Glossary
Rule by elderly baby boomers who hold money and power while preventing younger generations from developing leadership experience.
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gerontocracy
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Key Notes
Glossary
Jiang defines it as rule by old people and uses it as the lecture's main explanation of Western decline.
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Glossary
The prior-class model the student references, where elderly pensioners control society because culture and government orient around them.
Glossary
Jiang uses the term for Western societies whose governments and wealth structures are politically captured by the baby-boomer and elderly generation.
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model
For a nation or community to survive, Jiang says it must shift from materialism to spirituality, from individuality to community and family, and from elderly control to younger leadership.
definition
Jiang defines gerontocracy as rule by old people and frames the lecture as a move from theories of Western decline to concrete trends and examples.
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diagnosis
He argues that older people, especially very old officeholders, increasingly dominate society and policy, with gerontocracy visible in the U.S. Senate and former leaders such as Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, Dianne Feinstein, and Chuck Grassley.
prediction
He predicts a gerontocratic world will respond to viruses with lockdowns because old people prioritize safety from germs.
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prediction
He predicts gerontocracy will demand immigrant and student labor to care for elderly people, more prisons because elderly people fear criminals, and recurring wars because elderly people can send young people to die.
model
He says gerontocratic control can persist for a long time because as one elderly cohort dies, the next aging cohort replaces it, and wars kill young people rather than old people.
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diagnosis
Jiang says elderly pensioners control Chinese society culturally and politically because respect for elders is built into Chinese social structure from childhood.
diagnosis
Because baby boomers are a large share of the population and hold wealth and political power, they can dictate government policy.
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"So for a nation, for a community to survive in the future, there has to be three major changes. And if you're able to..."
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"...industrial nations, are controlled by the baby boomers, the elderly, the gerontocracy. They have all the money, they have all the power, but for..."
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"The younger, the better. And you think this is easy to do. It's not. Because first of all, these baby boomers have access to..."
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"...generation by the elderly um the west has basically become a gerontocracy this is true everywhere united states europe australia canada and um az..."
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"...when the American people stopped believing in the competence of the gerontocracy. So you have all these issues. And so for the American elite,..."
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"...situation right now in the United States, where you have this gerontocracy, these people in their 80s who live in their own bubble, who..."
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"...that was titled like, you know, we live in an international gerontocracy. Trump, Biden, Modi, Xi Jinping is not quite as advanced in age..."
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"And echoing the question I just read, yeah, how does age and health of all of these leaders simultaneously play a role in what's..."
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"they did after 9 -11 and they would have condemned what happened to Kirk and say, it's okay to disagree because that's what democracy..."
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"So they're sort of out of ideas and they're just like, their concern is just like, like just to live. I mean, like they..."
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"So good afternoon class. Today we do death by gerontocracy. Gerontocracy just means rule by old people. Last class we discussed the decline of..."
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"There's no money in the pension fund for you. Because all that money is gone. Why? Because there are too many retirees and not..."
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