{{Ideology
|image = 73255653.png
|caption = "Kids these days..."
"Stop calling me a boomer!"
|title = Gerontocracy
|aliases= Rule of the Elderly
Grandpa Dictatorship
Brezhnev Doctrine
Bidenism
Boomercracy
Paul Biya Thought
|alignments= Non-Quadrant
|likes=Boiled Sweets
Cross-word puzzles
Sleeping
Social Security
|dislikes = Being called a boomer
Millennials
Generation Z
His wife
- Lembitu (?-1217) Ancient Estonia
- Most Popes
- Franz Joseph I (1830-1916) Austria-Hungary
- Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934) Germany
- Tomáš Masaryk (1850-1937) Czechoslovakia
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965) UK
- Éamon de Valera (1882-1975) Ireland
- António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) Portugal
- Francisco Franco (1892-1975) Spain
- Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980) Yugoslavia
- Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982) Soviet Union
- Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918-1989) Romania
- Elizabeth II (1926-2022) UK
- Silvio Berlusconi (1936-) Italy
- Klaus Schwab (1938-) Germany
- Michael D. Higgins (1941-) Ireland
- Miloš Zeman (1944-) Czechia
- Josep Borrell (1947-) Spain
- Vladmir Putin (1952-) Russia
- Americas {{Collapse|
- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) US
- Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006) Chile
- Henry Kissinger (1923-) Germany/ USA
- Fidel Castro (1926-2016) Cuba
- Raúl Castro (1931-) Cuba
- León Febres-Cordero (1931-2013) Ecuador
- Chuck Grassley (1933-) USA
- Nancy Pelosi (1940-) USA
- Bernie Sanders (1941-) USA
- Mitch McConnell (1942-) USA
- Joe Biden (1942-) USA
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (1945-) Brazil
- Daniel Ortega (1945-) Nicaragua
- Donald J. Trump (1946-) USA
- [[Left-Wing Populism|Andrés Manuel López Obrador] (1953-) México
}}
- Africa
- Robert Mugabe (1924-2019) Zimbabwe
- Paul Biya (1933-) Cameroon
- Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (1942-) Equatorial Guinea
- Denis Sassou Nguesso (1943-) Republic of the Congo
- Abdelmadjid Tebboune (1945-) Algeria
- Isaias Afwerki (1946-) Eritrea
- Asia
- Rhee Syngman (1875-1965) Korea
- İsmet İnönü (1884–1973) Turkey
- Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) ROC
- Hồ Chí Minh (1890-1969) Vietnam
- Mao Zedong (1893-1976) China
- Zhou Enlai (1898-1976) China
- Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997) China
- Lê Duẩn (1907-1986) Vietnam
- Ne Win (1910/11-2002), Myanmar
- Kim Il-Sung (1912-1994) North Korea
- Song Ping (1917-) China
- Lee Kuan-Yew (1923-2015) Singapore
- Kim Dae-jung (1924-2009) South Korea
- Mahathir Mohamad (1925-) Malaysia
- Jiang Zemin (1926-2022) China
- Michel Aoun (1933-) Lebanon
- Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1935-) Saudi Arabia
- Islam Karimov (1938-2016) Uzbekistan
- Ali Khamenei (1939-) Iran
- Lee Myung-bak (1941-) South Korea
- Nguyễn Phú Trọng (1944-) Vietnam
- Hun Sen (1952-) Cambodia
- Lee Hsien Loong (1952-) Singapore
- Moon Jae-in (1953-) South Korea
|textcolor=7F7F7F |themecolor=C3C3C3 |influences= Oligarchy |variants=
- Paul Biya thought
- Anti-British sentiment
- Francophillia
- Authoritarian Conservatism
- Particracy
- Right-Wing Populism
|influenced= Bidenism
Necrocracy
León Febres Cordero Conservatism
Mahathirism
|examples=
- American government (since 2021)
- Commonwealth Realms
- Cameroon
- Singapore
- Saudi Arabia
- USSR under Leonid Brezhnev (1964-1982)
- Vatican City
- Ancient Estonia
|song=2 Hours of boomer music
It's just a burning memory
Childishly Fresh Eyes
Heartaches (normal version)
Eastenders Theme
You're Old
Your Favorite Martian - Grandma Got a Facebook
Old Style
Mayores
Eff Granddad
Noches de Hungría
Anything by The Caretaker
}}
"It's just a burning memory..." -Al Bowlly
Gerontocracy is a form of oligarchical rule in which an entity is ruled by leaders who are significantly older than most of the adult population. The ancient Greeks were among the first to believe in this idea of gerontocracies; as famously stated by Plato "it is for the elder man to rule and for the younger to submit". However, these beliefs are not unique to ancient Greece, as many cultures still subscribe to this way of thinking. This belief has been very common in tribal communities as the lack of writing meant that people relied on older people to seek knowledge much more frequently.
Often these political structures are such that political power within the ruling class accumulates with age, making the oldest people hold more power than others. Those holding the most power may not be in formal leadership positions, but often dominate those who are. In a simplified definition, a gerontocracy is a society where leadership is reserved for elders.
How to Draw
- Draw a ball
- Color it gray
- Give it a cane
- Add eyes
- Give it hair with a darker shade of gray
- Done
Color Name | HEX | RGB | |
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Gray | #C3C3C3 | 195, 195, 195 | |
Darker Gray | #7F7F7F | 127, 127, 127 |
Relations
Friends
- Boiled sweets - As an old person I cannot resist boiled sweets.
- Classical Conservatism - Things aren't like they used to be.
- Apoliticism - Fellow wife hater.
- Traditionalism - Now back in our day...
- Paleoconservatism - Hah! You get me!
- Bidenism - Ridin' with Biden!
- Eisenhowerism - I still like Ike!
- Brezhnev Doctrine and Post-Soviet Left - Откопаем Брежнева, будем пить по прежнему...
- Tribalism - Respects me.
- Paternalistic Conservatism - Back in my day, a man cared about his fellow man.
- Right-Wing Populism - He promised the return of the good ol' days.
Frenemies
- Anarcho-Primitivism - Also likes the good old days but goes a little too far. Also, I wouldn't have been able to live longer than 50 without modern healthcare.
- Alt-Lite - I'm all for kids embracing traditions, but not this crap.
- Necrocracy - Like me but even older, and you make me feel uncomfortable.
Enemies
- Progressivism - Darn hippies...
(Bernie and Pelosi are really great though) - National Socialism - We fought to liberate Europe from your newfangled evil idea.
- Alt-Right - The only "redpill" I need to take is some Tylenol after listening to these kids' internet jibber jabber.
- Transhumanism - Darn kids and their stupid gadgets!
- Fiscal Conservatism - Stay away from my pensions!
- State Liberalism- WTF? I'm not getting euthanized! Get outta here before I give you a good cane beating!
Further Information
Wikipedia
Videos
- The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stages 1-6 (Complete)
- The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
- The Caretaker - Everywhere, an empty bliss (FULL ALBUM)
- The Caretaker - Persistent repetition of phrases
Gallery
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Credit: u/KhanOceanMan, Source