https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco 2026-06-24T08:51:51+00:00 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/06/my-generation-still-cant-discuss-palestine-but-thankfully-we-no-longer-control-the-debate/ robertogreco zionism genocide gaza 2026 politics us israel philipweiss generations harvard colleges universities highered highereducation academia markpenn menachembegin antizionism idf iof ethniccleansing palestine censorship alangarber middleeast lebanon nationalism ethnonationalism jewishnationalism leonuris nicklemann nancyjacobson https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e53aee333881/ 2026-06-03T20:27:18+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vinqz2Fs0zA robertogreco detroit labor gentrification music 2026 hanifabdurraqib motown hiphop techno djs docuseries tv television documentary cities us art artiists musicians spaces infleunce culture culturemaking greatmigration curiosity creativity bluecollar work workers workingclass class midwest musichistory musicalhistory jaredware makc livemusic community performance venueloss musicvenues affordability urban urbanism olympia washingtonstate lineage legacy punk underground undergroundresistance place gatekeeping audience audiences radio collegeradio mentorship mentoring undergroundradio guerillaradio generations knowledge knowledgesharing intergenarational waajeed craft communalism mtv care caring bobseger atlanta sterlingtolles guiltysimpson nickspeed jdilla boldyjames maps mapmaking ethnography landscape soniclandscapes anthonybourdain memphis houston boston rap gregtate learning howwelearn solidarity politics radicalism radicalpolitics trust artmaking absurdity iloveboosters bootsriley thecoup tonimorrison dialecticalmateria https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:32e3861c6683/ 2026-06-03T07:55:36+00:00 https://www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/why-we-stand-in-lines-for-treats robertogreco lines generations genx generationx geny generationy millennials genz zoomers generationz queues qtbat consumptions consmuperism meaning community gatherings social pilgrimages fellowship religion churchgoing blackbirdspyplane https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d6e222cf6276/ 2026-05-23T05:19:01+00:00 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/a-discussion-on-the-new-novel-palaces robertogreco raynayler chrishedges war poland wwii ww2 crows corvids humannature humans human caring community fiction literature togetherness interconnected interconnectedness ussr nazigermany germany cooperation nonviolence mutualaid survival peterkropotkin totalitarianism williamgolding rootlessness evil trauma childhood human-animalrelations human-animalrelationships 2026 lordoftheflies danielberrigan faith birds siberia morethanhuman multispecies krasnovodsk resurrection manchuria turkmenistan leesandlin hitler adolfhitler society civilization children communication interspecies relationships thomasnagel experience perception pathology donaltrump hannaharendt karma poverty nourishment scarcity abundance socialism equality writing howwewrite reading howweread legacy death generations culture learning howwelearn inscription individualism extraction extractiveindividualism environment corporations corporatism disconnection history interdependence sesnes sensory waysofknowing blindness sound sensing senses modernity huma https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:476a028d3fb1/ 2026-05-12T06:40:45+00:00 https://nautil.us/is-this-why-science-advances-one-funeral-at-a-time-1280650 robertogreco science 2026 aging resreach invention innovation conservatism careers bobgrant howwework time alberteinstein disruption death generations douglasadams https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1a8d3229660f/ 2025-12-13T04:31:21+00:00 https://kyla.substack.com/p/everyone-is-gambling-and-no-one-is robertogreco kylascanlon economics democracy stability stress anxiety gambling vibecession michaelgreen johnburnmurdoch jeremyhorpedahl tylercowen paulkrugman policy inflation housing donaldtrump prosperity health healthcare healthinsurance affordability paulstarr jeantwenge bradybrickner-wood trust gregip davidbauder news collapse journalism media ai artificialintelligence bubbles aibubble misinformation scams attention infrastructure confidence optimism extraction llms labor work working employment linustorvald demishassabis markets datacenters billionaires electricity openai nvidia china airbnb energy renewables gdp investment speculation economy jobs tarekmansour kalshi financialization sports sportbetting whitneycurrywimbish emilystewart upwardmobility victorfrankl values kahliljoseph capitalism cronycapitalism technology prediction casinos regulation deregulation politics poverty experience risk generations medicare boomers babyboomers genz generationz zoomers us computing cheating scamming cognitiveoverload baumol https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0fe165f990ce/ 2025-09-24T19:25:36+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRKAzMfS4Bc robertogreco spikelee jaredball 2025 film blackcapitalism capitalism dotherighthing denzelwashington she'sgottahaveit crooklyn bellhooks malcolmx 1990s akirakurosawa elitism rap music economics bourgeoisie conservatism culture class classdiscourse exploitation hiphop generations us race civilrightsmovement inequality kamalaharris jeffreywright donlemon bootstrapping clarenceavant copaganda a$aprocky colonialism incarceration police policing musicindustry povery blackbourgeoisie https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:02a739d76750/ 2025-09-24T17:41:17+00:00 https://melzog.substack.com/p/i-have-my-fathers-eyes-and-his-temper robertogreco melzog film fathers daughters 2025 media relationships tropes masculinity patriarchy charlottewells films cinema ottessamoshfegh generations https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e969ec8bae32/ 2025-07-24T23:14:55+00:00 https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/e63-rolex-vs-gen-x/ robertogreco tolisten 2021 rolex genx generationx 1980s 1990s vintage nationalism luxury economics watches allenfarmelo umbertoeco traditionalism conservatism technology past marinetti futurism italianfuturists modernity futurists antiestablishment fascism progressivism environmentalism directaction greenpeace luddism luddites neoluddites neoluddism waltwhitman thoreau resistance left society analog liberalism liberals corporations corporatism filippotommasomarinetti filippomarinetti counterculture 1960s backtotheland communalism progress stephengreenblatt philosophy future thomasaquinas christianity atheism time democracy ancientgreece epicureanism ethics silentgeneration generations boomers babyboomers paralysisofanalysis thinking howwethink rebellion communes hippies romanticism childhood ingenuity forums flamewars online internet digital digitization change web billclinton neoliberalism globalization plannedobsolescence quality repair maintenance deindustrialization jean-claudebiver switzerland blancpain vintagenation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fc3f9345a3e8/ 2025-07-06T19:05:26+00:00 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/how-we-grow-up-understanding-adolescence-matt-richtel-book-review robertogreco 2025 mollyfischer technology teens youth mattrichtel