sneering distrust of unions
sneering distrust of science
sneering distrust of socialism
sneering distrust of wikipedia
I’d say their sneering distrust of everything has brought us to where we are now.
Nihilism isn’t witty or crafty.
South Park is a real grabbag, but they really hit the mark with Gen X yankees dismissing green energy and environmentalism for being “gay (pejorative)”. You could update that same episode and only need to swap out the last line for “that sounds woke”
You can trust unions. They’re there to make money and acting in your interest is acting in their best interest.
While you can trust science overall, there’s a hell of a lot of capitalism in there, muddying the water. Well-reviewed studies are generally pretty safe.
There is nothing inherently trustworthy or untrustworthy about socialism; it’s an economic and political philosophy that is only as trustworthy as the people implementing and operating within it.
You cannot trust anything on the internet, including Wikipedia or even this very post. There are actors with an agenda that can make every article better or worse. There is no verifiable truth, only facts through lenses, and Wiki, being a moderated system, is as fallible as anything else. Much like socialism, it is at least designed to make it more fair.
This would make sense if they didn’t vote for the people promising to fuck it up worse. (US politics only, I don’t know how generational breakdown goes in other countries)
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Gen X contrarianism is some stupid boomer shit. Its no wonder so many of them are divorced maga conspiracy morons now.
The biggest fear that Gen X has is that their parents might disapprove of them.
Cynicism, nihilism and distancing oneself from everything is not going to build anything good or allow others to succeed.
So no, not correct, not good, just a terrible mindset that will drag everyone down with you.
I thought we were known for apathy since we were constantly told growing up that our generation was the first for whom things would be worse than our parents. I don’t have a sneering distrust of everything, just cynicism towards massive, systemic injustice in the world.
That’s called a self-fulfilling prophesy.
What a dumpster fire of a comment section this is. I wouldn’t even know where to begin.
Anyways. It all goes show how counter culture anti-establishmentarianism has been co-opted and usurped by conservatives. This is by design to destroy the field of play.
It wasn’t a gen-x thing. This generational thing is a new invention and a weapon used to divide us. They put us in a ring and threw that knife in the circle, leaving us to fight to the death.
I know you smartypants are already typing out the, “hurr hurr generational strife has always been a thing”. Just stop.
The era of counter culture had its last hurrah around the time of Occupy. After which the world memory-holed it and entered the era of whatever the fuck this is right now. People too young for that era don’t have the lived experience to comprehend a totally different frame of mind that isn’t the way it’s been now. It’s only when they experience a massive world shift that they might possibly conceptualize such a thing. People who do have lived experience of the before times have largely forgotten.
This whole comment section is self evident. You’re applying the lens of the current zeitgeist over a different one and it amounts to little more than incoherent ramblings.
I had a difficult time understanding what you mean but I definitely agree that we need to stop focusing on the generational stuff. It’s capitalists vs normal people and if we don’t fight back against that core, from social democracy and democratic socialism on through, the neoliberal crisis will only worsen.
I miss when we used to talk about things as decades instead of generations. After the 90s it became Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, Gen Alpha…
And yet you’re too young to have experienced what it was like when the very concept of the teenager was created. You wanna talk about a shift?
I don’t even understand this one. It’s this a thing for Gen x? I feel like Gen x is more known for complacency.
Whatever
Exactly, just watch early 90s Simpson’s older teenagers, meh. That summed up gen x in a lot of media.
That’s just a side effect from the belief that nothing important was fixable because the interests that kept them that way were too entrenched.
It’s more apathy than complacency, after years of our cynicism being fully vindicated. A cynic is just a disappointed optimist.
Big “the government doesn’t work, elect me to prove it” energy
Except the vaccine.
It turned out to be not nearly correct enough.
Yeah everyone loves a parent who knows their kids will be shit so they dont bother loving them preemptively or aiding them in any way.
They make such good parents that make a better world by ignoring and having no faith or care. So cool. Much wow.Gen X really did perfect the “trust, but verify” muscle 😅 — the healthiest version is keeping the skepticism and staying curious so it doesn’t turn into cynicism.
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As a millennial: wait till you hit your 8th world changing economic crisis we’ll never recover from.
Yeah, we know, you move back home after every one.
Is that why our parents keep causing them? Empty nest syndrome?
Maybe instead of sneering distrust, try doing your research and vote? 20% of genx registered to vote.
*in the US.
Remarkably, there were births outside the US between 1965 and 1980
OK? That’s obvious, but we’re still in this predicament due to US citizens, genx included, not voting.
If it’s so obvious then why did it need to be pointed out and why are you reactionary over it?
There is a tendency of US citizens on the internet to assume they are the only people. You are not.
