Intergenerational solidarity is a political choice, not an automatic bond

Evidence

It’s not even as if the young have the alternatives to higher education that once existed. So here they are: the ConDemned, and it’s down to us whether we stand with them or watch them get further sold out and abandoned. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1517

Categorization

• APHORISMS: The whole passage’s point — whether one finds it conscionable to stand by while the young are denuded of privileges one took for granted — is genuinely timeless advice on generational obligation.
• XREF: connects to: Group solidarity and identity fade or persist through intergenerational transmission practices. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 64; Constitutional states depend on founding solidarity that later generations must renew through participation — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 85

Broader Connections

• Constitutional states depend on founding solidarity that later generations must renew through participation #corroborates (0.85) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 85
• Group solidarity and identity fade or persist through intergenerational transmission practices. #complicates (0.80) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 64