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**Tobias Schneider** @tobiaschneider 2025-08-19 One of the side effects of an aging society is that what I call the "median Weltanschauung", the year in which the average citizen formed their beliefs about society and the world, drifts further and further from current reality > 2025-08-19 > > Was at a dinner party last week with two otherwise smart educated guests who talked extensively about the “overpopulation problem”. I don’t get it, do people just not know? x.com/davquinn/statu… --- **Tobias Schneider** @tobiaschneider [2025-08-21](https://x.com/tobiaschneider/status/1958395943537213813) If I had to put a number to it, Germany's median Weltanschauung sits around 1999, which is a funny coincidence... [image] --- **Angular Ocean** @AngularOcean [2025-08-21](https://x.com/AngularOcean/status/1958440041396457754) The Weltanschauung overhang is real --- **Alexander Clarkson ** @APHClarkson [2025-08-20](https://x.com/APHClarkson/status/1958152307260207213) Up to a point, I'd argue that these time lags between formative period in shaping elite generation consensus and developments on the ground was always a problem. As an example the German policymakers who called the shots in 1914 had their formative years under Bismarck. --- **sys** @ksusys [2025-08-21](https://x.com/ksusys/status/1958397809541140608) the current reality is that the massive (and growing) human population is devastating the natural world. the fact that the birth rate has happily declined in recent years does not change that reality. it just suggests a glimmer of light in the far distant end of the tunnel. --- **Liam Gaume** @LiamGaume [2025-08-21](https://x.com/LiamGaume/status/1958385508687495441) this is one the reason I support lowering voting age