tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185006510361958248.post642331490342152065..comments2022-12-02T13:25:14.142-05:00Comments on Musings of an Aging Boomer: When a rich country acts like an international social service agencymusings of an aging boomerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03299162127286801197noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185006510361958248.post-12073535275709879212016-11-14T11:04:54.334-05:002016-11-14T11:04:54.334-05:00"This sense of dread, in turn, bleeds easily ..."This sense of dread, in turn, bleeds easily into ethno-racial anxiety when the benefits of that imagined future seem to belong increasingly to people who seem culturally alien, to inheritors who aren’t your natural heirs. For this reason mass immigration, the technocratic solution to the economic problems created by post-familialism — fewer workers supporting more retirees — is a double-edged sword: It replaces the missing workers but exacerbates inter-generational alienation, because it heightens anxieties about inheritance and loss" - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/opinion/sunday/the-post-familial-election.html?_r=0musings of an aging boomerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03299162127286801197noreply@blogger.com