They sit here listening to CNBC and local news, which omits key details, uses nonsensical math, and ensures every story about COVID is bleak, dreary, and teeming with eery music.
The media is our enemy. The propaganda has to stop.
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I'm not a boomer and I remember that. You kids need to understand there was a generation after boomers and before millennials. It's called Generation X.
Every generation, the pendulum swings a little bit back the other direction in values.
Lost Generation is a quiet, conservative gen.
Greatest Generation took part in WW2, and we never heard the end of how great they supposedly were for it. Liberal generation.
Silent Generation is a quiet, conservative gen.
Boomers are attention seekers. They voted for politicians who would spend all of the Social Security revenue on Govt programs, so that by the time they were old, the younger generations would be paying for them. Even conservative Boomers have liberal "pay attention to me" personality traits. Think of Steve Jobs, and how he tried to take credit for other peoples' tech, such as the mouse, user interface, etc.
Gen X is a quieter, more conservative generation.
Then come Millenials. The reason why Boomers and Millenials hate each other is because they're both liberal generations. Liberals hate it when somebody gets more attention than they do, even when they're supposedly allies. Its kinda like how LBGTs hate Radical Feminists, and vice-versa.
Gen Z is again a more conservative generation than the Millenials.
I sit right between millennials and gen z and most of my friends in age group are either conservative or non political (which is almost extreme conservatism if you think about it).
I don’t think it’s generational, I think the internet fucked our shit up hard. Generations shouldn’t be based on numbers of offspring but on the technology surrounding people through childhood and adolescence
I agree with you regarding the damage from the internet.
I'm younger Gen X, and remember getting a cell phone my first year in college: still being the only one in my eight-floor dorm with one, in an era when previously, the only people who had cell phones as a normal part of life used them for business. Text messages weren't a thing yet, either. It was only my last year in college that you could get a decent 3MP digital camera with 3x analog zoom for $200-300. Before that, digital cameras were totally inferior to 35mm film except for the ability to take photos instantly without the hassle, time or cost of processing film.
Email then became commonplace, and people didn't handwrite and mail letters nearly as often, but it was not at all unusual for people to still write LONG emails in the pre-social media days. You could also go on a forum, and ask a question and get thoughtful answers, and there were no such things as upvotes or likes, people just said "hey thanks, man." The short attention span thing became the norm when Twitter became popular, and the overuse of puns and acting like a smartass without contributing anything really took over when Reddit killed smaller forums.