jeantwenge jonathanhaidt mentalhealth anxiety smarthphones childhood play safety psychology lenoreskenazy socialmedia greglukianoff helicopterparenting helicopterparents parenting marypipher generations fear coddling conservatism genz generationz geny generationy millennials moralpanics zoomers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1a62299eae3b/ 2025-05-15T19:10:54+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVyBIZDwECQ robertogreco patrickboyle economics inheritance 2025 greatwealthtransfer wealth millennials boomers generations babyboomers geny generationy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9c4e6e69d798/ 2025-03-15T15:10:30+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRNxsTkIy_w robertogreco age us politics eu donaldtrump joebiden nancypelosi billclinton kamalaharris congresas 2025 gerontocracy patrickboyle uk kaygranger power ronaldreagan senate politicians mitchmcconnell dianefeinstein generations environment brexit pandemic covid-19 coronavirus economics climate climatechange wokeness conservatism priorities socialspending socialwelfare childcare welfare government governance bias inequality lifeexpectancy wealth birthrates birthrate elections cognitivedecline elderly incumbents primaries democrats twopartysystem republicans duopoly africa japan southkorea gerrymandering voting democracy cognition neuroscience banyboomers immigration crime morality housing labor work healthcare globalwarming housingcrisis softbank masayoshison cheguevara marxism truth abuse wokeism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:51a9109f34b4/ 2024-12-30T19:30:38+00:00 https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/mark-all-as-read/ robertogrecoaudreywatters 2024 reading howweread ai artificialintelligence technology edtech attention schools education genz generations generationz books zoomers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:387d804e4015/ 2024-11-22T18:20:46+00:00 https://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/in-the-news/2022/05/24/study-suggests-a-more-balanced-perspective-towards-the-relationship-between-science-and-religion-in-younger-generations robertogreco genz generationz zoomers religion science 2024 generations genx generationx geny generationy millennials boomers babyboomers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b9e8bfadd1a8/ 2024-11-05T18:58:35+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSNuacj7iqY robertogreco seiko time film watches luxury craftsmanship timelessness harmony nature presence seasons japan paulachowles ma design grandseiko grandseikokodo credor kodo zachblass enoura light cycles cyclical life living bodies misia precision ginza odawara memory hiroshisugimoto kyoto shunichitokura mountfuji trains travel blossoms shinjihattori kintarohattori seikosha tokyo measurement clocks days hours moments kengokuma nara buddhism buddha human music generations humanness present ikigai being environment temporary ephemeral humans serenity emptiness inbetween nothingness mu wood materials tea culture senses multisensory change 1923 existence universe naturalhistory industrialrevolution history watchmaking altruism reliability credibility flow ephemerality inbetweenness betweenness between https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ff163599aeb0/ 2024-09-22T02:40:07+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DheisrkCh_A robertogreco lifeexpectancy economics society sociology philosophy ethics environment generations inequality 2024 bryanalexander lifeextention immortality health healthcare pensions https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7e8949f28f64/ 2024-08-31T23:30:07+00:00 https://www.vox.com/culture/368201/volunteer-charity-donations-systemic-change-activism-nonprofits-loneliness-philanthropy robertogreco action volunteering rachelcohen 2024 activism culture nonprofit advocacy ows occupywallstreet berniesanders loneliness friendship robertputnam bowlingalone genz millennials generationz generations changemaking change naomiklein effectivealtruism charitableindustrialcomplex charities philanthropicindustrialcomplex philanthropy nonprofits volunteers arthurbrooks care caring religion redcross volunteerism us politics society ericakohl-arenas paulschervish sociology philbuchanan marksnyder alexisdetocqueville corwdfunding remittances caregiving mutualaid kinship families zoomers geny generationy charity tescreal nerdreich singularity singularitarianism extropianism rationalism cosmism longtermism transhumanism extroprianism capitalism fascism technofascism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:acccf7e3d2aa/ 2024-08-31T02:18:41+00:00 https://emergencemagazine.org/film/the-last-ice-age/ robertogreco iceland climatechange film history nature documentary glaciers forests trees time globalwarming 2024 past future anddrisnærmagnason science pilgrimage iceage blackholes climatecrisis wolfganglucht adamloften emmanuelvaughan-lee storytelling stories paradigmshift perception beagoodancestor ancestors cosmology cosmos perspective change volcanoes weather climate hardship mythology resilience landscape exploration documentation photography filmmaking land place aluminum bitcoin crypto cryptocurrencies dams rivers electricity ecosystems humility humans anthropocene fire myths myth civilization prometheus geology earth research maps mapping iceaps citizenscience humanity responsibility continuity beauty poetry love scale 1950s legacy legends discovery reality humanities witness witnessing understanding rationality spirit fun permission generations religion superstition folklore purpose holiness apocalypse beholdeness wonder awe morethanhuman animism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:826ef887fb6c/ 2024-07-31T05:04:21+00:00 https://granta.com/universal-mother/ robertogreco momtazamehri sineadoconnor 2024 music mothers anguish julientemple london ireland johnmajor pain generations generationaltrauma trauma entrapment adriennerich bobdylan barbrasreisand johnlennon catholicism camillepaglia kathrynferguson madonna blasphemy popejohnpaulii bobmarley snl saturdaynightlive franksinatra arseniohall acceptance death cruelty celebrity media fulfillment indulgences pretenses fame simoneweil tseliot agreement rejection genius saints 2023 1990s 2000s spirituality islam sinéadp'connor https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a981972b0ef4/ 2024-06-26T16:58:48+00:00 https://nearfuturelaboratory.com/blog/2024/06/episode-089-near-future-laboratory-podcast/ robertogreco silviolorusso 2024 julianbleecker design society rhetoric culture memes cryptoart art technology generations disillusionment theory criticism melancholy aspiration dystopia imagination utility satisfaction craft making engineering skepticism praxis expectations changemaking everyday cities urban urbanism urbanplanning education 1980s 1990s apple creativity innovation economics creativeclass tompeters brucemau massivechange nostalgia mckinsey fear anger ai artificialintelligence millennials awe limbo aspirations samaltman scarlettjohansson her spikejonze openai nealstephenson snowcrash catastrophe sciencefiction scifi fiction dreams collapse madmax google sora future present futurism prediction williammmorris history past conservatism socialism activism crypto cryptocurrencies bitcoin valuecreation community daos web3 metalabel nfts snobbery