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In the day after Brexit, I am reading many comments of young Brits angry because old people 'have stolen their future'
Young people voted massively against Brexit, whereas elderly people supported it.
I wonder if this is not another movement of the system to divide population even more. Modern feminism has already made the gender gap bigger, perhaps they try now to create a hug generational gap?
Young people may have a longer future ahead of them, but older people have lived longer, seen more, and are harder to influence and manipulate.

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xVellx · 36-40, M

I think it is probably coincidence. Where I live (the United States), for example, there were fairly clear advantages to disseminating "right-wing" Neoliberal propaganda for the course of the previous generation. There are plenty who still attempt to do this, but it is increasingly receiving a crickets-and-tumbleweeds response from the people, as the Bush years appear to the have thoroughly discredited much of that paradigm.

What is sometimes awkwardly called "cultural Marxism" was around that whole time already, mostly rooted in the longstanding bastions of "left-wing" propaganda (entertainment media and university campuses). It was long coolly regarded by most of the elite, though, because there was an alien geopolitical power, the USSR, which was adept in various ways at turning this package of propaganda to its own advantage in foreign populations, and from which more than a few of its core concepts in fact originated. But now that there is no longer a rival power likely to use this paradigm against them, many elites are increasingly seeing the advantages of propagating it to the people. I do not think it was planned so far in advance to indoctrinate one generation this way, the other that.