Andrew Schmookler: That sounds like the same thing to me.
Rob Kall: And I'm not saying there are studies. I'm saying that that's my theory, and that
I've based it on a lot of observations: that they've grown up with a very
different experience that has led them to see and do things differently.
Andrew Schmookler: Well that's a very interesting idea,
Rob. If it is true, that would be one of
those interesting ways that technology like the birth-control pill and [the
computer] have had an impact on the development of culture. One of the things I do think, in any event,
though, is that the older generation of people in rural Virginia that I know
and I think about (among others) when I talk about the hierarchical culture? I
think that the older members are essentially not going to be -- that nut is not
going to be cracked. It is too dug in,
and I just don't see those people ever saying, "Jeez. I was wrong for twenty years."
Rob Kall: So maybe we're dealing with a situation like
Moses taking two generations out into the wilderness: we've got to wait for the
next generation to come, and some of the darkness and destructiveness will
pass.
Andrew Schmookler: I think one of the places we should be
directing our messaging is to the children of the people in the uncracked
nut. They don't have as much
invested. They wouldn't have to say
"I've blown it for my whole adult life," or something like that. There is less to overcome, less habit of
thought, less invested, so I think that those are the people who are likely to
be reachable. And then there are the
people in the middle: who are not wedded to the Right, but haven't really seen
what's going on (a lot of them don't see very profoundly at any time what's
going on, they don't know much), but they have a feeling for what the
atmosphere is in the society around them , so they're likely to vote according
to their sense of things, gleaned from the vibes and an occasional remark.
Rob Kall: I'm in the middle of writing an article now
about The Walking Dead. It's one
of the hottest TV series going, and for the generation 18-49, for those
demographics, it's out-pulling network television, which is just about unheard
of.
Andrew Schmookler: I'm not familiar with the show.
Rob Kall: Well, my kids, my twenty-something sons got
me into it. It's about a
post-apocalyptic time, and books that are post-apocalyptic are incredibly
popular now, like The Hunger Games, for instance, is one. But all the stories about zombies; one of my
friends is a best-selling novelist who writes about zombies, and /
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