This shit really shatters my fantasy of post gen x people fostering a genuinely more empathetic and moral culture.
Generations are an op to divide the working class and sell AI generated T shirts ripped from data mined Facebook profiles that say shit like “Do NOT f*ck with forklift operators born in Idaho in August 1987 who own German Shepherds and drive a cardinal red 2005 Dodge Neon”
That said that post was weapons grade cringe and should 100% be mocked, I hope it was at least some kind of Democratic Party operative and not someone doing it pro bono but who knows.
“Do NOT f*ck with forklift operators born in Idaho in August 1987 who own German Shepherds and drive a cardinal red 2005 Dodge Neon”
Ok, but if we ever get official Hexbear t-shirts, I want one that says this
I think generational divides are real, but the way people delineate them completely suck. The lines should be drawn based on huge historic moments like world wars or economic depressions, not just an arbitrary date or timeframe. It also has to consider offset between a person’s birth and the cultural moment. Obviously, someone born a day before 9/11 shouldn’t be categorized with people who grew up in a pre-9/11 world.
Just consider the US. There’s essentially 4 youngish generations:
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People born too late to remember a Cold War world but born early enough to remember a pre-9/11 world. (Age: 27-37)
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People born too late to remember a pre-9/11 world but born early enough to remember a pre-Great Recession world. (Age: 20-27)
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People born too late to remember a pre-Great Recession world but born early enough to remember a pre-Covid world. (Age: 8-20)
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People born too late to remember a pre-Covid world. (Age: 0-8)
1 is millennials and 4 is gen alpha. But what of 2 and 3? Most people would lump them together as zoomers or lump 3 and 4 as gen alpha while keeping 2 as zoomers.
If you want to have dreams and fantasies about a better world, I’m not sure why you would expect to find it on Reddit.
I think the pipeline of school->work alienation makes people stuck in their ways.
Also reddit is kind of a selection bias because no one cool uses reddit
Im a millenial who grew up w rush limbaugh propaganda and i became based as fuck, its all more complicated than that
Not trying to be a pick me ass millennial but holy shit the millennial generation has been a fucking appalling disappointment. So many terrified articles written by boomers when we were coming up in our early 20s about how much things were gonna get shaken up. Then seeing 95% of my cohort become clueless tepid shitlibs at absolute best who are constitutionally incapable of imagining even a slightly better world.
Anyway the idea that politics would naturally drift left with generational change was brutally murdered by first millennial presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and his unbelievably crackertacular high high hopes dances.
The only piece of advice I would give younger people is don’t listen to your elders, especially about politics. They are housebroken pieces of shit.
TBF Buttigieg was never popular with Millennials, he’s a vision of what the old farts in charge of the DNC wish Millennials were.
That being said, I do think you’re right that our generation suffers from endemic tepidness and hedge betting. Like historically the trope was generations get wealthier as they get older and thus more defensive of the status quo, but we’re buried under too much debt and CoL for that.
I think it stems from being the first standardized testing generation. It got so beaten into us that there’s four options here, fill in the right bubble or kiss your future goodbye. So there’s a combination of fear but also an inability to cope with a world that’s not a multiple choice test so it’s a lot of waffling because god help us if we get the answer wrong.
Though I am too disappointed by my cohort, millenials still have a relative overall left-slant, so a drift to the left absolutely isn’t ruled out yet.
That’s what I think too. As millennials age theres still not that much to look forward to in terms of material help. For example millennials actually have a good chance of owning a house once their parents die, but how many of them are just going to sell their house so they can pay off their loans? They’re still going to be worse off and that’s going to have an effect on their future politics.
is a millennial? Something about him always made me think he was Gen X or something. Probably on the cusp if I’d guess.
The only piece of advice I would give younger people is don’t listen to your elders, especially about politics. They are housebroken pieces of shit.
Gotta disagree with this. The younger people should take some advice from those elders that are able to perceive the mistakes they made in their own time. Unfortunately, there seem to be few of those people among the millennial left.
Well yeah did you think redditors would be the vanguard?
Boomers are a real thing because in a general sense they did well out of capitalism, at least in the sense of being upwardly mobile. They have a vested interest in protecting the status quo. And so they’ve fallen prey to all kinds of media propaganda because it ultimately serves their interests. And - again in a general sense - they have enormously greater wealth than other generations, which is just an objective/statistically provable fact. So analysis based around Boomers is not automatically bullshit.
There is no real difference in my experience (real world at least) between Millenials and gen z apart from small incidental cultural differences, which mostly just relate to gen z having become too online at an earlier age than Millenials did.
In so far as a lot of Millenials remain disappointingly radlib/ non-Marxist socialists, well it’s probably just an effect of being so close to the most materially successful generation that capitalism ever produced. They imagined their lives would be even better, and many of them are still wedded to the idea that we can turn back the clock to the old 60s style social democracy and save capitalism from itself.
