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i think this is a misreading. I think essential to the Boomer ethos is the belief they have always *been* the victim because they had to abandon their childhoods and teen drug experimentation and âjoin corporate americaâ (which they did wil zeal and slammed the door behind them) https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1347881741806088193
Boomers have always been the kid with the vanilla cone who saw a younger kid with a chocolate one and got mad about it.
Thatâs the lever that Fox News works on:
Gays have the chocolate cone
Black people have the chocolate cone
Coastal Elites have the chocolate cone etc
Thatâs the lever that Fox News works on:
Gays have the chocolate cone
Black people have the chocolate cone
Coastal Elites have the chocolate cone etc
Boomers were the first generation where there was a focus on childhood and being a teen in a way prior generations (who were often working as children) simply did not and it fomented a kind of narcissism that was fully actualized with the new age movement
you might think âMy parents who watch Fox News were never hippiesâ
absolutely does not matter. They went through the same cultural shift as them
absolutely does not matter. They went through the same cultural shift as them
I think itâs slightly dangerous to imply that Fox News implants ideas that werenât there before for a lot of people. I think Fox News understands the darker parts of human instinct and exploits it efficiently. You canât really re-program people with traits they donât have
statistically, no generation was freer than the Boomers. They were allowed to have childhoods. There were fewer perceived dangers. Kids rode bikes god knows where and came home when the lights came on. They were allowed to have cars young. They didnât have to wear seatbelts
as they grew up, they were confronted with messages about how all of that was âbadâ and that their parents were negligent and how they had to grow up and be a lot more strict and that has been a huge cultural shift for them
thatâs how you get a generation of people who think that safety regulations are âgovernment overreachâ but internet surveillance is âletting police do their jobs"
anyway I literally have to research boomers for my job, thatâs my 2 cents
