Absolutely. A lot of boomers has been fucked over by capitalism as well. When my dad enrolled in university students were told that they could get a nice job in academia or teaching just by having a chat with their professor once they had finished their PhDs but when his time came here was next to nothing to find. The times he found some teaching jobs that wasn't just temporary positions the schools he worked at were shut down or were downsized by neoliberal austerity.
All that fuckery has made him bitter and cartoonishly reactionary. Although he is smart enough to blame capitalists, politicians and bureaucrats are to blame he is also furious at Muslims, feminists, socialists, progressive liberals, LGBT people, doctors, rhythmic music, China, vaccines, 1968, computers, BLM, political correctness, etc. etc. — Basically everything that has changed since he was a kid in the 1950's.
It was the year a lot of countries gained independence from their colonists, a turning point for the hippies, there was a revolution in france, MLK and JFK were assassinated.
If any year can be used to explain the modern day, it's 1968
This point is predicated on debunking the concept of generations though, isn't it?
Like if the foundational step isn't removing the generational perspective, then I could just follow your statement up with "Yeah, but old people are responsible for capitalism so I SHOULD be directly blaming them."
You make a good point about that shifting of the blame, but I don't think it's correct to say that is the "main" source of the bullshit.
Yeah but it's mainly bullshit because it blames older people for stuff we should be blaming on capitalism
Absolutely. A lot of boomers has been fucked over by capitalism as well. When my dad enrolled in university students were told that they could get a nice job in academia or teaching just by having a chat with their professor once they had finished their PhDs but when his time came here was next to nothing to find. The times he found some teaching jobs that wasn't just temporary positions the schools he worked at were shut down or were downsized by neoliberal austerity.
All that fuckery has made him bitter and cartoonishly reactionary. Although he is smart enough to blame capitalists, politicians and bureaucrats are to blame he is also furious at Muslims, feminists, socialists, progressive liberals, LGBT people, doctors, rhythmic music, China, vaccines, 1968, computers, BLM, political correctness, etc. etc. — Basically everything that has changed since he was a kid in the 1950's.
Your dad became a Strasserist?
Yes, basically
Just the year 1968?
Yeah... A lot of hippie stuff happened that year that changed cultural norms. And that's bad. Despite him being part of it!
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Noted pick a year and hate it for the remainder of my life, ideally at random
It was the year a lot of countries gained independence from their colonists, a turning point for the hippies, there was a revolution in france, MLK and JFK were assassinated.
If any year can be used to explain the modern day, it's 1968
This point is predicated on debunking the concept of generations though, isn't it?
Like if the foundational step isn't removing the generational perspective, then I could just follow your statement up with "Yeah, but old people are responsible for capitalism so I SHOULD be directly blaming them."
You make a good point about that shifting of the blame, but I don't think it's correct to say that is the "main" source of the bullshit.