mediaart generativeart gatekeeping idealism moralizing images howweread howwewrite writing reading conviviality seriousness counsel suggestions advice survivorshipbias gen https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ddc3859abeb2/ 2024-06-18T16:11:23+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoblZjqqjgk robertogreco simonroper time philosophy anthropology 2024 culture cultures alfredgell logic causality perception danieleverett linearity cycles cyclical generations seasons intervals night day https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b8f40750f638/ 2024-06-04T01:08:27+00:00 https://coreyrobin.com/2024/05/31/what-i-saw-and-learned-at-a-new-york-city-student-walk-out-for-palestine/ robertogreco coreyrobin 2024 truth truthiness palestine israel generations scholasticide education knowledge gaza youth learning howwelearn https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8fad319c2524/ 2024-05-26T07:45:35+00:00 https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/prop-13-painted-ladies/ robertogreco prop13 proposition13 taxes property california 2024 alamosquare paintedladies homes housing taxation sanfrancisco namisumida inequality generations inheritance proposition19 prop19 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f72d26abfb6f/ 2024-05-12T23:41:33+00:00 https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-will-teach-you-how-to-read-we-will-teach-you-how-to-read/ robertogreco carolineyoachim 2024 stories shortstories form sciencefiction scifi reading writing howwelearn howweread howwewrite life living loss transformation love death iteration transmission culture society legacy knowledge wisdom generations commemoration inheritance repetition johnjosephadams kenliu attention workingmemory memory pedagogy teaching howweteach https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e35b31eda227/ 2024-03-24T22:14:25+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-SQuxleYtI robertogreco ilanpappé 2024 israel zionism palestine benthompson asawinstanley aliabunimah jonelmer norabarros-friedman gaza nakba history ethniccleansing genocide antizionism warcrimes apartheid 1999 2006 education dispossession occupation settlercolonialism colonialism colonization supremacy racism curriculum indoctrination propaganda dehumanization socialization idf schooling westbank stateviolence southafrica roguestates refugees egypt displacement settlers settlements kibbutzim ghettos expulsion davidben-gurion arabjews iraq dearabization northafrica whitesupremacy arabs fascism rightwing archives lebanon policy militarizaton police policing palestinianauthority openairprisons icj icc bds boycott divestment sanctions canada us arms military judaism resistance economics liberation oppression oppressors extremism ethnonationalism liberalzionism liberalism mossad secretservice europe eu departure operationalaqsaflood war violence antisemitism warfare militarization safety hezbollah weakness globalsouth onestatesoluti https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3a0b2ea802b3/ 2024-03-24T03:01:27+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTTvVh1NNwo robertogreco tiktok us confress socialmedia web online zionism china alinadotsenko ihorposhyvailo milenachorna russia gaza palestine juliaangwin russelbrandom marwafatafta evangreer rhetoric algorithms nicholasmuirhead adl jonathangreenblatt censorship media brainwashing generations genz generationz bytedance steve mnuchin politics twitter hypocrisy freedomofspeech freedomofexpression surveillance nationalsecurity genocide ethniccleansing joebiden data userdata edu privacy bigtach dataharvesting databrokers instagram benjaminnetanyahu israel freespeech antidefamationleague zoomers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:359ab3b68bf7/ 2024-03-16T17:13:06+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh0eg3IJN3M robertogreco makdisistreet 2024 sareemakdisi ussamamakdisi karimmakdisi palestine gaza israel zionism democracy freedom genocide generations us antisemitism supremacy apartheid colonialism colonization expulsion displacement dispossession erasure settlercolonialism jvp media journalism ifnotnow orthodoxy history ethics adl aipac republicans politicy policy power ethnonationalism universities colleges highered highereducation academia jonathangreenblatt upenn columbia mit harvard elisestefanik anc southafrica joebiden cynicsm complexity antizionism plo onestatesolution peterbeinart jihad nakba antidefamationleague brownuniversity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:718262998219/ 2024-03-15T01:36:07+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8S2QIHelkk robertogreco tiktok socialmedia bytedance us congress media 2024 china rameshsrinivasan donaldtrump elections palestine israel josebiden hakeemjeffries mikejohnson marjorietaylorgreene jeffyass aclu markzuckerberg india freespeach news generations politics digitalrights disinformation misinformation regulation data privacy democracy labor exploitation internet web online meta google twitter algorithms economics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:70ef6469172d/ 2024-03-15T00:56:35+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wWltkehgOw robertogreco israel tiktok palestine socialmedia propaganda lobbying china 2024 twitter us polcicy adl jonathangreenblatt news journalism media genz generationz generations elonmusk antidefamationleague zoomers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6a3714717d90/ 2024-03-03T05:59:21+00:00 https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/driving-in-circles robertogreco tracychapman music economics us society 2024 nostalgia memory generations sarahkendzior fastcar ronaldreagan 1980s 1990s lukecombs 1988 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:37067cebbac9/ 2024-01-25T23:38:38+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/opinion/internet-aging-gen-z.html robertogreco maxread internet web online generations aging zoomers genz millennials tiktok amazon google search corydoctorow cognitivedecline cognition fun kylechayka alphabet facebook markzuckerberg instagram smartphones change corporations capitalism googlesearch chatgpt generationz geny kaicenat discord twitch twitter generationalpha genalpha enshittification generationy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c27dc5cc97dd/ 2024-01-25T03:30:45+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcsnEhsvBCY robertogreco makdisistreet jeremyscahill 2024 media journalism journalists palestine israel gaza sareemakdisi ussamamakdisi karimmakdisi twitch hasanpiker generations socialmedia rashidkhalidi nytimes youth nakba information misinformation censorship standingrock us genocide ethniccleansing benjaminnetanyahu paradigmshifts resilience education refaatalareer establishment amygoodman democracynow iraq easttimor congo drc billclinton foreignpolicy noamchomsky afghanistan blackwater georgewbush dickcheney barackobama yemen imperialism militarism cia military politics drones waronterror somalia pakistan objectivity accuracy academia racism power propaganda middleeast dehumanization cnn associatedpress policy headlines danielboguslaw theintercept operationalaqsaflood covertoperations johnkirby matthewmiller resistance germany eu uk ireland spain españa antisemitism zionism shireenabuakleh thenation journalisticintegrity integrity