Gen X never “fought the man”. Their whole shtick was not caring about shit, they tried to tune themselves out of political reality by obsessing over aesthetics and music and being “authentic”. And the easiest way to lose authenticity was to care about something as fake as politics, maaaaan.
It was not just a World Trade Organization ministerial that collapsed, but also a creed that had been widely believed to be true. After Seattle, the press began to talk about the “dark side of globalization” — about the inequalities and poverty being created by globalization.
After that, we had the spectacular defections from the globalist camp, such as financier George Soros, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, and “Dr. Shock Therapy” himself, the economist Jeffrey Sachs.
There just weren't that many of us, and we grew up in the last days of the monoculture. So, we didn't have much chance to make a cultural impact before the millenials, a much larger generation, came along. Plus a lot of our ethos was anti-consumerist, search for authenticity, etc. Not really something to organize a socialist revolution around.
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Gen X never “fought the man”. Their whole shtick was not caring about shit, they tried to tune themselves out of political reality by obsessing over aesthetics and music and being “authentic”. And the easiest way to lose authenticity was to care about something as fake as politics, maaaaan.
literally rioting against neoliberalism
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/06/how-the-battle-of-seattle-made-the-truth-about-globalization-true/
As we all know the aesthetics of capitalism are beautiful and soulful and all of us lead authentic lives
There just weren't that many of us, and we grew up in the last days of the monoculture. So, we didn't have much chance to make a cultural impact before the millenials, a much larger generation, came along. Plus a lot of our ethos was anti-consumerist, search for authenticity, etc. Not really something to organize a socialist revolution around.
Plus, there's chuds in every generation.
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If you think millenals are getting commier, wait til you find out about gen z and the new gen alpha
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Currently trying to find a way to be more Communist than Stalin. Hoxhaist maybe?
If I was going to keep a generation from getting shittier over time, I would just tell them to stop aging.
I really have no answer, it's a question that has gripped the minds of even the most ironically detached hipsters of all time.