AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]

I dislike AOC, shes too communist for my taste

  • 315 Posts
  • 5.14K Comments
Joined 4 年前
cake
Cake day: 2021年9月15日

help-circle


  • Generations aren't a thing, but common groups of people who lived through and were shaped by common material conditions (say a world war or 9/11 and the war on terror, for example) definitely are a thing, and that's in addition to the bare fact that as the educational and indoctrination systems change and adapt to the changes in material conditions and the aims of the capitalist class these changes shape distinct impacts on the groups of people they helped form

    "Boomers" aren't really a thing outside of a sheer population boom, but "the people who's lives and world views were shaped in part by the trauma from being raised fearing imminent nuclear annihilation at any moment, and constantly told of this danger" is definitely an identifiable cohort, I'm having difficulty articulating a contemporary version of this so I'm just going to delete that portion instead because it was super incoherent(insert participation trophy joke here), but hopefully someone else can articulate an example which may have impacted them

    this is how I like to think about 'generations'


  • downbear

    I don't see this, this is not a thing in my actual irl touch grass community, if anything I feel they lean the opposite

    Edit to add my comment from elsewhere because I felt it was a much more important reason to disagree with this post than what I said above which is just anecdotal

    Generations aren't a thing, but common groups of people who lived through and were shaped by common material conditions (say a world war or 9/11 and the war on terror, for example) definitely are a thing, and that's in addition to the bare fact that as the educational and indoctrination systems change and adapt to the changes in material conditions and the aims of the capitalist class these changes shape distinct impacts on the groups of people they helped form

    "Boomers" aren't really a thing outside of a sheer population boom, but "the people who's lives and world views were shaped in part by the trauma from being raised fearing imminent nuclear annihilation at any moment, and constantly told of this danger" is definitely an identifiable cohort, I'm having difficulty articulating a contemporary version of this so I'm just going to delete that portion instead because it was super incoherent(insert participation trophy joke here), but hopefully someone else can articulate an example which may have impacted them

    this is how I like to think about 'generations'