ethics colleges universities highereducation highered globalwaronterror https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0cc45fd62797/ 2024-01-23T07:54:52+00:00 https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/housing-baby-boomers-millennials-18616143.php robertogreco2024 housing sanfrancisco generations genz genx millennials boomers realestate geny generationz zoomers generationy babyboomers generationx https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1bb99d071772/ 2024-01-02T00:50:16+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uVGEhSXhQE robertogreco palestine israel gaza 2023 2024 activism us uk internationalism generations zelliimani danaelkurd noglevy-rapoport elizabethpuranam instagram facebook meta politics protests benjaminnetanyahu joebiden marches demonstrations solidarity ferguson police policing blacklivesmatter refugees neoliberalism economics oppression media socialmedia journalism weapons arms mainstreammedia youth twitter misinformation disinformation shadowbanning freespeech genocide apartheid ethniccleansing generationgaps polling ows occupywallstreet 2014 liberation justice peace rashidatlaib censorship colonization colonialism settlercolonialism history antisemitism climatejustice climatechange globalwarming suppression jewishvoiceforpeace freedomofspeech https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:12fcfe7acfdf/ 2023-12-11T03:57:15+00:00 https://crimethinc.com/podcasts/the-ex-worker/episodes/103 robertogreco libertarianism javiermilei capitalism capitalists anarchocapitalism anarchism 2023 donaldtrump fascism jairbolsonaro uprising history right chuckmorse ángelcappelletti liberalism neoliberalism peronism resistance buenaventuradurruti osvaldobayer dictatorship crimethinc politics austerity economics privatization devaluation inflation poverty hustlerculture freedom individualism entrepreneurship entrepreneurialism unemployment scapegoating immigration racism dogwhistling socialism mauriciomacri patriciabullrich oligarchy repression violence chile pinochet chicagoboys 2001 carlosmenem left statism statistleft culturewars generations labor work solidarity unions murrayrothbard culturewar peronismo uprisings scapegoats https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f7ac648601a4/ 2023-12-06T05:32:12+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siZgRBQtCRo robertogreco bootsriley unions organizing strikes general strike palestine israel occupywallstreet ows 2023 work teachers fastfood radicals radicalization ilwu uaw solidarity history class classstruggle capitalism communism left i'mavirgo occupyoakland 1999 2012 1960s 1980s southafrica genocide apartheid bds sovietunion ussr economics civilrightsmovement hippies neoliberalism generations babyboomers genx genz millennials geny movements boomers longshoremen sorrytobotheryou art music repetition process practice goals purpose inspiration writing howwewrite cia jacksonpollock parisreview literature activism optimism hope anger howwework wga sag film generationz zoomers generationy generationx https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2f57dbce186e/ 2023-11-22T21:19:28+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CNOS0v8v5c robertogreco coreyrobin 2023 right left leftists rightwing politics history france counterrevolution adamconover class populism edmundburke elitism aristocracy bootstrappers establishment policy inequality exceptionalism donaldtrump frenchrevolution politicalscience power democracy reactionaries liberalism johnccalhoun hierarchy racism race privilege cooption reinvention self-preservation conservatism reactionarymovements fascism ww2 wwii neoconservatism hitler mussolini politicalmovements change rickperlstein statusquo civilrights richardnixon ada civilwar frederickdouglass republicans abolition slavery us irvingkristol clarencethomas gerrymandering republicanparty senate supremecourt constitution ronaldreagan workers wagneract labor law filibuster kyrstensinema joemanchin barackobama affordablecareact progressivism progress pessimism futility worldview freedom liberation blackpowermovement malcolmx racialpessimism patriarchy transformation survival votingrightsact hollywood votes voting virtue virtuousness beliefs cynic https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8d05c0350519/ 2023-09-11T20:03:15+00:00 https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-much-discomfort-is-the-whole-world-worth/ robertogrecoNot everyone we work with on a particular issue has to have deep ideological alignment with us. A skilled organizer should be able to work with people who aren’t of their own choosing, including people they don’t like. It’s really as simple as being attacked by fascist police in the streets. Once the attack begins, there are two sides: armed police inflicting violence and everyone else. We need to be able to see each other in those terms, reeling in the face of unthinkable violence, scrambling to stay alive and uncaged, and doing the work to protect one another. This will not come easily, because white supremacy and classism have forced many wedges between our communities. Great harms have been committed and very difficult conversations are needed, but refusing to do that work, in this historical moment, is an abdication of responsibility. It is no exaggeration to say that the whole world is at stake, and we cannot afford to minimize what that demands of us. This is not to say that we should seek no respite from the messiness and occasional discomfort of large-scale movement work. We all need spaces where we can operate within our comfort zone. Whether these take the shape of a collective, an affinity group, a processing space, a caucus, or a group of friends, we need people with whom we can feel fully seen and heard and with whose values we feel deeply aligned. In such a violent and oppressive world, we are all entitled to some amount of sanctuary. Many organizers have tight-knit political homes, sometimes grounded in shared identity, in addition to participating in broader organizing efforts. But broader movements are struggles, not sanctuaries. They are full of contradiction and challenges we may feel unprepared for. Effective organizers operate beyond the bounds of their comfort zones, moving into what we might call their “stretch zone,” when necessary. No one has to be able to work with everyone, but how far beyond the bounds of easy agreement can you reach? How much empathy can you extend to people who do not fully understand your identity or experience or who have not had the same access to liberatory ideas? How much discomfort can you navigate for what you believe is truly at stake? These are not questions anyone can answer for you, as we must all make autonomous choices about who we connect and build with, but if we do not challenge ourselves to navigate some amount of discomfort, our political reach will have terminal limits. To expand the practice of our politics in the world, we have to be able to organize outside of our comfort zones. People whose words and ideas don’t yet align with our own often need room to grow, and some people grow by building relationships and doing work—often in fumbling and imperfect ways. Political transformation is not as simple as handing newcomers a new set of politics and telling them, “Yours are bad, use these instead.” Instead, we will