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Rule by elderly baby boomers who hold money and power while preventing younger generations from developing leadership experience.
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gerontocracy
Rule by elderly baby boomers who hold money and power while preventing younger generations from developing leadership experience.
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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.
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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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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"...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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"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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"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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"...throughout the world. And this leads us to the idea of gerontocracy. Okay? This is Joe Biden, President of the United States, and this..."
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"The guy's, this is a brain freeze. The guy should not be one of the most powerful men in America, but he is. That's..."
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"And so, what does that mean? Well, it means that the world will go into lockdown. Whenever there's a virus, guess what? We're all..."
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"Microchip implants, guys! Right? Isn't that great? You, before you had cell phones, then you had, uh, facial recognition. And in the future, you..."
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"...war. All right? This is what it means by death by gerontocracy. This is what it means to live in a world governed by..."
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"And also what this chart tells us is that when the green goes away the red becomes the green. Right? So you'll always have..."
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"last class and i'll answer it first all right from last class you mentioned that um the ones that control society are those old..."
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