I mean, that assumes these are naive, innocent dupes, and the kind of conspiracy nonsense floating around now requires willing suspension of disbelief to get into. This post:
was written 12 years ago about the mendacity of evangelicals getting up in arms about imaginary satanists, but it’s equally applicable to Q. It’s basically just a supercharged version of it.
I remember reading Ted the Caver back in the 90s and getting scared shitless thinking it was a real blog. Before we had a word for blog.
EDIT: Early 2000s.
https://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/
One of my biggest fears is that this happens to me. If my later years are going to involve me being incredibly stupid, unaware, or insane, then I’d rather not have them at all.
Early in his great history book From Dawn to Decadence, Jacques Barzun describes the makeup of revolutionary mobs. Ideologues mixed with fools mixed with ordinary criminals mixed with the bored mixed with those looking for romantic partners. American or not, right wing or not, that is always what pops into my head when there’s a rebellion.
So yeah, some naive, innocent dupes. Some Machiavellian plotters. Some people just along for a ride.
Timex
6075
Why does everyone that losers pay to teach them how to pick up women look like just a total piece of shit?
The appropriate response to “OK, Boomer” is “I hope you like living in your mother’s basement.”
I saw a documentary on incels where the incels hired one of these guys to coach them. Turns out, the PUA guy was also a virgin and never had actually even kissed a girl.
I suspect it’s because they identify with the “consultant” and think if he could do it, so can they.
That’s not crazy. I mean if Brad Pitt was teaching pick up techniques, would you believe that it’s his techniques that are the key factor in making it work?
Age is hard to correlate with specific behaviors sometimes. My wife and I are boomers, though admittedly I scrape in at the tail end of the boom, and we’re technically competent, Internet savvy, able to navigate multiple info sources, etc. So is my mother, who is in her late 80s. So are some of my students, who are 18-22 generally. But there are people in all of these age brackets who are the exact opposite, like a friend we have who is our age but cannot for the life of her figure out things like icons, how to launch programs, or most of the UI/UX things we take for granted using phones, computers, or tablets. Very smart person, but utterly unable to do more than Facebook. And some of my college students themselves have never learned how to sort the wheat from the Internet chaff.
Teiman
6083
Boomer / Zoomer / GenX are a bit of a marketing distinctions to sell people shit, so is not a real shit, but I would be very offended by somebody calling me boomer, despite having all gray hair.
Boomers are the generation that have a firm grip of power, zero self-awaressnes, zero respect for the enviroment and they think they are genius and better than everyone else.
Wait a minute, … I am a boomer!
Edit:
I am not really a boomer, please don’t call the firing squad.
I’m at the tail end of the baby boomers. So I’m a boomer. I never thought of it as an insult. It’s just how old I am. My dad didn’t fight in WWII either. He fought in Korea. Does that make a difference?
Surprised no-one did this already.
Classic flavor, if you prefer:
Teiman
6086
For the first time in generations, the kids are poorer than their parents. Young people try to convince the old people in power how hard is to make the meet ends and that fails in deafs because the people in power experienced a world completelly different than the one where young people lives.
or so is the narrative, I don’t know if is true
what I have observed, and is a matter of deep concern for me, is many millenials having depression or mental problems in this pandemic, and I don’t know whats the cause
People expect more nowadays. My brother and I shared a bedroom growing up. We didn’t have a TV in our room either. We had two cars, but never more than that.
Now parents want each kid to have their own room and fill them with electronics. It’s not unusual to see families with 3-4 cars now.
It’s also common for both mom and dad to work full-time now. My generation still had mostly stay-at-home moms from my experience.
No offense intended, @Mark_Asher, but that’s more or less nonsense. Yes, the standard of living has gone up. But @Teiman’s point is that the younger generation has (relatively) less wealth and, most importantly, fewer opportunities for building wealth than the previous generation. That is a big deal, demographically, and whether or not they shared a bedroom or how much electronics they have doesn’t really matter, in terms of impact on society.
Alstein
6089
The depression and mental issues from the society they inherited were always there, you’re just seeing it more now.
The difference between Gen X and Millenials to me is that Gen Xers (how I grew up) - we got to live the fantasy for a bit, then we got jaded, we didn’t get it as bad.
The Millenials have taken it on the chin their entire lives- they act and feel a lot like the Depression generation. We’re lucky the kids have a strong moral compass for the most part.
I mean, this does not describe the existence of most people.
