The assumption that old people are inherently right wing and young people are inherently left wing is just wrong. Correlating age with political beliefs is a fucking pseudoscience, and so is the whole concept of generations like boomers and zoomers. Their marketing terms, the baby boom was a uniquely United States thing and to apply that term to 20 odd years of people from across the world is just factually wrong. We got to stop self identifying with these terms because they are ageist and they divide us and they allow for shitty excuses like “it’s just their generation” to excuse shitty behavior.

What’s the point of this? Stop dunking on old people. Old people aren’t inherently reactionary.

  • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I can't tell if this is some mind body dualist idealism or vulgar materialism, but it's wrong either way.

    Taking an example you made in a previous comment:

    Think about it like this, mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of fungus. Their main job is to spread spores and once they do their"purpose" is fufilled. They still stick around for a bit but they are essentially useless.

    This would at least make some sense if you were saying the "soul" becomes antagonistic to the body after someone has children, or if you are implying that most people reproduce by 20. It would still be wrong, but at least the analogy would work.

    Going against your point more broadly, it hyperfocuses on the individual in evolution without considering the species more broadly. People contribute to society in such a way that increases the chance other people to successfully reproduce, regardless of whether or not one has personally reproduced.

    It makes no sense to say that the body killing the "soul" would increase its evolutionary advantage.