Gen Z and Beyond Encourage Them or Lose Them Millennial angst and resentment towards the Boomer generation, particularly the affluent types, provides Generation X with a chance not to miss. Boomers are astonished that their own generational struggles have become denigrated by the younger generations and this disparity has been an inter-generational sore point for years.(See reference: […]
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Part One of this blog series discussed whether the commencement of the 2nd Trump Administration would alter the political will and allegiances of highly educated professionals and the techno-managerial class- Will they remain under the influence of a left-leaning ideology prevalent in recent decades or yield to the new administration’s political manifesto to retain their
This part of the blog series on the political ascendancy of the professional and managerial classes (PMC) shall comment on the return of Donald Trump as 47th President of the USA and the reaction to the result, and future challenges ahead. Introduction It shall refer to the politically influential left leaning (or liberal in US
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Please read the first part of the blog here. It seems that from older cultural perspective old habits persist for reasons of cultural belonging and a sense of home. While with the expression of group identity via social media or the achievement of a university degree where not only individual grades but the institutes place
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The half-forgotten yet still familiar habits and customs that maintain a social-class system beyond its original state and why those habits and social customs provided people with a sense of belonging and common cause in the country and the social hierarchy where they live. A Brief History: Cultural sensibilities and affiliations arise and deepen through
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Nearing the quarter century mark of the 21st century why are we still using terminology from the 18th century, regarding the sitting arrangements of pre-revolutionary France’s Estates-General, forerunner to the current Assemblée National? Wherein, the royalists’ supporters sat on the right of the assembly and the anti-royalists on the left of Louis XVI’s legislature, who
Do the Terms Left-Wing and Right-Wing Still Mean Anything? Read More »
The complicity blog’s conclusion (Little Deal Clincher, August 2023) mentions of the Problem of Appropriate Accountability which concerns citizens who are substantially removed from decision-making or effective influence over events. These events can be political, military, or commercial. It is where culpability and complicity are retrospectively applied, after injustices or accusations of such have occurred,
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With the renaming and relaunching of the Little Deal Clincher blog to Navigating the Challenges of 21st Century Life: A Private Investor’s Perspective. It shall continue to comment on investment from the private investor’s perspective and to discuss political and cultural issues. The update makes the website easier to navigate with an archive of topic
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Since the January 2022 blog, a rather lot economically and geo-politically has occurred, namely war in Ukraine which has given cause or excuse to global inflationary concerns with rising food and commodity prices. Fuel bills soared in 2022 with prices caps being introduced the alleviate consumer concerns. Prices for gas have since fallen although UK
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