matthew Paris. Let them fight tooth and nail for sole ownership of it.
The boomer/millennial story preceded the covid lockdown right or wrong story and they’ve become a bit muddled up. Both stories are misleading, because they oversimplify. There are complacent baby boomers around, and flaky millennials, and stoical people who lived through WW2 and have been abandoned in care homes. All this is true but the story doesn’t address the appalling income inequalities that exist in Boris Johnson’s England.
Very fine article, and points about ego and self well made. Though occasionally the conflation of an interesting life and a thoughful knowledge of an aspect of nature do work well. But that should be a rare beast!
lovely piece,
Woke Millenials, aka Marxists are an entirely different beast to Conservative Millenials who abhor the Marxists and their Left Liberal allies.
Conservative Millenials are much more grounded and centred in their own sense of power and only require the government to facilitate their ingenuity and ambition to be independently minded socially aware individuals.
The opposite is true for the Marxists and their Left Liberal allies, they seek to forfeit their power to a Marxist ideology in order to control others.
Conservative Millenials will resist these Marxists in exactly the same way as boomers do now and for exactly the same reason, the love of liberty and democracy.
As such, multi-generational Conservatives are not seduced into delusional thinking like Marxists and their Left Liberal allies, they see reality for what it is, including the extraordinary workload that has been inflicted on our government. Unlike the Marxists whose only reality is their delusional mental constructs.
Why is nature writing all about egos?
Because anthropocentrism is the norm.
Consequently, eco-anthropocentrism simultaneously embodies the Misery Me and the Heroic Me with cognitive dissonance cojoining the two. One destroys, the other tries to preserve. These two egos are then projected on to the Left and Right. Thus, the ecological competition between human animals and wild animals is then projected as political competition between the Left and Right.
At the moment, I think the only solution to our human growth crisis is ecocentrism which requires we scientifically identify all the drivers of the human growth crisis, beyond the competition between the Left and Right, and then collectively work towards ecological cooperation between human animals, tamed animals and wild animals.
Unherd, you have deleted nearly all the comments, and I am disappointed in you. They were hardly awful, and the commenters are your friends, for the most part. Those comparing you to The Guardian have an edge now, that they did not before. Please reconsider your policies.
Not a good article. This situation has been caused by advisors/quangos SAGE, PHE, NHS providers/improvers etc but ultimately poor judgement by the DoHSV and cabinet office and government. The model we should have and should be following is Sweden. Our way out needs to be low tax and less regulations. Except for housing where a number of radical changes are needed, stop holiday properties, stop ABNB, stop overseas ownership, stop buy to let.
Boris was initially on the right track. It’s fear mongering populist screamers, screaming “MASKS” screaming “STAY HOME” that have pressured all governments. It is interesting that in Sweden there seem to be no populists. Populism is never a good trend.
Boris was initially on the right track, but he caved to populist aged fear mongerers
GenX, Millennials, and genZ will all pay very dearly for this shit. It’s NOT the wealthy who’ll pay for this. We’ll be paying for this through program austerity, Big Business will remain mostly untouched.