Orinta ZVIKAITĖ-RÖTTING Generation Gap: Resolving Conflicts Between Generations

Seeing that agents of various health and life insurances knock at our doors, or automatically saved voices speak on our answering machines choosing us for the “special private pension offer,” we hardly disagree – we need to think about our retirement funds. A state-related labour agency thinks along the same lines, sending each young, perhaps first-time, employee a proposal of its pension if she or he keeps on working in the way she or he currently works (at least that happens in “good old Germany”). Longevity is a part of the story which happens to humankind. Francis FUKUYAMA, in addition to the problems of social security, the tripling of the elderly population and the increase of public expenditures, predicts the emergence of two strange power parties in the world of multiple generations. One is the power of old women, and the other is the young “super-angry” men, who are progressively taking over the voters’ community and destabilizing natural political experience–power hierarchies. He writes: “The natural tendency of one generation to get out of the way of the up-and-coming one will be replaced by the simulta-