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Interesting insight from an interview with SciFi author William Gibson from earlier in the year:
"UG: Some people ridicule Obama for presenting himself as a kind of Messiah. There is even a blog dedicated to the phenomenon. If Bush is the real believer, then Obama sounds more like a pop version of religion, very superficial.
William Gibson: I think it’s an American modality, and it does not necessarily mean that he would be a worse president than George Bush. Transcendence is part of the American cultural experience and I wouldn’t expect it to go away. It hasn’t been popular for a long time. It takes a particular kind of darkness to bring it out. It tends to emerge in times of major generational shift. The Obama-Clinton race seen from ten or twenty years in the future won’t be about race or gender or politics in the usual sense, it will be about age. If Obama is elected, the people who will vote him into office are going to be very young, and they will be voting for the first time. The number of people turning up to vote in the Democratic primaries this year are unprecedented and are vastly greater than the number of people turning up to vote in the Republican primaries. Something’s going on; I think it’s probably a generational shift. Not that the ’60s are coming back, God forbid, but it might be another version of that..."
- Young Americans have finally been forced out of apathy.MrOneHundred
- all the young dudes?DrBombay
- Different generation really...the Millenials/Y have the numbers - bigger than the baby Boom..TheBlueOne
- ..Xer's like myself are a tiny demographic squeezed between two monsters..TheBlueOne
- ...explains alot on the lack of a valid youth movement for the last 20 years,,TheBlueOne
- Targeted by materialism rather than idealism.MrOneHundred
- Well, just didn't have the demographic weight and heft either....it sometimes comes down to numbers..TheBlueOne
- Y is around 25-30 million people larger than X was...TheBlueOne
- Baby Boom: 76 Million
Xer: 51 Million
Y: 79 MillionTheBlueOne