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Fourth turning theory is fashy crap written by a play write and a business fund manager (people with no credentials for historical analysis), worshipped by people like Steve Banon.
Accordingly it's totally subjective, a guessing game.
Truth is: No one can predict what's going to happen.
Fwiw it’s playwright
Appropriately for the meme - also both boomers.
It's predicated on baby boomers not having hard times. There's no basis in reality. Not unless one were to believe baby boomers are all predominantly white upper middle class. Not to mention one must believe history was all sunshine and rainbows until their generation (millennial/zoomer/whatever) came into existence.
Do they really think people just walked right out of high school into wealth from the career factory? This is basically the privileged upper class. Which is the top percentage of their generation. Guess what? Everyone else had it hard!
So much of current day pop culture "boomer bad" stuff is based on these stupid notions. I wonder how people are going to rationalize when baby boomers are all dead and the class war still exists. I think some younger people are in for some serious cognitive dissonance ahead.
There's plenty of poor boomers. They're mostly dead on account of being poor, we're just left with the rich ones.
It's true. But I think the point is that more opportunities were available to that generation. For example, both my boomer parents grew up in poverty. Dad was an orphan. They moved to the city with no money and made careers for themselves. Housing was cheap. That's not possible today without family wealth (in Australia at least). I'm a software engineer with an electrical engineering degree and I'll never own a house or retire. They bought houses on public service wages without degrees.
BuT LiFe WaS WoRsE BeCaUsE MuH AiDs AnD MuH CoLd WaR
Well AIDS was scary as fuck but Australia didn't have to worry too much about the cold war. Life in the 80s was generally pretty cruisy.
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I mean there is a thing going all the way back to the silent generation who had a taste of the depression and so had some knowledge of truly bad times. Even younger boomers had a decent chance of getting a job that you could raise a family with just a high school degree and older ones could be pretty successful. Having a pension was the usual. Losers who managed fast food could still afford a place of their own and a fixer upper car. I saw these things go away as an Xer but I know its still better than those after me. college loans for me was like a car loan. A very nice car, like luxury care, but still a car. So college was doable even for those whose parents could not help out. It was not long after I graduated that college loans became like mortgages for the millenials. You can have a car loan with no car and get by and you can't be doing a mortgage with no shelter to show for it. All the while a college degree debased to where its basically the high school minimum needed for any shot. Its that much worse for gen Z and I don't even want to imagine what gen alpha will have. Thats just economic. Then you take the giant fall back we had with environmental regulations with reagan. There was a lot of environmental consciousness in the 70's and it essentailly evaporated in the 80's with yuppies and greed is good. Granted this is mostly a republican effect but who were the reagan democrats? I get that many boomers are great and its not that the generations that follow are individually so great but the way its shaken out it just gets to be a more and more raw deal for each successive generation.
Not all boomers are white.
That's hilarious, do you also say that with your "death to America" hexbear buddies?
Even younger boomers had a decent chance of getting a job that you could raise a family with just a high school degree and older ones could be pretty successful.
Read this very carefully. Do you think this applied to Black people in 1960?
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Most problems are perpetuated by currently living humans. Those guys suck !
They really do. :|
So you're just gonna pretend the massively documented body of evidence that as a generation boomers have had access to unprecedented privilege in human history regardless of demographic and have also overwhelmingly implemented or voted in systems that have destroyed that framework doesn't exist.
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Boomers see the world wildly and in wild ways
Gen X ignored again, with which we are okay though.
Only thing that isn't okay is to mangle your sentence to conform to the obsolete "never end a sentence with a preposition because some old fogey said so hundreds of years ago" rule 😛
I'm ok with ignoring this rule. Most of us do anyway. While we're at it, can we also put "never split the infinitive" on the chopping block?
Yes, please!
ESL here, what would have been the more natural way?
Same here. There's probably other ways too, but personally I'd probably have gone with "and we're okay with that" or "and that's fine/okay with us". Just flows more like naturally IMO.
BTW, in spite of the tongue in cheek way in which I said it, I meant no personal ill will towards you. Just the rule and its tyranny 😉
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Here, have a Pepsi.
Exactly the comment I was looking for. Tip of the hat to you.
I was gonna post that but then I was, like, whatever.
You don't need to give air to a fascist myth
thanks, now my brain will forever connect this myth to gay sex
I don't know what any of this is!
Strongman leaders create hard times.
We should just revive everyone who contributed to this dumpster fire and make them fix it before they can go back to being dead.
Do we REALLY want zombie Reagan and hundreds of others like that running around again? I dunno about you guys, but I'm so tired of living through Interesting Times ™️ and Unprecedented Events ™️. A zombie apocalypse where they don't eat our brains, but just fuck up the economy even more doesn't sound fun.
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The generation who wants to make 80$/hour but only want to work 4 hours a day every other day but is a high school drop out and has 30 pronouns, the same people who want to protest on behalf of Palestinians, who if the said protestors visit Palestine, they'd be raped and beheaded for being apart of the LGBTQ community, the same people who wear fanny packs and socks with sandals, and the ones who are tide pods........
Or the people who wore diapers on their ears, took deworming pills to battle COVID, "injected themselves with bleach", and school shootings because the "strong men" made fun of them etc etc etc
Oh wait. Maybe they did create the hard times that created the weak men..... Just downhill from here, or unless Kamala Harris wins the election so we can create strong men again. Oh wait.... "Vote blue no matter who" is a rather weak strategy which creates low informed voters as well as the "make America great" schtick.
IDK, all of humanity is doomed. There is no saving us. We are constantly at odds with each other and no one wants total cohesiveness or even promotes it.
We are drifting away and there is no going back. Blame the "boomers" and " Gen X" all you want, we are destined to destroy ourselves and the answer isn't "vote blue no matter who" or "Make America great again".
The wrong people are being heralded as role models. Role models shouldn't be famous people or politicians. And if parents can't be role models and then they shouldn't have become parents.
Anyway, off I go to collect downvotes and snarky comments yet again lol
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Boomers were born on the third base and think they hit a triple
Triples makes it safe. Triples is best
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