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15742160? ago

There does seem to be a concerted effort to divide this subverse into Boomers vs the rest, I've observed. Too often a seemingly great comment chain dissolves into "fuck off Boomer, what did you do to beat the cabal in your time?" It's seems to be another divide and conquer strat by the DS.

15744396? ago

There's a lot of jealousy. The boomer generation was probably the luckiest generation and got to experience the whitest white America ever. Back when people were polite and saying "heck" was blasphemy. Compare the social atmospheres of boomers when they were teens and my generation (gen z). My generation can't even decide what gender they are and it's offensive to sing certain Christmas songs and it's racist to eat pb&j with white milk. The normal ones of us are hyper alert to politics and realize what our teachers are trying to do to us as well as tv shows and most media. Boomers would "walk a mile in the snow uphill and like it", and I'd take that shit any day over whatever weird anti-logic environment I'm growing up in right now. It's like when someone has a party at your house and doesn't clean up anything and leaves it all trashed. Yeah, there's lots of reasons to be jealous of boomers and the era they grew up in. Pictures of American families in the 50's invoke the same feelings in me that blacks get when they see pictures of Wakanda.

15745825? ago

You have glorified a not so glorious time period. I knew many parents of boomers who were alcoholics due to WWII and other wars. Fathers who came home from work and drank and yelled and.... functional alcoholics.

I knew many boomers who lost fathers, brothers, uncles in the Vietnam War. At the beginning of the Vietnam war I knew college students who signed up to be medics who never came home. I knew guys who who experienced the effects of agent orange and saw how it affected their children. I knew mothers and fathers who were abusive to their children both physically and sexually and society turned a blind eye.

I remember gas lines, War protests, and crazy hippy crap. We lived on college campus in the 60s and that was not pretty or good for children. I knew kids who did LSD. There is good and bad in every time period, make the best of your time because in 40 years some will be writing about how your time was the best.... and you will know it was not so bright and shiny.

15749093? ago

Indeed, many will write about these times.

We will live in unrecognized infamy until our time stands still.

Not to worry, as there are many perks to living a lifetime of silence behind the green door.