I see it as embracing identity politics and encouraging a political identity for non-Boomer generations. Embracing the idpol of Black Lives Matter doesn’t mean acknowledging the legitimacy of a white nationalist political identity.
It’s perhaps more accurate to say Boomers are privileged than that they are evil, but from the vantage of the unprivileged, those can look the same.
What if the Robber’s Cave experiment was a whimsical childhood novel? That’s basically Harry Potter.
uh genx does not love Harry Potter that’s definitely a millennial thing.
I know, cutting edge forum contributing here.
It’s like you said before diversity is the new paradigm. Millennials are particularly blessed in the sense that they understand this on a fundamental level. Imitating the good parts of boomers is the play.
Think about the curve of technology that we are surfing on. I think boomers are the first group to digest massive amounts of info but are aging past being able to handle it all.
I dont think this has anything to do with aging, I think they were raised in a world where all the information they received was finely filtered and edited and they were handsomely rewarded for accepting information from the media at face value and their whole generation just agreed that what was on the 6 o’clock news and in the newspaper was the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. They don’t have the skills to deal with the internet.
Are you arguing that mental acuity doesn’t decrease with age?
Mental acuity 100% decreases with age, but I am asserting that the boomers never had the ability to deal with information as it is presented on the internet. Critically evaluating a ton of information to discern truth vs. fiction is a skill that needs to be developed, but they were raised to believe things unquestioningly. They were really set up to fall hook, line, and sinker for the Soviet style propaganda that they are being exposed to constantly.
I know you’ve got me on ignore but…
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Only many of the best musicians of the late 60s and 70s.
Thanks, once again, for reiterating your false equivalence.
This isn’t true for a lot of reasons, my favorite being that in “the 60s,” the oldest boomer would have voted in at most 3 national-scale elections, and the vast majority of them wouldn’t even have voted yet or were yet to be born. Furthermore, even if you limit it to strictly an economic or class based understanding of the left/right continuum, it’s not especially true, and younger generations are way, way to the left of boomers on racial equality, lgbtq rights, women’s rights, and other social issues outside of the corporate/labor struggle.
And there are a ton of millenials and gen Zers getting radicalized by the online alt right. No one is pretending that gen X or millenials are flawless generations. This hijack got started because you equated people in this forum with the worst of boomer selfishness.
The hijack started because people like you attempted to take the moral high ground by slating the previous generation lock, stock and barrel, implying that in their shoes you’d have been far better people.
Which is bollocks of course. The only significant behavioural differences between boomers and Gen X are explained by the former having many more opportunities to be as shit as the latter would like to be if they had half a chance.
Ego and vanity are the stuff of delusions.
This conversation exists completely outside all that.
Yeah let’s not give jal and his shallow both sides bullshit credit for this conversation. Also imagine being British and thinking that you’re allowed to throw rocks at people lol. The crimes this country was built on were SOP for the Brits for 300+ years in an area so vast that the sun never set on places directly controlled by them.
I don’t think that was their point.
My reading is that not giving in to extremist ideology is very hard. His point on music is very strong also.
It also highlights a bizarre and complicated truth about America. We are, in a sense, a casualty of our own freedom. How many societies/civilizations have done what we are doing?
I’m honestly asking since everyone here has superior historical knowledge. I do want to expound upon Jal’s point about music but want to hear everyone’s thoughts.
It’s almost as if arguments predicated on broad stereotypes are doomed to be fruitless.
For those in the “it’s not cool for millennials et al to be pissing on boomers” crowd, would you also say it’s inappropriate for people in Latin American countries to say “Fuck Americans, those assholes voted for Trump”?
Seems like they should be grumpier about Reagan.
That’s already happening all over the world and guess what? They’re fucking right. The rest of the world needs to realize ASAP what a profoundly unreliable partner we are and make new arrangements. We’ve been lousy to do business with since Reagan at least.
I seem to remember some pretty disappointing numbers on Hispanics in regards to their thoughts on Trump.
I applaud your attempts to have a serious debate with people whose arguments are always fuelled by ad hominem.