Gen-X here. We used to be called "slackers" because the world we were raised to survive in had crumbled under Reagan and Bush and we saw no point in joining the clearly pointless rat race. So, through tech, we started a world wide paradigm shift. We made our own new industry and we thrived...for a while. Now Tech is as corrupt and pointless as the shit form the early nineties was.
The point is that the only way out of this hole is to burn the old ways down (again) and do something completely different (again).
PS: We'll have to lose the billionaire class, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
Unfortunately there's also a legion of liberals that will sacrifice their lives for The Markets and defend their billionaire lords because "We need the church billionaires for society to function, what is society without God billionaires holding it together?"
@JoMiran@originalucifer We made the technology so we could do their work and have more free time, and instead they took our free time and gave us more work.
Living long enough to see the safe word that you demanded from someone who says your parents told them to pick you up become the safe word you use to confirm your video call isn't a deepfake.
I actually think it began in earnest the day those towers were hit. The response signaled the beginning of Americas decline, and the beginning of the long term plutocrat plan to loot the remains.
For the sake of others, sure, but also for yourself. You deserve a quality life too.
As someone who also grew up in a similar situation, and raised myself, it's taken me a lot longer than I would have liked to learn that not everyone in my life deserves my full efforts and attention. As you said, a broken foundation leaves many holes to fill in, and each one is its own potential minefield.
And thank god! They raised me all wrong, I always had existential dread and anxiety from the start so I'm adapted better to this fresh hell than to the end of liberal history I was born into.
For most of human's history, the world was largely the same between generations. There were big shifts, but they were much more gradual (the industrial revolution took place over the course of generations, for example). I'm not quite sure when that changed, but it was probably at some point after WW2 (WW2 was a drastic change itself, of course, but probably more accurate to call it a one-off event during that time period)
The world is changing so much more today, so it's even more applicable now than before
humans in their present form have existing for over 100,000 years. to state that the rate of change between generations has always been the same is just incredibly wrong.
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Gen-X here. We used to be called "slackers" because the world we were raised to survive in had crumbled under Reagan and Bush and we saw no point in joining the clearly pointless rat race. So, through tech, we started a world wide paradigm shift. We made our own new industry and we thrived...for a while. Now Tech is as corrupt and pointless as the shit form the early nineties was.
The point is that the only way out of this hole is to burn the old ways down (again) and do something completely different (again).
PS: We'll have to lose the billionaire class, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
Billionaires should be made illegal and taxed out of existence. It’s our last best chance to avoid a very ugly economic collapse.
it was...
If billionaires voluntarily returned all their stolen power, there'd be no need to for violence ;3
Unfortunately there's also a legion of liberals that will sacrifice their lives for The Markets and defend their billionaire lords because "We need the
churchbillionaires for society to function, what is society withoutGodbillionaires holding it together?"Maybe we could keep a couple billionaires, in jars.
Jars, eh?
::: spoiler nasty Are we going to slowly, collectively, fill up those jars with semen, like a gooner with an anime figurine? :::
Maybe it's the racing what makes people become rats
The paradigm of the market hasn't been shifted away from, sadly
Oh, so that’s why Strickland called McFly a slacker?
Mad thing is those days would be pure gravy now.
@JoMiran @originalucifer We made the technology so we could do their work and have more free time, and instead they took our free time and gave us more work.
Skiing in the snow... ouch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_Dubai
Yeah I miss fireflies
Yeah thank god they got rid of all the quicksand
I expected to be on fire more often, too.
I’ll spontaneously combust any day now, I’m sure of it!
Living long enough to see the safe word that you demanded from someone who says your parents told them to pick you up become the safe word you use to confirm your video call isn't a deepfake.
Don’t celebrate dodging the quicksand too long, or else the Africanized killer bees will catch up with us!
goddamn!
long live vaporwave
This is totally accurate if you live in the United States. They sun has set on the American experiment.
Realistically probably set getting on for 10 years ago, that’s probably when the process started.
I actually think it began in earnest the day those towers were hit. The response signaled the beginning of Americas decline, and the beginning of the long term plutocrat plan to loot the remains.
Yup, I don’t think the rest of the western world was too far behind either, if at all. With that said, 2001-2007 wasn’t bad.
The world we evolved to survive in has been driven into extinction.
Truly it never did
Well there was a point where society was moving so slowly that interactions with the world were more or less the same for a bunch of generations.
We complained about that too, of course.
I don't speak with my family. We're looking to move friends into our house. Learning to garden. Getting everything ready.
We lost the class war because they divided us. Women hate men. Red hates blue. Young hates old. Urban hates suburban. Everyone hates each other.
I sometimes wonder how different life would be if I was actually raised instead of raising myself.
If I wasn't too busy raising my siblings I bet it would have been cool.
Gen X, or elder Millennial? The latchkey cohort, as it were.
Mid-Millennial with a dead Mom and drunkard Dad. Only a decade off though.
Sorry to hear that. Hope you've found some peace.
Thanks. Setting my life towards filling the gaps he left behind for the sake of others.
Best wishes.
For the sake of others, sure, but also for yourself. You deserve a quality life too.
As someone who also grew up in a similar situation, and raised myself, it's taken me a lot longer than I would have liked to learn that not everyone in my life deserves my full efforts and attention. As you said, a broken foundation leaves many holes to fill in, and each one is its own potential minefield.
Be well
Thank you. I really needed to read that today.
wow this is an image... i don't come from America and wasn't around for the twin towers, but woah this gives me vibes... :o
im vrri surprised i got a reaction out of that
And thank god! They raised me all wrong, I always had existential dread and anxiety from the start so I'm adapted better to this fresh hell than to the end of liberal history I was born into.
Isn't this true for every generation?
Not really, it's quite a modern phenomenon
For most of human's history, the world was largely the same between generations. There were big shifts, but they were much more gradual (the industrial revolution took place over the course of generations, for example). I'm not quite sure when that changed, but it was probably at some point after WW2 (WW2 was a drastic change itself, of course, but probably more accurate to call it a one-off event during that time period)
The world is changing so much more today, so it's even more applicable now than before
Yeah. I know.
jokes on you I never lived in that world.
haha.... haha.... ha...
also, take off those rose-tinted glasses. The world's always been chaotic.
I don't like how things are right now, and yes I'd prefer to just go a few years back, but it's not like the past is perfectly safe or anything.
its not about safety. its about rate of change.
humans in their present form have existing for over 100,000 years. to state that the rate of change between generations has always been the same is just incredibly wrong.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born
Now is the time of getting off our asses and reading some books on how to be a midwife
Boomers will take the earth into the grave with them. If they can’t have it, noone shall.
Check it out check it in But the sun will never shine
Genx, lookin' pretty on par tbh
Whatever.