"Stupid under-40s with their respect for human rights. Time to demonize them!"
“As millennials mature…”
Bro I’m almost 40 lol
One of the most annoying thing about boomers is how they steadfastly refuse to treat younger people as grown adults
Millennials in America own a fraction of the wealth of baby boomers (13T vs 78T, or 8% vs 50%). Boomers and Gen X together own 80% of the nation’s wealth against millennial’s 8%. This leaves the millennials with practically very little political and economic influence in the country.
So, it is not wrong to think that even 40-year old millennials can be seen as a child with little means of rebelling against their parents who command all the wealth and power.
I used to think there would be an intergenerational wealth transfer to alleviate this, but in reality boomer wealth is just getting hoovered up by the financial services industry with shit like reverse mortgages, and of course, end of life care. The boomers leave this earth penniless
Also very little cultural influence. As well as the general removal of the working class from access to or opportunity to create art, it explains the way culture has basically just been recycled for the last 25 years.
I should be just about the target age (if on the young end of it) for "Ready Player One" and the book(s) and the movie utterly and completely disgusted me, and in fact gave me a weird bleak sense of dread when they first became known.
I should be just about the target age (if on the young end of it) for "Ready Player One" and the book(s) and the movie utterly and completely disgusted me, and in fact gave me a weird bleak sense of dread when they first became known.
Same. The Iron Giant thing was especially offensive to me. The whole point of the original Iron Giant movie was that the giant didn't want to be a weapon. But in Ready Player One he's treated as just a weapon the protagonists can exploit. Disgusting.
The nostalgia of Ready Player One never hit me because I haven't stopped hearing about 80s movies since the day I was born. Was the idea to scramble a bunch of stuff that most people haven't thought about in decades? How do they avoid that? I turn on any TV in the last 20 years and it's a barrage of the same 80s and 90s movies, or references to them. There's a whole scene in Ready Player One where they mess around in The Shining hotel, and that's one of my favorite movies, but it felt so empty. I've already seen endless riffs and gags on The Shining. Like Freakazoid or the Animaniacs already made the references, we don't need to make more in 2018.
the worst part about all this rehashing? All of this feels so late. I would have exploded in excitement at 9 years old if you told me there was gonna be a movie about a guy with a virtual reality DeLorean who fights a mecha godzilla. I would have shit myself if I had known there would be 5 Marvel movies every year. And yet here we are and it's the worst possible version of what I thought I wanted as a kid.
That's quite an insight you have there: how can some of us miss something if it never really went away?
There was a time period from the late 90s to the early 2000s where a lot of my internet browsing was looking for nostalgia references and jokes and fan edits of 80s media, and I even got into a weird habit of watching cartoon intro compilations (some of them were really awesome, like for Wheeled Warriors, Thundercats, and Silverhawks, and of course Ulysses31).
That said, even then, I had a deeper and more intersectional grasp of the material than the steaming pile of blue curtained bazinga trash that Ernest Cline pushed out. RPO was recommended to my by several people, including family members, because they thought I'd instantly love it. I hated it before I even know how big it'd blow up . Anything related to that garbage fire became a sort of litmus test for whether I'd get along with a fellow fan of something.
"The Iron Giant was pretty cool, huh?"
"YEAH AND IT WAS SO EPIC IN THE READYPLAYERONERINOS WHEN THE IRON GIANT WAS USED AS A WEAPON ALONGSIDE A CATEGORICAL LIST OF OTHER TREATS POURED INTO SPIELBURG'S SLOP TROUGH AMIRITE"
Ugh, a nation's culture is going to inevitably be fucked up when the rich gatekeep it and make even pursuing art a luxury. That's not even mentioning the weird hatred US society has for artists in general.
All millennials just started college and beginning their major in gay basket dancing
there's something wrong in this country where a war in the Middle East has spread in Canada and is making Jewish Canadians feel this unsafe
maybe dont use every possible opportunity to conflate zionism with judaism then?
"What do you mean 'stop calling you Rhodesian,' you're white!"
Oooh I’m gonna start using “criticizing Rhodesia is just anti-white hatred”
Fogel said he doesn't believe the trends in public opinion are irreversible.
"Without a doubt, it's of deep concern," he said. "But here's the thing. As the millennials and Gen Zers and so forth mature, they will be confronted increasingly with some of the anomalies of what they had thought was the case. So, for example, the young LGBTQ community, seeing itself as part of the struggle for greater equality and empowerment and freedom, have gravitated towards this particular camp.
"But as they have to confront the inconsistencies — how, for example, somebody from the LGBTQ community living in Gaza doesn't really have much of a future, contrasting that to pride festivals in Tel Aviv on an annual basis. Different groups that have identified with these progressive voices will be challenged to rationalize them.
"I can only be hopeful that as their experience deepens, they are going to appreciate in a much more sophisticated way the problems inherent in that simplistic view of the world as being divided in a binary way between the oppressed and the oppressor, the victims and the victimizers."
"Wait, you're telling me there's no Pride parades in Gaza? I guess they should all die then"
I also read an IDF report recently detailing how Gaza has never held any Columbus Day celebrations. The world needs to know! This is unacceptable anti-It*lian discrimination. I'm not Italian myself, thankfully, but as a lover of pizza I can only be a good ally by demanding brutal and uncompromising genocide.
I hear they don't celebrate the 4th of July either!
Every fucking time with the LGBT rights concern-trolling horseshit, yet Israel still hasn't legalized same-sex marriage. Honestly the propagandists need to do better.
Mature from 35 to 40... these people really don't live in reality at all.
- ShowThey should listen to their elders who give standing ovations to literal Nazis.
Suck my fucking sick CBC state media for a bourgeois state this shit is why people under 30 also don't give a shit about you
it's got to be something related to watching cable TV as well. I'm convinced of that. I know this isn't a material analysis or whatever, but anecdotally every boomer family member I have who sits in front of cable news has become rabid. Their particular cultural grievances have started consuming their every waking hour and it's only gotten worse. My boomer family who aren't into TV are pretty normal, they're spending their autumn years learning to whittle sculptures or building koi ponds in their backyards or whatever.
And it extends to both my liberal and chud family, they're both lockstep with whatever their chosen TV man tells them.
Polls on this show huge gaps between age demographics in the US. Income, race, party, etc. have some correlation too, but age is the biggest factor by far. (I'm sure there's a lot of reasons for that, but for one, the older you are you tend to get all your info from mainstream media and cable TV)
From that Harvard-Harris poll that was posted here, 70% of Gen Z does not think America should support Israel, while nearly 80% of boomers do (while millennials are like 50/50):
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/israel-hamas-gaza-canadians-polling-1.7022927
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People involved in Israeli advocacy admit to being shocked at the size of pro-Palestinian protests across the West, and their ability to mobilize far greater numbers of people than have come out in support of Israel.
The tone at some of the protests has been "vitriolic," Fogel told CBC News.
"I'm stunned by the level of support being expressed for Hamas," he added.
