I honestly think older people are simpler. Maybe it's older people in general, or maybe just boomers, idk.
Regardless of the politics/desire of the old person in question, the magnitude and intricacy of their politics always seem far less developed. The racist boomers seem less overtly and consciously racist than the ones from Generation Z(yklon) and the conspiracy minded ones seem to only go as far as George Carlin type bits.
Wignat-ism is a uniquely Millennial and below phenomenon, maybe bleeding into Xers. Same with the most analytical and convoluted schizo-brain conspiracists (who are admittedly sometimes right or have valid points)
Gardening/lawn care also displays this divide. Boomers just mindlessly mow their lawn because "that's what you do" and in my exprnce don't actually pay any attention to the weather conditions or specific things they need to do to get a very nice lush lawn.
As an example, Boomers will mow their lawn in the middle of a drought. Ignore the environmental stuff, just think about only the lawn itself. This damages the lawn by worsening water loss.
The boomers will not mow their lawn any less frequently to compensate for the drought.
They will also not water extra in order to compensate for the drought.
They will also not alter their behavior and leave the lawn clippings in place to reflect a bit more sunlight and prevent some water from escaping the grass. They will bag them up and dumpster them as always.
Ignoring all environmental concerns, even from the position of "I want the best for my lawn", Boomers are a failure.
They just know to mow, and maybe to pay a guy to do their thinking for them. They're not even addicted to having nice lawns, they're just addicted to doing activity (much like consume product) because activity must be done. Just do activity and wait for next date of mandated activity
As an example, Boomers will mow their lawn in the middle of a drought. Ignore the environmental stuff, just think about only the lawn itself. This damages the lawn by worsening water loss.
The boomers will not mow their lawn any less frequently to compensate for the drought.
They will also not water extra in order to compensate for the drought.
They will also not alter their behavior and leave the lawn clippings in place to reflect a bit more sunlight and prevent some water from escaping the grass. They will bag them up and dumpster them as always.
Ignoring all environmental concerns, even from the position of “I want the best for my lawn”, Boomers are a failure.
my dad isn't even from the west and I was simply describing him (although I see the same things in boomers everywhere)
for example you can easily get an amazing lawn by fertilizing occasionally with diluted piss, as long as you live in an overall rainy area where the salts will get washed out (which is true for me and I also eat a lowish salt diet which is really just a normal salt diet because normalcy has been pathologized and addiction normalized).
Doing so also saves flush water (the dilution water is just going back into the aquifer as opposed to being mixed with sewage).
Boomers don't do this and would probably riot at the thought of someone doing this
I honestly think older people are simpler. Maybe it's older people in general, or maybe just boomers, idk.
Regardless of the politics/desire of the old person in question, the magnitude and intricacy of their politics always seem far less developed. The racist boomers seem less overtly and consciously racist than the ones from Generation Z(yklon) and the conspiracy minded ones seem to only go as far as George Carlin type bits.
Wignat-ism is a uniquely Millennial and below phenomenon, maybe bleeding into Xers. Same with the most analytical and convoluted schizo-brain conspiracists (who are admittedly sometimes right or have valid points)
Gardening/lawn care also displays this divide. Boomers just mindlessly mow their lawn because "that's what you do" and in my exprnce don't actually pay any attention to the weather conditions or specific things they need to do to get a very nice lush lawn.
As an example, Boomers will mow their lawn in the middle of a drought. Ignore the environmental stuff, just think about only the lawn itself. This damages the lawn by worsening water loss.
The boomers will not mow their lawn any less frequently to compensate for the drought.
They will also not water extra in order to compensate for the drought.
They will also not alter their behavior and leave the lawn clippings in place to reflect a bit more sunlight and prevent some water from escaping the grass. They will bag them up and dumpster them as always.
Ignoring all environmental concerns, even from the position of "I want the best for my lawn", Boomers are a failure.
They just know to mow, and maybe to pay a guy to do their thinking for them. They're not even addicted to having nice lawns, they're just addicted to doing activity (much like consume product) because activity must be done. Just do activity and wait for next date of mandated activity
You may have met my neighbors. :doomer:
my dad isn't even from the west and I was simply describing him (although I see the same things in boomers everywhere)
for example you can easily get an amazing lawn by fertilizing occasionally with diluted piss, as long as you live in an overall rainy area where the salts will get washed out (which is true for me and I also eat a lowish salt diet which is really just a normal salt diet because normalcy has been pathologized and addiction normalized).
Doing so also saves flush water (the dilution water is just going back into the aquifer as opposed to being mixed with sewage).
Boomers don't do this and would probably riot at the thought of someone doing this