The popularity of Minions among the boomers strikes me as tapping into the little class consciousness they have while they also are completely and totally obedient to the ruling class.
It's also somewhat indicative of a sort of internalised classism because the Minions are incompetent at pretty much everything. The petty-bourgeoise boomers like the Minions because they see their workers in that way while the prole boomers like it because they have been fundamentally broken-in by capital and have internalised hate for their class.
It's a really interesting situation, the minions are self-inserts for hyper obedient completely broken-in proles. A mindset that I suspect is only possible among extremely positive people who have generally had a reasonably ok time as a prole, the reason the appeal is so high among boomers but less so among the young is because that hyper positivity is just not there among millenials and younger. Only Gen X and above (and children) really latched onto Minions in this way and that comes from the different material conditions that created them.
I suspect it's impossible for us to win the Gen X and above crowd of people to socialism. They were created by specific material conditions and those material conditions are a core of who they are, re-molding that is probably possible but requires resources and time that we do not have.
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The popularity of Minions among the boomers strikes me as tapping into the little class consciousness they have while they also are completely and totally obedient to the ruling class.
It's also somewhat indicative of a sort of internalised classism because the Minions are incompetent at pretty much everything. The petty-bourgeoise boomers like the Minions because they see their workers in that way while the prole boomers like it because they have been fundamentally broken-in by capital and have internalised hate for their class.
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It's a really interesting situation, the minions are self-inserts for hyper obedient completely broken-in proles. A mindset that I suspect is only possible among extremely positive people who have generally had a reasonably ok time as a prole, the reason the appeal is so high among boomers but less so among the young is because that hyper positivity is just not there among millenials and younger. Only Gen X and above (and children) really latched onto Minions in this way and that comes from the different material conditions that created them.
I suspect it's impossible for us to win the Gen X and above crowd of people to socialism. They were created by specific material conditions and those material conditions are a core of who they are, re-molding that is probably possible but requires resources and time that we do not have.
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