Fear, weakness, and the desire to feel important. Having "insider knowledge" makes them feel powerful. They see compitent and sometimes joyful young people and feel the pit in their stomach as the hand of death reaches ever closer. Calling you dumb for not knowing what a floppy disk is dulls the pain of knowing you have lived your happiest days and all you have left is to clutch ever tighter to fading lead addled memories in hopes of feeling the joys they see in the eyes of others.
I think it might be more than just having things relatively easy. Most of the boomer generation were poor and miserable. Maybe less miserable than modern people, but they had shitty medicine that didn't work, alcoholism like you wouldn't believe, shitty sex, universal smoking, the lead, and a bunch of other stuff.
And I've noticed a lot of the ones who actually made it in to the 1-3% of the population that could be legitimately called middle class spent their whole lives chasing a "good career" and money and shit, and now they're old and all they have is money. No purpose, no meaningful accomplishments. They never even tried to change anything and a lot of them never even considered changing things. They just did what they were told and now they're at the end of their lives, looking back on decades of work that often made the world actively worse, their kids hate them, the world has changed incomprehensibly. Sure, they've got food and medicine, but those higher tiers of Maslow's pyramid are completely empty.
That's why I focus on esoteric mystery religions now so the secrets of the Apollo cult will shield me from believing that water causes magnetism when I'm 80.
There's a cool documentary somewhere about the last floppy disk dealer in the world. He collects, repairs, and sells disks to companies that still need them to work with ancient systems that host critical infrastructure. There are barely any left in absolute terms and working ones are very precious.
Fear, weakness, and the desire to feel important. Having "insider knowledge" makes them feel powerful. They see compitent and sometimes joyful young people and feel the pit in their stomach as the hand of death reaches ever closer. Calling you dumb for not knowing what a floppy disk is dulls the pain of knowing you have lived your happiest days and all you have left is to clutch ever tighter to fading lead addled memories in hopes of feeling the joys they see in the eyes of others.
Break the cycle. Living is hard.
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I think it might be more than just having things relatively easy. Most of the boomer generation were poor and miserable. Maybe less miserable than modern people, but they had shitty medicine that didn't work, alcoholism like you wouldn't believe, shitty sex, universal smoking, the lead, and a bunch of other stuff.
And I've noticed a lot of the ones who actually made it in to the 1-3% of the population that could be legitimately called middle class spent their whole lives chasing a "good career" and money and shit, and now they're old and all they have is money. No purpose, no meaningful accomplishments. They never even tried to change anything and a lot of them never even considered changing things. They just did what they were told and now they're at the end of their lives, looking back on decades of work that often made the world actively worse, their kids hate them, the world has changed incomprehensibly. Sure, they've got food and medicine, but those higher tiers of Maslow's pyramid are completely empty.
That desire for knowing secret truths is probably why so many boomers got Q pilled. Their main character syndrome really bit them in the ass.
That's why I focus on esoteric mystery religions now so the secrets of the Apollo cult will shield me from believing that water causes magnetism when I'm 80.
Playing the long game I see. Smart move.
There's a cool documentary somewhere about the last floppy disk dealer in the world. He collects, repairs, and sells disks to companies that still need them to work with ancient systems that host critical infrastructure. There are barely any left in absolute terms and working ones are very precious.