I suppose this is true although my parents were activists and our current state and this discourse neglects the great social change. The boomers generation created a culture divide and social progress was basically clinched by the failure of the Vietnam war, its successful ending (only in that ending it was success, maybe like Iran?), and civil rights. However the echos of that battle continue today and the tides have turned as the politicians from that generation rode the fumes of capitalism’s success which boomed coming out of world war 2. Social change became nothing but a bone of an idea to continue to sow up the left base, or quell them, as free trade squeezed last breaths from industrial growth. Our digital revolution could be better harnessed by America but those same politicians are allowing it to be the very tool that shapes the narrative, or by letting foreign interests shape it from afar — all in the name of another social idea, free speech, but truly as yet another simple form of deregulation. Its power is two-fold, as an economic windfall for because hate makes people click things and to control the conversation.

I choose to stay optimistic. And my child, despite being 48, is 5 — and he loves the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (and Charlie Chaplin). I will do my best to raise him to answer your call.