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).

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