sometimes have to accompany people along messy transformational journeys. And we must also remember that no matter how far we have come, we are still on our own messy journeys, and our own transformations will continue as we grow. *** To do this kind of work, a person has to hone multiple skills, including the ability to listen. When people delve into activism, they often grapple with questions like, “Am I willing to get arrested?” when often the more pressing question for a new activist is, “Am I willing to listen, even when it’s hard?” For organizer and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore, it was her time in Alcoholics Anonymous that helped her transform her practice of listening. “The main thing that I learned,” Gilmore told us, “especially in the first couple years that I was going to meetings, was the beauty of the rule against crosstalk. It was the best thing that ever happened to me, that I couldn’t say shit to anybody. I had to listen, and I had to learn to listen.” The urge to interject or object ran deep for Gilmore. “I’ve always been a nerd, yet I’ve always been a know-it-all,” she told us, “so there’s this tension between my nerdiness that wants to know everything and my know-it-all-ness that wants everybody to know that I know it all already.” At first, listening did not come easily—or feel particularly productive—to Gilmore. “I would sit in these meetings, and I listened to people talk, and listened to them, and listened to them, and at first I was like, ‘I don’t get this, I don’t get this.’ And so for me in the early days, it was just a performance of words. I mean, my main thing was, ‘I won’t drink when I leave this meeting. I won’t drink, and I won’t use.’” But over time, Gilmore began to appreciate the role of listening in the group’s collective struggle to avoid drugs and alcohol—even when she did not appreciate what was being said. “I would be getting more and more wound up, because there’d be the sexist guy going on about women and his wife, and then there’d be somebody else talking nonsense about whatever, [but I was] learning to just sit there, and listen, and keep my eye on the prize, which was not just that I wasn’t going to drink but that the only way I could not drink was if all of us didn’t drink.” Being committed to the sobriety of every person in the room, which meant listening to their story and being invested in their well-being, helped Gilmore develop a deeper practice of patience. “That was kind of this transformation for me that carried into the organizing that I already used to do before I got sober,” she told us. It is our ability to constructively engage with other people that will ultimately power our efforts. We have to nurture that ability and respect its importance in all of the ways that our society does not. And that skill of constructive engagement starts with listening. Like so many other aspects of organizing, listening is a practice, and at times, it’s a strategic one. We might need to hear something true that makes us uncomfortable. Listening deeply makes space for that to happen. But even if the person who’s talking is off base, we can often still learn by listening to them. Why do they feel the way they do? What sources informed or convinced them? What influences them? What strengthens their resolve? What makes them hesitant to get more involved or to engage more boldly? If you are in an organizing space together, how has that issue brought them into a shared space with you despite your differences? What points of agreement might you build upon? What is surprising about them? A good organizer wants to understand these things about the people around them, and you cannot truly understand these things about a person without listening. Even if the person who’s talking is off base, we can often still learn by listening to them. Organizers will often repeat the maxim, “We have to meet people where they are at.” It is difficult to meet someone where they’re at when you do not know where they are. Until you have heard someone out, you do not know where they are, so how could you hope to meet them there? Relationships are not built through presumption or through the deployment of tropes or stereotypes. We must understand people as having their own unique experiences, traumas, struggles, ideas, and motivations that will inform how they show up to organizing spaces. Some task-focused activists brush off activities that involve “talking about our feelings.” This is a common sentiment among bad listeners. The fundamental skill of patiently absorbing another person’s words in a respectful and thoughtful manner is desperately lacking in our society. For this reason, it is folly to expect this skill to manifest itself fully formed when it is most needed, such as in a heated meeting, if we are not building a greater culture of listening in our work. A group culture that helps participants build their listening skills is an important component of successful organizing. Political education can create opportunities for people to practice listening to one another, without interruption, and interacting meaningfully with what others have contributed. For example, during the Great Depression, communist union organizers in Bessemer, Alabama, developed a practice of devoting thirty minutes of each meeting to political education. For thirty minutes, material would be read aloud—creating space to collectively listen while also allowing members who could not read the opportunity to hear the information. Members would then spend fifteen minutes discussing the material, listening to each other’s thoughts in response to the work. In organizing, we sometimes expect people, including ourselves, to shed the habits this society has embedded in us through sheer force of will, when in reality we all need practice. Activities that help us hone our practice of listening can make us better organizers, improve our personal relationships, and help us build stronger and longer-lasting movements. *** As we work to build more sustainable movements, we must think hard about our strategies for responding when organizers make mistakes. Social media can often foster a “zero-tolerance” attitude about political ignorance or missteps. Platforms like Twitter have helped facilitate tremendous accomplishments in movement work, but they have also created an arena for political performance and critique that is often divorced from relationship building or strategic aims. For many people, social media is not an organizing tool but a realm of political performance and spectatorship. A trend has emerged in which some organizers will demand performances of solidarity and awareness on social media but then critique or even tear apart those performances when they fall short or are deemed insincere. As with reality television, favorites emerge, and people are sometimes voted off the island. When the performance of solidarity via the replication of the right words or slogans becomes our central focus, it’s not surprising that responses might read as empty or even insincere. Sloganizing is not organizing, and paying righteous lip service to a cause, in the preferred language of the moment, does not empty any cages or transform anyone’s material conditions. Rather than fixating on the grammar of people’s politics, we organizers must ask ourselves what we want people to do. When debates