Baby boomers are now well into the eighth decade of their lives, their role in and economic contribution to society now irrevocably changed from production to consumption.
And their consumption will predominantly involve the purchase of food and medicines (and in my case, alcohol), not the trading in of last year's BMW for the latest model.
The assets of the average Boomer have been accrued through frugality, and frugality is a cloth not lightly shed.
Ageism, discrimination on the basis of age, may be relevant and acceptable in the case of, say, selecting applicants for the position of second rower in a premiership Rugby League team - a five year old or a seventy-five year old each being unlikely to contribute to the team in a positive sense - but irrelevant and unacceptable in the case of a nuclear physicist.
And age is unrelated to the relative merits of Joe Biden and Donald Trump as candidates for the position of President of the United States: (Biden is clearly cogent at 78; Trump, clearly presenile at 74).
Anyway, returning to the topic, Ian Rankin, aged 60, best known as the author of the Rebus novels, has agreed to complete William McIlvanney's unfinished final novel.*
William McIlvanney, the godfather of "tartan noir", died in 2015, at the age of 79.
The handwritten manuscript of the novel was found by his widow among his papers.
So. Lots of old bastards doing clever things.
Might be time for me to start writing the novel.
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* Canongate will publish "The Dark Remains", by McIlvanney and Rankin, on 2 September 2021.
BUY IT! Or Ned and Bubbles will visit you in the middle of the night to discuss your purchasing decisions with you.
Ta.
Ben (aged 75)
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I can attest to the fact that you don't want to mess with Ned and/or Bubbles.
It may be theoretically possible to distract Ned by offering him a beer, but Bubbles (6'2", 245 lbs) takes his commitments very seriously, and will dedicate himself to completing his tasks before taking refreshment.
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