It’s really wild how all these things are coming back around again.
It’s especially wild because it seems lately the mediascape has been practically saturated with stuff (most of it seemingly from very misinformed/uninformed people that are much younger than the boomers) that tries to paint “boomers” as one big monolith.
In some moments, I actually start to nearly buy into this nonsensical rhetoric.
And then I remember this is the generation where things like the Panthers, the Weather Underground, the SDS, and so much else was going on as well. The people kind of mindlessly spewing stuff about boomers would probably do well to zip their lip for a bit and actually learn something about that generation.
The animosity between generations is a lot like the animosity between races or most other us-vs-them bullshit in that it’s manufactured to keep potential allies fighting against each other.
This is ultimately a class war - everything else is a distraction.
It’s really wild how all these things are coming back around again.
It’s especially wild because it seems lately the mediascape has been practically saturated with stuff (most of it seemingly from very misinformed/uninformed people that are much younger than the boomers) that tries to paint “boomers” as one big monolith.
In some moments, I actually start to nearly buy into this nonsensical rhetoric.
And then I remember this is the generation where things like the Panthers, the Weather Underground, the SDS, and so much else was going on as well. The people kind of mindlessly spewing stuff about boomers would probably do well to zip their lip for a bit and actually learn something about that generation.
The animosity between generations is a lot like the animosity between races or most other us-vs-them bullshit in that it’s manufactured to keep potential allies fighting against each other.
This is ultimately a class war - everything else is a distraction.