more to the point, perhaps, is how each generation is compelled to surrender to capital in its own way
30 years ago my college tuition was almost feasible, particularly if i spent the first year of it as an rotc midshipman (hoo rah)
a diploma -- which signals class far more clearly than potential -- is much pricier today
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 03:23 (three years ago) link
mating exploded almost instantly
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 03:47 (three years ago) link
mb I just don't know enough boomers but all the most retrograde individuals in my life are self-satisfied gen xers
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 10:18 (three years ago) link
Look me in the eye and tell me, that I'm self-satisfied. Hey, are you self-satisfied?
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 12:34 (three years ago) link
i feel like millennials are old and exhausted before their time, all too willing to hand the zeitgeist to zoomers
― treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 13:36 (three years ago) link
they seem more qualified tbqh
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzGnX-MbYE4
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
treeship getting all introspective, shocker
― mh, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
getting?
― j., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 22:06 (three years ago) link
(front) the un-introspected life is not worth living
(reverse) lottery: 2 - 12 -14- 19 - 28 - 31 - 40
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
The time has come to say fair's fairTo pay the rent, to pay our shareThe time has come, a fact's a factIt belongs to them, let's give it back
― mh, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
how can we dance when the babies are boominghow can we sleep while the zoomers are looming
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 01:24 (three years ago) link
― treeship., Tuesday, May 5, 2020 2:36 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
i'm a millenial right on the cusp of gen x and i feel ancient tbqh
― i am a horse girl (map), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link
please feel free to strangle anyone who chirps brightly, "age is just a number". put it on my tab.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 02:54 (three years ago) link
that's where generations come into play, because a 40 year old might understand a lot of a 28 year old's experiences, but a 60 year old to a 28 year old, nah
― mh, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:04 (three years ago) link
don’t think that’s true at all
― Dan S, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:12 (three years ago) link
I'm at the same shows as the 28 year olds and don't see any 60 year olds man
― mh, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:17 (three years ago) link
don’t think relating between generations is about shows
― Dan S, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:20 (three years ago) link
Shows: what, you? No
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:29 (three years ago) link
my neighborhood has turned over a bit but is still disproportionately people in their 30s/40s now
I'm thinking of the nextdoor posters from nearby areas who complain about their homes not appreciating compared to other neighborhoods or their blocks having issues with kids and thinking, yeah, demographics changed and your peers moved to other neighborhoods or the suburbs. but it's evidence that you have a demographic cohort, and you no longer live among them. not your fault, not theirs, but the houses are less-maintained and populated by younger people with even younger kids making comparably less money than your peers who moved :/
― mh, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:35 (three years ago) link
Is that really generations in the demographic sense or just commonalities between ppl are are closer in age? Like would a 2020 60 yr old time traveling boomer relate to a 28 yr old boomer in 1970 as much as they'd relate to a 60 yr old in 1970? Idk depends.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:35 (three years ago) link
generations are.. made of people.. who age
― mh, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:36 (three years ago) link
Thanks siri
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link
I mean, they might bond over having gone to the same Grateful Dead show and then one would ask wtf a smartphone was
― mh, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:38 (three years ago) link
xp otm
and a 60 year old in 1970 would have a shitload more grandkids, demographically
Ya. Some things are specific to eras and some things are specific to stages of life. Seems like the 2 get conflated.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:41 (three years ago) link
fuck you mh
― Dan S, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:51 (three years ago) link
seems more likely to me that a 28 year old might understand a lot of a 40 year old's experiences, but a 28 year old to a 60 year old, nah.
my memories of my twenties have, understandably faded somewhat in the face of further decades of urgent, often difficult struggles, but on the whole it remains the decade where my entire adulthood was formed and many of my most important days were lived out -- compared to which, whatever popular culture was doing at the time pales to insignificance.
the problems I faced and my attempts at solutions are what really mattered. if you think that the problems of people in their twenties today are of a completely different quality than in the 1970s, well, that is what each generation thinks to some extent. it wasn't as different to those in their midst.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:52 (three years ago) link
any given any year old can understand or not understand anything
that this mode of thought continues as a thinkpoint distresses me
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 09:43 (three years ago) link
deems, you're not far removed from 28, now, aren't you? sorry if I stepped on your toes there. you seem like an understanding sort of fellow. I was after speaking in a general way.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
not at all
im giving out to mh tbh
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
tbph im not sure i even read the posts under the mh post i found objectionable
this happens a lot
i think it means i overtalked ye soz folks
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
generations aren't much use when employed on the level of individuals, it's a macro big picture thing. any given 60yo might be sympathetic to the economic plight of 25yos but that overlooks how the dynamics work on the big scale
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
yes
this is a good thing
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
due to the protests i've recently been inundated with social media posts from 32-45 year olds exalting "gen z" and applying to them an essentialist laundry list of cartoonish personality traits and i don't think i can take another 10 years of this. it's just gonna keep happening over and over and over again, the same exact way and i don't want to be alive for it. at a certain point the exaltation becomes fetishistic, creepy - millennials applying traits that were bombastically attributed to them 5 years ago in a slightly more bombastic and self-assured manner. turns out zoomers are socially anxious (but it's funny), confrontational, woke, and they tip well - these have nothing to do with age, this is just how the standard twitter user with a commissioned fanart avi of themselves wants to be seen. stop projecting your idealized identity onto teenagers you weirdos! none of this is real you're just contributing to social media's drive to flatten humanity into a more flippable pancake
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Saturday, 13 June 2020 20:33 (three years ago) link
booming post
― dip to dup (rob), Saturday, 13 June 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
fuck, I should have said zooming
― dip to dup (rob), Saturday, 13 June 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
lol
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Saturday, 13 June 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Saturday, June 13, 2020 4:33 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
to be fair gen x did it to millennials first
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 13 June 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
and the zoomers will do it to the yoomers/xoomers/xillennials/zilent generation/generation pepsi/whatever we settle on in 8-10 years
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 14 June 2020 01:51 (three years ago) link
what percentage of these posts include the line "the kids are alright"?
― jaymc, Sunday, 14 June 2020 02:05 (three years ago) link
(17 year old e-girl makes a tik tok about communism) 35 year old leftist professor in bushwick: Methinks the kids are alright :) haha anybody know this girls age?— Patrick (@lunch_enjoyer) October 31, 2019
― pplains, Sunday, 14 June 2020 02:08 (three years ago) link
Zoomer fetishism is weird because they’re alsoheavily influenced by Nazi twitch gamers.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 14 June 2020 02:12 (three years ago) link
that doesn't represent the zoomers I know
― Dan S, Sunday, 14 June 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
a whole thread about disparaging people who aren't your age
― Dan S, Sunday, 14 June 2020 02:29 (three years ago) link
the zoomers you know don't represent the zoomers you don't know
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 14 June 2020 02:32 (three years ago) link
agree, but
― Dan S, Sunday, 14 June 2020 02:33 (three years ago) link
I guess we're all thinking about general statements, I'm included
― Dan S, Sunday, 14 June 2020 02:36 (three years ago) link
"Comparing generations is a very easy, very useful way to understand culture. Generations comprise vast swaths of people all similar enough to be safely lumped together and discussed as a mass, almost as if they constituted a single individual. You can speak of a generation's values and even its beliefs. Most importantly, you can blame them for things."
treeship's original post really said it all
― Dan S, Sunday, 14 June 2020 02:43 (three years ago) link