On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Bruce Bostwick <lihan161...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:53 AM, John Williams <jwilliams4...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Julia <ju...@zurg.net> wrote: >>> >>> "The old people" don't equate to "the old culture". There's a fairly >>> large >>> intersection of the two, but neither is a subset (proper or improper) of >>> the >>> other. >> >> I understand that, but as you say, "there's a fairly large >> intersection of the two". >> I agree, which is why I posed my question. I don't think the fact that >> there is not a perfect correspondence of "old culture" with "old >> people" answers my question. > > It's not an absolute correlation.
Didn't I just agree with that in the text quoted above? I don't understand your point. My point, to borrow Julia's phrasing, is that since there is "a fairly large intersection of the two" (but not a perfect correlation), that the "old people" and the "old culture" should have approximately equal political power. Then I picked a political issue (SS, MC) that old people are generally in favor of, but which young and middle-aged people should favor much less, and asked why, if the old culture has so little power, they appear to have control of the issue. I don't believe any of the replies so far have directly addressed my question. The closest thing I saw was the implication that young people don't really care about the costs (and I'm not sure I believe that, anecdotal evidence notwithstanding). _______________________________________________ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
