Post 1980s Generation in India and China

Both India and China, the two most populous countries, are entering a phase of their respective history when a significant proportion of their population are born without any legacy idealogy. It's going to be traumatic

I belong to the post-80’s generation. How is it possible for me not to be dispirited? It’s enough of a f**king accomplishment that I’m somehow still alive! (TeaLeafNation)

Thinking for themselves

Seth Godin, as usual, hits the nail.

Marketing, like all forms of art, requires us to learn to see. To see what's working and to transplant it, change it and amplify it.
We don't teach this, but we should. We don't push people to practice the act of learning by analogy, because it's way easier to just give them a manual and help them avoid thinking for themselves.