but I’ve been sitting with a conversation many of us have been having online — the growing tension between older and younger generations, and the gap between the perceptions and the realities each group carries.
I just released a new Substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/larrybutch/p/dispatches-from-the-empire-the-empire?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webArticle that digs into this topic with the same depth and structure as my book The Synthetic Empire. In this piece, I’m not just describing the moment we’re in — I’m doing three things that are missing from most of the current dialogue:

-How we got here — the history, the culture, the policy choices, and the economic shifts that shaped this generational divide.

-The implications — what this means for Millennials, Gen Z, and yes, for Boomers too.