From Ryan Burge, tweet, 2 July 2021.
Cultures can be changed; movements can be built. But as these examples all suggest, this is not a quick task. Culture wars are long wars. Instilling new ideas and overthrowing existing orthodoxies takes time—usually two to three generations of time. It is a 35-50 year process. . . .
The logic of cohort change can be grasped by the graphic at the top of this essay. . . . America’s future is godless not because the God-fearing were convinced of the errors of their faith, but because their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren never adopted their faith to start out with. Cultures do not change when people replace old ideas with new ones; cultures change when people with new ideas replace the people with old ones.
From The Scholar's Stage.
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"cultures change when people with new ideas replace the people with old ones."
cultures change when old people die
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