I love this channel, and starting my day with this video, it put me into this amazing open-hearted place where I long to unite with others to build something better whereas I am much more prone, normally, to angrily wish to tear the capitalist's world down.
I really wish changing our society was as simple as the old generation dies and then a new better one replaces them, but it just doesn't work that way, look at gen-x, they are no better. Still I'll be screaming Boomer Remover til the last one leaves us.
Boomer is definitely a state of mind which makes sense because what makes a boomer a boomer were their material conditions growing up. There are still people living the charmed boomer life story even today, it's just no longer the default.
It's not their conditions from growing up.
Almost all of them had depression era parents.What makes a boomer a boomer is the flirting with love and peace and than snorting a shit load of coke in the 80s making as much money as possible and than reeling those ladders up in the 90s.
:this: I work in health care in the states. I know how horribly elderly people, and especially poor elderly people, are treated. Advocating for them is all well and good, but the minute someone tries to rehabilitate "boomers" I'm going to laugh in their face, and possibly punch them in it.
Ageism is bad when the aged do not hold a near total monopoly on power and wealth. In this case, ageism is good, actually.
Boomer communists exist but are extremely rare. To be bourgeois in the USA usually means that you are also a boomer and vice-versa. Even if you don’t actually own any capital, the social safety net that exists for boomers + the lifetime you’ve spent having the entire country and planet bend over backwards for you means that you are almost certainly either a liberal or a fascist.
I mean, yes, boomers clearly need a lot of mental help, but that’s probably going to come after capitalism (which they almost universally adore) is destroyed.
Also, there were more cool boomers once upon a time, but most have died via social murder.
It's a joke but true, every commie meeting or socialist thing I've been to either has under 30s or over 70 year olds and nothing in between lol.
To me, that just means orgs need to work on providing better childcare for their members. 30-60 (maybe not so much 60, more like 30-50) is around the age when you have kids to take care of.
So are you gonna keep this tune when it comes to houseless elders, impoverished elders, minority elders, and queer elders? Probably not, I'd guess, which means you agree with me that age isn't the problem, having a monopoly on power and wealth is the problem. Don't advocate ageism unless old age in and of itself is something worth punishing to you.
I only advocate ageism in the sense that any criticism of boomers results in cries of “ageism.”
Exactly, it's like everyone who hates Israel is an "anti-Semite". I don't know why this is such a fucking struggle session today. When people say "fuck boomers" they're saying "fuck Zionists", not "death to the Jews".
Hearing boomers cry “ageism” is like when white people cry “reverse racism” when a POC calls them “cracker.” There is a power dynamic that must be considered
Being white is universally connected with having power. Being old is not universally connected with having power.
Being old is not universally connected with having power.
It currently correlates highly with being an extremely privileged (like nobody else in human history) piece of shit
the fact you have these fears and understand that Millenials and Gen Z are often apathetic libs like everyone else demonstrates perfectly that generational politics is bullshit.
in my experience, most other zoomers recognize that capitalism (whether they call it that or not) is fucked up to some extent or another but feel resisting it is futile and dangerous. more than political apathy, it's political learned helplessness born out of the death of mass politics and organization under neoliberalism.
They are ultimately comfortable. Even if exploited, even if destitute, there is routine their to lives. Until their routines are upset and unsustainable will anyone actually be in a position to slide into the cool zone.
They are ultimately comfortable. Even if exploited, even if destitute, there is routine their to lives.
This is the big problem. Bread and circuses work. People will endure unlimited suffering if they get their treats and going along seems safer than revolting.
the apathy of Millenials and Gen Z confuses and worries me. They (we) should be baying for blood.
The fact that we are not (that nobody anywhere is, really) has me thinking that we are never going to revolt. Maybe our understanding of how to psychologically manipulate people, combined with technology, is advanced enough that people really are just permanently fucked and powerless against the ruling class.
nothing to add but I really like the way you've expressed these things.
Good and thought-provoking. But they appear to be surrounded by absolutely blessed boomers in their life, while I really struggle to muster up much empathy for the cursed boomers around me. I know I'm basically saying "a black guy mugged me once so therefore racism is justified" but it's tough.
If you were non-stop mocked and robbed and often enough abused by black people ot would make sense if you had some problems with them. However, that's not a real problem for most white people, it's a kind of pointless discussion point. But boomers have mocked, robbed, and often abused younger people, so the anger is deserved.
Yeah I realized this a few minutes after writing was too lazy to try to write it down, thanks
Boomers are about to have to lay in the bed they made.
Any one that quotes Marx saying generational politics isn't a thing is ignoring our current reality. It is a thing. And it will be a thing to boomers do something to change that.
Do your hippie dippy stuff if you want, but I'm not watching that. Every pit a boomer and every boomer a pit.
so this sounds fun and all, but have you considered that whether or not this is hippie dippy, there's an argument to be made that "warmhearted leftism" is tactically expedient and possibly even our most plausible shot at fixing this hellworld?
Surely the people who've committed the lion's share of the world's resources to ensuring their continued comfort at the cost of untold black and brown lives just needed more hugs. You're either ridiculously privileged or hopelessly delusional or both.
Or perhaps the people who did that did so not because they were born between an arbitrary set of years but rather were in positions of power over capital and incentivized to do so by the horrifically broken system they lived in, all the while other people in that same generation suffered the consequences as well (like, you know, the black and brown people you just mentioned).
That would require some material analysis though. Much easier to just assume everyone between the ages of 50 and 75 just need the wall.
You crack me up, man. Hellworld exists because people made conscious decisions to make it this way. They aren't victims of circumstance. They knew what they were doing.
I'm not defending the people who did it, I'm saying that you should call them the self serving capitalist shit bags they are instead of labeling them by their generation. Newsflash: millennial capitalists aren't any better, greatest generation capitalists are just as evil, and if capitalism still exists in 50 years there'll be some gen alpha Bezos feeding workers into the Soylent machines.
Whining about generations is idealist nonsense.
lol u are very out of ideas
love my meme generational politics supported by shitty analogies
their other videos are great too lol
Actually fuck revolution, lets just spread COVID to nursing homes
