This shit really shatters my fantasy of post gen x people fostering a genuinely more empathetic and moral culture. sicko-wistful

  • carpoftruth [any, any]
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    6 days ago

    What's the matter with kids today is a sentiment that has been posted about and whined about for as far back as humanity has written records. It's not different just because we do it on phones

    • 2812481591 [any, it/its]
      hexagon
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      6 days ago

      Yeah, but the boomers were worse than the generations before and after them, and the contention between the cinquedea generation and the Maximilian generation for wearing ruffs with to many folds doesn't compare.

      • carpoftruth [any, any]
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        6 days ago

        the boomers were worse than the generations before and after them

        This is part of the pattern that has been going on for all of recorded human history also

        • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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          6 days ago

          No Boomers are actually worse, like they were even worse when they WERE the new generation. Reagan won the youth vote, in terms of economics Boomers are actually more conservative than their parents. Generational politics is mostly bullshit, but for a variety of socio-economic reasons Boomers turned out to be shit at a somewhat higher rate than most other generations.

          • red_stapler [he/him]
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            6 days ago

            Boomers turned out to be shit at a somewhat higher rate than most other generations.

            It was all the atmospheric lead.

            • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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              6 days ago

              Nah I think it was the silver spoon of the late-80s, early-90s economy being shoved up their ass.

              The few based Boomers that exist are mostly early Boomers, the Boomers we got today are late Boomers who came up when it looked like the American dream was paying off.

              • egg1918 [she/her]
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                6 days ago

                Yeah Amerikkan boomers were born into probably the most uneven distribution of wealth in history. All of industrialized Europe was in rubble after the war and the US absorbed practically all of the old world empires.

                To act like boomers aren't materially different from generations before and after is to deny reality.

    • ihaveibs [he/him]
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      5 days ago

      I mean, is this true? "western" liberal society is pretty cynical and brutal towards children, but I don't think its fair to say this is a common feature across all humanity.