arise around language, we must also understand the extent to which the language of dissent and liberation has shifted over time. The terms and jargon we use today do not represent an “arrival” at the “correct” words that were always out there, waiting to be found, while our predecessors flailed about in search of them. The language we uplift in movements today represents an unending process of grappling—a search for words that embody the experiences of oppressed people in relation to their history, their current conditions, and the culture they are presently experiencing. Policing language, as though our phrasing is written in law, misunderstands that pursuit and the purpose it serves. If these words merely exist to divide us into categories—those who can properly discuss ideas and those who cannot—what is their value in the pursuit of liberation? While it is important to trouble terminology and to engage with its evolution, the mastery of language does not spur systemic change or alter anyone’s material conditions. The concept of “allyship,” for example, is often grounded in presentation rather than substantive action. Similarly, people who believe they are “good people” often view goodness as a fixed identity, evidenced by their expressed feelings about injustice rather than a set of practices or actions. Goodness, to them, is a designation to be defended rather than something that they seek to generate in the world in concert with other people. Mainstream liberals often fall prey to this line of thinking because liberal politics play very heavily into political identity as being determinant of whether a person is good or bad (Democrats are good, Republicans bad). But the left can fall into its own version of this trap by treating politics as a test of how well we can perform language or recite ideas. Our movements are not driven by getting the words just right. They are driven by the goal of enacting change through collective struggle as we endeavor to both understand ideas and turn them into action. Fumbling is inevitable, but as Gilmore tells us, “practice makes different.” Dixon emphasizes that people will show up imperfectly and that organizers have to anticipate that mistakes and harm will happen. “I worry we’re creating a culture now where people are so afraid to make mistakes,” she told us. “They’re afraid to not have the analysis before they open their mouth. The bonds that I’m really trying to build within organizing are the bonds where we can divulge the things that we are nervous about, or ashamed of, or the things we need to learn, all of those areas, because that’s when I know we’re building the kind of intimacy that takes care of each other around heightened threats.” Dixon points out that when trust is lost, organizing not only becomes more difficult, but it also becomes more vulnerable to surveillance and infiltration: “A huge piece of COINTELPRO was around seeding distrust.” Therefore, she says, a key part of organizing is building bonds of trust, and that can only happen within a context where people are allowed to be vulnerable and make mistakes. Learning and growing in front of other people can be embarrassing, and even intimidating, particularly for people who have been put down or made to feel diminished in the past. Even seasoned organizers like Dixon often worry about derailing their work with a verbal misstep. “I have a small crew of other organizers where I think our text thread is mostly questions we are afraid to ask publicly,” she acknowledged. “It’s our own little political education circle, where we ask, ‘What does this mean?’ Or, ‘Is this fucked up?’ Or, ‘What is the right way to say this? Because I don’t think this is right.’” Dixon says that she believes “everyone needs that text thread,” but she also hopes that more of our movement spaces can operate in the same spirit and offer opportunities for people to “feel safe in their process of transforming.” Creating trust-based movement spaces also puts us in a better place to confront harm and conflict, Dixon says. “The biggest part of the work is how we maintain relationships while navigating harm,” she told us. “Because that’s the thing, that will break your group. That’ll break any project.” Dixon stresses the importance of conflict resolution and accountability mechanisms within groups—that is, group- or community-based methods of confronting harm, such as peace circles and transformative justice. But she also reminds us that in order for accountability mechanisms to serve their purpose, people need room and opportunities to grow. “People need to build skills and mechanisms to navigate conflict. Sometimes we’re not apologizing. Sometimes we’re not accountable. Sometimes we have done harmful things. Sometimes we’re doing things we were never told go against the norms [of the group] and then are being held accountable.” In an organizing space, accountability should not be about policing or punishment, but our punitive impulses can sometimes twist accountability mechanisms into those shapes. It’s easy to forget how imperfectly we ourselves have shown up in movement spaces and throughout our lives. Sometimes our aggravation with others is rooted in pain or trauma we have experienced; sometimes it is rooted in our uneasiness about things we may have said or done that were equally upsetting because we did not always know what we know now. And regardless of how much we believe we have learned, as the saying goes, we don’t know what we don’t know. Many of us would not be in this work today if someone along the way had not been patient with us. Even if we never develop a sense of mutual respect and understanding, or even come to like the people we’re working with, we can still build power with them. In many cases, we must. After all, the whole world is at stake. 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Poor & nonwhite women were never in position to be stay at home wives & that post-war ideal of white femininity relied heavily on poorer women acting as domestic laborers in other ppl’s homes… 1/ …It was more so about expanding a status typically reserved for wealthy white women to a larger population of middle & working class white women as a marker of the nation’s prosperity. I’ve never known a generation of women in my family for instance who didn’t have to work. 2/2”]]> samanthahancox-li us gender ww2 wwii history 1946 genderroles babyboomers generations childhood civilrightsmovement race society economics patriarchy politics policy worldwarii worldwar2 boomers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f6410d483e51/ 2020-09-19T22:25:51+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4OGYc7cvKo robertogreco tobyrollo fascism parenting donaldtrump 2020 education children discipline familyvalues conservatism protest criticalthinking blackpantherparty blackpanthers angeladavis history school schooling curriculum unschooling deschooling learning freedom democracy families liberation germany babyboomers 1920s childwelfare spca elbridgethomasgerry childabuse maryellenwilson parentsrights childrensrights rights tv television sesamestreet fredrogers mrrogers danielgottlobmoritzschreber control childrearing strictness authority authoritarianism johannahaarer nazis nazism hitleryouth violence obedience hierarchy demagogues demagoguery 1939 wwii ww2 belonging order childhood theodoreadorno