This shit really shatters my fantasy of post gen x people fostering a genuinely more empathetic and moral culture.
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.
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
It’s the U.S. any morality or empathy that you can develop in your teens and college is quickly and decisively stripped away from you by the universalized and all-pervasive corporate culture. People mistake it as a generational thing, and while some aspects are, contempt for the kids is consistent.
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.
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.
“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
What’s the matter with kids today is a sentiment that has been posted about and whined about for as far back as humanity has written records. It’s not different just because we do it on phones
Yeah, but the boomers were worse than the generations before and after them, and the contention between the cinquedea generation and the Maximilian generation for wearing ruffs with to many folds doesn’t compare.
the boomers were worse than the generations before and after them
This is part of the pattern that has been going on for all of recorded human history also
No Boomers are actually worse, like they were even worse when they WERE the new generation. Reagan won the youth vote, in terms of economics Boomers are actually more conservative than their parents. Generational politics is mostly bullshit, but for a variety of socio-economic reasons Boomers turned out to be shit at a somewhat higher rate than most other generations.
