https://www.amazon.com/Days-Rage-Underground-Forgotten-Revol...
We’ve had it comparatively calm and so bombs get noticed.
-- https://time.com/4501670/bombings-of-america-burrough/
That was extreme and unprecedented for America.
I’ve only heard the relentless shit all the younger generations started talking about Boomers at some point.
Which always came as a surprise to me… If we’re going to generalize about people based on generation (bad idea, but…)— I conclude that every generation since the Boomers has been linearly weaker and less competent, in aggregate, than the generation before it. Definitely in the West, but I suspect everywhere. And no, I’m not a Boomer, I’m one of the younger ones.
Counterreaction, a lot of voices claiming to speak for boomers, or boomers themselves, have done plenty to claim "it's just young people messing up". Despite the obvious that they have been the majority voter base for decades, have more wealth as a collective, and because of their age and wealth, tend to have different incentives and opinions than the younger generations having problems to do something as simple as getting a foothold in adult life.
NB: the obvious problem isn't "boomer / old", but the nature of the social game as it is (relatively or perceived zero-sum) and the haves voting against the have nots.
>I conclude that every generation since the Boomers has been linearly weaker and less competent
Weaker and less competent how? I assure you, for every argument you'll find, you can find another argument which would flip the script.
Dude, if you think that is different than any other generation ever well, hopefully when you get older you'll learn about perspective.
The 'Greatest Generation's version of the boomers sent them to WW2 to die by the millions, but poor you, right? Never has a generation been handed such a shit sandwich by the generations before them as the boomers have handed you. Get over yourselves. You aren't so special in the list of generations.
When the boomers had nothing in their youth they created the hippie culture where it didn't matter. Today's hyper consumerist tiktok generation think they have a right to live like the made up people on TikTok do. They aren't boomers, but you know the characters on the TV show Friends could never have lived like that in New York, right? That it was a fake show that portrayed an unrealistic quality life that young people working those jobs didn't actually live, right?
And I’ve been called both in the same day.