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> 5. If you combine the "cult of new" with what I call "the arrogance
>    of the youth", you get an explosive mixture. Before you think that
>    I want to talk bad about younger people: I just talk from personal
>    experience. I was a graduate myself years ago and believe me: I
>    was arrogant! I knew better! I had to learn humbleness the hard
>    way, and I am still not sure if I arrived (it is a lot easier to
>    judge an old self than to judge the current self). So, I do not
>    want to reproach any young person for being somewhat arrogant. I
>    guess that is natural and also healthy to a certain degree because
>    it helps against persisting in outdated ideas as an industry. But
>    in a culture of new, this habit works as an unhealthy accelerant.

We actually live in gerontocratic societies and the power of young people
is just an illusion.  Age of US congressists[*] is a good evidence of that.
Young people are just being used by soft power to agressively market
new technologies.  What it is truth however, is that they enjoy playing
their part at the stage, and they are even convinced of it themselves.
Lennart is a paradigmatic example.

[*] https://blog.datawrapper.de/age-of-us-senators-charts/