Tag: gen z
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The Powell Memo: The Blueprint Nobody Reads But Everyone Lives In August 1971, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell—soon to be elevated to the Supreme Court—sent a confidential memorandum to his friend Eugene Sydnor at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He titled it “Attack on American Free Enterprise System.” The tone was martial. Powell wrote:…
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Or: How the pre‑1970 generation built a single ladder, pulled it up, and then blamed the young for not climbing it Last time, we argued that baseline liberalism – adults are adults, let them fail, let them love whom they choose – is the path of least resistance. But we left a question hanging: what…
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Gen Z protesters from Nairobi to Jakarta are shaking governments and rewriting the rules of resistance. At first glance, it looks like pure generational rebellion—tech‑savvy youth fed up with corruption, unemployment, and a political class that has failed them. But dig deeper, and a more complex picture emerges. The same grievance‑for‑profit machinery that fuels Western…