Quite literally, because they led the most comfortable lives of any generation of American ever, and maybe even across world history. (Would be curious if that take is correct)
Imagine being a middle-upperclass citizen at the height of the Roman Empire, now imagine having that level of safety and stability as well as modern science, medicine, and technology. If you can see how much economic prosperity they inherited, they basically had to try to fail. They fell into affordable housing, cheap college, cushy jobs. Some of these people won't even spend most of their lives working. Some are already retired in their 50's, and not because they were some clever genius with managing money, its because they were born at the right time.
They are the first ones to tell you they "worked hard" because they worked at all. They are babies that never had to grow up. As far as they are concerned, nothing needs to change because look at how good their life is. Any change that could possibly happen would be a negative or uncertainty in their eyes. The moment something is uncomfortable in their lives, it is someone else's fault. Yours.
The truth is I understand why they think this way. It would only be natural if that is the life you have lived. In a sense they are just blind to the problems of others because they never needed to develop the eyes to see. Obviously not everyone in the age group is the same, but it is stunning to see how many of them follow the same patterns of thinking. Its like everyone's Dad is an asshole conservative.
the good boomers are dead. this isn't "the only good boomer is a dead boomer" it's "COINTELPRO, HIV, or a lifetime of experimenting with drugs has killed off all the good boomers by now, and all that's left is the worst of the worst"
Quite literally, because they led the most comfortable lives of any generation of American ever, and maybe even across world history. (Would be curious if that take is correct)
Imagine being a middle-upperclass citizen at the height of the Roman Empire, now imagine having that level of safety and stability as well as modern science, medicine, and technology. If you can see how much economic prosperity they inherited, they basically had to try to fail. They fell into affordable housing, cheap college, cushy jobs. Some of these people won't even spend most of their lives working. Some are already retired in their 50's, and not because they were some clever genius with managing money, its because they were born at the right time.
They are the first ones to tell you they "worked hard" because they worked at all. They are babies that never had to grow up. As far as they are concerned, nothing needs to change because look at how good their life is. Any change that could possibly happen would be a negative or uncertainty in their eyes. The moment something is uncomfortable in their lives, it is someone else's fault. Yours.
The truth is I understand why they think this way. It would only be natural if that is the life you have lived. In a sense they are just blind to the problems of others because they never needed to develop the eyes to see. Obviously not everyone in the age group is the same, but it is stunning to see how many of them follow the same patterns of thinking. Its like everyone's Dad is an asshole conservative.
the good boomers are dead. this isn't "the only good boomer is a dead boomer" it's "COINTELPRO, HIV, or a lifetime of experimenting with drugs has killed off all the good boomers by now, and all that's left is the worst of the worst"
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