This is the range of ages of senior politicians, managers, entrepreneurs and journalists across this region. Yet, this is far from a foregone conclusion. The inexperienced temerity of the young has landed them in some hot spots. Age and experience reassert themselves and with them the disingenuous habits of the past. The young are in retreat and as revolutionaries age, they turn territorial and hidebound.
Turf wars are likely to intensify rather then recede.
In the elysium of communism, managers were trained mostly to wheedle, lobby and to cadge. This claque of suppliant supplicants suddenly had to trade their irenic and craven nature for the untoward and alert aggression that is capitalism. The many failed and in their stead a novel breed of predators emerged, fully armed with expertise, fully attuned to markets and to profits, fully enslaved to competition. In a rearguard skirmish, the old guard expropriated the decrepit assets of the dying system. Every appointment in the public sector, down to the most insignificant sinecure, is still politicized.