us erichfromm wilhelmreich psychology sociology herbertmarcuse bertramschaffner philippeariès lloyddemause alicemiller mortonschatzman katharinarutschky dorothywhipple madelinedixon benjaminspock 1940s 1950s 1930s 19060s 1970s 1980s ronaldreagan 1990s capitalism advertising blaiseryan summerhill asneill teaching alternative schoolines https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b713d418ff44/ 2020-09-12T19:36:00+00:00 https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/higher-ed-in-crisis/ robertogreco via:gautam 2020 danieldenvir tithibhattacharya danielbessner simontorracinta highereducation highered coronavirus covid-19 education academia us funding neoliberalism teaching faculty adjuncts governance tuition studentdebt purpose academics learning 2008 greatrecession finance finances inequality austerity administration leadership endowments management 1980s coldwar china ronaldreagan demographics debt purdue labor work economics policy publiceducation publicschools anticapitalism antiracism racism identity sexism antisexism capitalism socialmovements diversity tenure elitism status society organizing unions grassroots gradstudents berniesanders socialism left palestine freedom howweteach liberalism politics expertise technocracy wokeness joebiden ideology cancelculture generations berniebros online web internet generationalwarfare antiwokeness politicalcorrectness donaldtrump liberalarts humanities bullshitjobs anxiety autonomy admissions davidgraeber future experts democracy science democrats republicans https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:579fb6021bab/ 2020-04-23T22:30:09+00:00 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryancbrooks/gen-z-young-millennials-coronavirus-pandemic-recession robertogrecogenz generationz millennials 2020 coronavirus covid-19 catastrophe generations us pandemic 9/11 greatrecession 2008 2001 2005 hurricanekatrina economics politics policy governance government socialsafetynet radicalization financialcrisis crisis recession employment poverty pandemics globalfinancialcrisis zoomers geny generationy katrina https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2f4c32ae71ae/ 2020-02-17T23:10:19+00:00 https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-millennialgen-z-strategy robertogreco(1) The unemployment rate among recent college graduates in the U.S. is now higher than our country’s overall unemployment rate for the first time in over two decades, (2) More than 40 percent of recent college graduates are working jobs that do not traditionally require a bachelor’s degree (while one in eight are stuck in posts that pay $25,000 or less), and (3) the median income among the bottom half of college graduates is roughly 10 percent lower than it was three decades ago. This is the millennial (and Old Gen-Zer) reality: an “anchor of student debt,” as Levitz puts it, taken out in the hopes of achieving fabled economic security. But who convinced us that college was going to solve, well, everything? In the book I’m finally finished writing on millennial burnout (actual cover coming soon, I promise) I try to work through that question: how did we come to believe in “(the best) college at any cost”? (See also: grad school at any cost). A lot of the answer can be traced to “the education gospel,” a term coined by an economist (W. Norton Grubb) and a sociologist (Marvin Laverson) to describe the nexus of ideologies (about the future of America and democracy; about how to beat the USSR, then Japan, then China; about how the economy could replace the manufacturing jobs displaced by globalization) that undergird “college at any cost.” Grubb and Laverson chose the word “gospel” to evoke just how ideological integrated — how naturalized — the idea had become. Of course more education is better than less education; of course you should go to college by any means necessary — even when the costs of that college outweigh the benefits, despite increasing evidence that college is not “worth” its cost for those who drop-out, or for those who come from lower-class backgrounds. They point to a study from the National Commission on the High School Senior year, released in 2001: “In the agricultural age, post-secondary college was a pipe dream for most Americans,” it declared. “In the Industrial Age, it was the birthright of only a few. By the space age it became common for many. Today, it is just common sense for all.” The roots of this “common sense” go back to the mid-20th century, when the government decided to create the grant and loan programs that made it much, much easier for people to go to college. In 1947, 4.2% of women and 6.2% of men had a college degree; in 2018, those numbers had risen to 35.3% and 34.6% — but that’s of the entire population. A more useful statistic is the percentage of high school graduates who immediately enroll in college: which, in 2016, was 69.7%. And here’s where the stats become really telling. For the group of students who started college — any type of college — in 2011, only 56.9% had finished their degree by 2017. Around 70% of graduates have student debt of some sort; in 2016, the average debt load was $37,172. That’s a huge amount of debt, especially given the fact that it’s $20,000 more than it was in 2003. But that’s the people who have degrees. If you reverse the completion stat above, you realize that 43.1% of students who started college in 2011 had not finished their degree in six years. These are students who believed that college could be a pathway towards success, of stability, or their dream job — but couldn’t make it work. There are so many reasons why people are forced (or choose) to drop out of school, and some do find success and stability because they quit school. But they often have nearly as much debt as those with a degree but none of the credentials to put on their resumes — which helps explain why they’re three times as likely to default on their loans. The institution that pisses me off the most in this scenario are for-profit colleges, where only 23% of students graduate, and 48% of those who do leave with more than $40,000 in debt. A whopping 52% of student loan defaults come from graduates of for-profit colleges. If you don’t know about the general scamminess and ethical grossness of the for-profit college, I can’t recommend Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Lower Ed enough (you can buy it here, and read an excerpt here). But if college is theoretically an “equality machine,” then for-profit colleges are inequality machine: they target first generation students, they disproportionately enroll (and fuck over) students of color, they charge massive amounts of money for degrees and education that could be obtained for far less at local community colleges, they jack up their price to the maximum allotted under loan guidelines, and they get away with it because 1) Betsy DeVos and 2) millennials have been so inculcated with the education gospel that, again, we believe that no matter how much it costs, how difficult it will be to complete a degree, how tight the market might be in the field we’re pursuing, the degree itself will be worth it. To be clear: people with college degrees make more, statistically speaking, than people without college degrees. But the “equality” component of the machine is broken. There’s a massive gap between the promises