Boomers: The Evil Generation!

[Lexicus]

Not quite. I think that every human encounter has the potential to be violent and traumatic without safeguards, and hierarchy is one of the most powerful.

And you imagine that hierarchy is a safeguard against violent and traumatic interaction?

So you hang out with degenerates?

I am a degenerate

 

[Patine]

Many of the better parts have been kept then taken for granted by those who have experienced them as a given. And some parts have been rolled back. Hippies are disgusting degenerates.

A lot of youth I see today of various counter-culture "cliques" are disgusting degenerates. Maybe they, too, like the statistical majority of Hippies will grow out of it. Here's to hoping...

 

[AmazonQueen]

And you imagine that hierarchy is a safeguard against violent and traumatic interaction?

And there was I thinking it was frequently a cause.

 

[Patine]

And there was I thinking it was frequently a cause.

"One and the same," as the creepy dancing dwarf in the original "Twin Peaks" series said two or three times.

 

[Farm Boy]

Sometimes! Though given the spread I called a lot of them Sir, Ma'am, or Mr. Mrs.

 

[Patine]

Sometimes! Though given the spread I called a lot of them Sir, Ma'am, or Mr. Mrs.

In my day, we called degenerates My Lord, My Lady, Your Highness, and Your Grace if we wanted to keep our heads!

 

[Mouthwash]

And you imagine that hierarchy is a safeguard against violent and traumatic interaction?

Indeed. It has also been a cause of violent interaction, admittedly, but the answer to war isn't disbanding society.

 

[Farm Boy]

In my day, we called degenerates My Lord, My Lady, Your Highness, and Your Grace if we wanted to keep our heads!

I was going for more "Scott's mom," and "thank you for dinner" but ya'know, whatever our 2019-the-internet-has-made-us-all-socially-#3*@#&3D and society-owes-me-both-food-and-somebody-to-refine/prepare-it-for-me-while-I-play-Mario preferred lingo is!

 

[Traitorfish]

Socialism is a utopian fever dream, but its metaphysics demands that it be seen (by its adherents) as a natural, automatic state which humans fall into of their own accord. Take those socialists who oppose 'making demands' upon authority because that would be legitimizing that authority, as opposed to the grassroots abandonment of the system they think is coming.

There's really not much point in me defending my position, then, if you've already made up your mind about it.

 

[Cloud_Strife]

Fascistic "thinking" such as?

 

[Modder_Mode]

It really only comes down to two distinctions:

Boomer = thrifty

Millennial = entitled

 

[Modder_Mode]

and also the Ministry and Message of Christ is so alien and antithetical to "Big Church" Christianity today (Roman Catholic, Russian Orthodox, Evangelical Calvinist, LDS, and a fair number of others) as to be practically unrecognizable in doctrine, so the statement about social liberalism and socialism's relationship, ideologically with Christianity is completely uninformed to begin with, and such a conclusion is easier to draw when "Big Church Doctrines" and not "Christ's Ministry" are used as the comparison point.

At no point does scripture advocate socialism.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

How did you discover that?

Because i didn't know about the existence of this elaborated generational classification with baby boomers and such. It is mostly an American thing i guess. Here in Spain it is different. We have people who lived the civil war (mostly dead) , the ones born in post-war years (my parents) also know as hunger years (40s), the generation born under Franco's development (50s-60s), the ones born around the transition to democracy and the crazy 80s (myself) and finally the spoiled youngsters who hear regaetton.

 

[AmazonQueen]

It really only comes down to two distinctions:

Boomer = thrifty

Millennial = entitled

It really only comes down to 2 distinctions.
People who like to make sweeping generalisations and those who don't.

 

[AmazonQueen]

But... AQ... that's just one distinction.

True, I was trying to be clever and mimic the format of Modder-Mode's post but tripped myself up

It really only comes down to one distinction.
People who like to make sweeping generalisations and those who don't.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Well, Spain may be an outlier.
Plenty of the themes are common though to countries beyond the US.
You know, the generation that fought in WW2, the one that grew up in the disturbing orderlyness after it, a third one to mess it up (and than think way too much of themselves for the rest of their lives).

Anyway: Point being, when you were a young adult just starting out... was there still The End of History on?
If yes, you're probably a member of GenX. If not, not.
There may be individual factors overriding that, arguably.

Don't know that you mean for "The End of History".

Lets see... I was born in the late 70s and have had a computer since i remember. Lived my childhood under the cold war (i rooted for the Soviets since i loved migs) and when i began to go out at 15-16 the music more played at the Disco was "What is Love". X or Y?

 

[metatron]

Don't know that you mean with "The End of History".

Lets see... I was born in the late 70s and have had a computer since i remember. Lived my childhood under the cold war (i rooted for the Soviets since i loved migs) and when i began to go out at 15-16 the music more played at the Disco was "What is Love". X or Y?

1. The End of History is an idea popularised in a number of papers and books, most notably Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man - crudely put and in the briefest of terms - that after the Cold War any struggly of ideology was over and "western" pluralistic democracy and market economy would inevitably spread over the planet and dominate henceforth.
It is Fukuyama's book in fact that cued Huntington to reply with "Clash of Civilisations".
While the former argument is arguably more credible to this day, a certain degree of disappointment has obviously occured.

2. You'd be clearly a member of GenX.
Since i'm of the age of the character and the actress i like to plug the relevant scene to the above effect:

"Grown-ups like to tell you where they were when President Kennedy was shot,
which they all know to the exact second.
It makes me allmost jealous,
like i should have something important enough to know where i was when it happened.
But i don't, yet.
The fact that it was a better time then, when people knew what they were supposed to do and how to make the world better.
Now nobody knows anything."​

 

[Hygro]

Boomer = thrifty

This is a boomer problem actually, an outsized concern of scarcity combined with the numbers to outvote other blocks both to support policies that reinforce notions of scarcity and distribute the leftovers their way. Millennials will be the same if we think the real economy is limited to the financial compensation we've received.

 

[Farm Boy]

...reinforce notions of scarcity?

 

[civvver]

wait so boomers are destroying the environment, but millennials are the ones who can't cook and eat takeout in heaps of disposable plastic containers, napkins and plasticware, and have a gazillion gadget electronic devices that use up our rare earth metals and end up in landfills instead of properly recycled?