that floated around that degree — and that includes graduate degrees — and the lived post-degree experience. We’re not talking about liberal arts graduates ski-bumming until they decide they’re ready for that six-figure job. We’re talking about those 40% of graduates working jobs that don’t even require a college degree, and the one in eight working jobs that pay $25,000 or less. I’ve talked to and heard from hundreds of millennials in this position. If they have loans, they’re either on income-based repayment (and they’re convinced that they’ll be paying them off forever), in default (with reverberations and shame across the rest of their lives), or in deferment (amassing huge amounts of interest). They feel stupid and ashamed that they took out as much money as they did, or pissed that so many forces in their lives — parents, guidance counselors, professors, culture, peers — assured them that it would all work out, if they could just get that degree. It’s hard to convey just how difficult and devastating it is to pay down a broken dream every single month for the rest of your life. I’ve written extensively about student loans, and the broken state of the student loan forgiveness program, here. That piece was the first thing I wrote after the original millennial burnout article, because it was the most tangible expression of the gap between what millennials were told their future would look like, if only they worked hard enough, and the lived, post-Recession reality. To understand millennial burnout, you can’t just understand the amount of student loans we’re carrying; you have to understand what they feel like. And if and when you understand that, it’s incredibly straightforward to see why so many support Sanders and Warren. Back in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, middle-class boomers and young Gen-Xers were faced with the reality that their parents’ broadly stable middle-class existence would not necessarily pass down to them. The so-called Golden Age of American Capitalism had lasted just long enough that those who grew up under it could believe that it might last forever. They responded to the decline in stable middle class jobs in a number of ways: many of them, too, went to college, but because public institution funding had yet to be gutted by tax cuts, it cost much, much, much less. (Cue: your boomer uncle who loves to tell you he worked his way through college and graduated without loans). But as Barbara Ehrenreich persuasively argues in Fear of Falling, they responded by turning decisively inward: how can I do whatever is possible to help me and mine? You could work tirelessly at cutthroat, soulless jobs (investment banking!) no matter the cost (to yourself, to your family, to the environment, to society), adopting what Ehrenreich calls “the yuppie strategy.” Or you could vote for politicians who promised to lower your taxes, make your life better, regardless of the effects on those who didn’t act and spend and look like you. (See: the widespread embrace of Reaganism). As Levitz points out, in 1984, 61% of voters under 25 voted for Reagan. Conservativism — think Michael J. Fox as Alex Keaton from Family Ties — was, I dunno, cool? Not actually cool, but very much mainstream. The strategy makes “sense,” in so far as it was motivated by self-preservation and fear. And a whole lot of millennials were raised by parents who lived through, if not fully embraced, the guiding ideologies of that period. But it’s fascinating to watch as millennials and Gen-Z — — faced not just with the fear of falling, but the widespread reality — embrace a profoundly different one."]]> genz millennials generations geny education highered highereducation debt studentdebt boomers wnortongrubb ericlevitz unemployment employment wages loans unschooling deschooling educationgospel marvinlaverson ussr coldwar japan china highschool inequality commonsense investment parenting betsydevos nonprofits nonprofit forprofits capitalism berniesanders elizabethwarren barbaraehrenreich ronaldreagan reaganism conservatism familyties alexkeaton michaeljfox tressiemcmillancottom race generationz generationy learning babyboomers zoomers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a06148b61430/ 2019-12-12T20:18:40+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/style/its-karentown.html robertogreco patriarchy sarahmiller feminism generations 2019 centrism selfhood freedom happiness karens whiteness pettiness sameness bullying economics education pedagogy unschooling deschooling groupthink brainwashing injustice justice socialjustice intersectionality race racism gender power learning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4ae14ad60cc8/ 2019-12-12T20:13:45+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/young-left-third-party/603232/ robertogreco politics us 2019 derekthompson progressive berniesanders boomers generations geny millennials government medicareforall highered highereducation justice socialjustice economics priorities democrats democracy socialism medicare socialsecurity wealth inequality babyboomers generationy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f4ab62a769a7/ 2019-12-12T02:18:11+00:00 https://emergencemagazine.org/story/on-time-and-water/ robertogreco time scale climatechange generations geology glaciers iceland 2019 andrisnærmagnason planet environment history naturalhistory water longnow https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:65c3164c9932/ 2019-10-21T07:33:12+00:00 https://twitter.com/Dymaxion/status/1184057421095940096 robertogreco technology infrastructure systems systemsthinking systemschange conviviality 2019 society power civilization governance unions organizing labor capital utopia history vision canon interoperability time generations maintenance community control layering layers scale growth socialcontrol deschooling unschooling capitulation geopolitics politics policy local programmability eleanorsaitta https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5c63bfa5000b/ 2019-09-11T08:00:00+00:00 https://gen.medium.com/gen-x-is-having-a-very-gen-x-moment-3782644b92bf robertogreco generations apocalypse genx momuments unproduct 2019 politics 2020 elections civilization legacy generationx https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8aafd11504c1/ 2019-09-06T17:10:59+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/america-without-family-god-or-patriotism/597382/ robertogreco derekthompson us culture society economics generations change religion patriotism families 2019 suicide middleage purpose meaning community anxiety malaise collapse vulnerability traditions marriage parenting millennials geny genx generationy generationx generationz gender work labor unemployment hope hopelessness activism skepticism power elitism democrats republicans politics education highered highereducation ronaldreagan reaganism belief diversity voting unions siliconvalley socialjustice justice impotency underemployment spirituality capitalism neoliberalism genz learning zoomers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:486435b91f0d/ 2019-07-13T19:43:14+00:00 https://twitter.com/Remember_Sarah/status/1149738082435919872 robertogreco slow small life living generations 2019 unschooling deschooling suceess debt children sarahmarshall https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a8ae5340ea24/