Thread ๐งต: Boomerism as a mindset is civilizational poison: it proposes selling the future to make yourself feel good or superior in the always fleeting "now". Not all boomers embody this mentality, but enough do that it's swung our entire culture completely out of balance. 1/
The boomer mentality is cold and calculating. It sits on the beach collecting pensions and social security, telling you to "stop complaining" because doing so makes them feel more more pride in their own wealth. They wrecked all of our social norms to feel "open minded". 2/
They generally believe anything and everything on TV. They refuse to admit wrongdoing. They cannot stop the train because doing so would make them feel uncomfortable, and above all, the mentality of Boomerism seeks perpetual, endless, maximal comfort. It is fanatical. 3/
A lot of this comes from Boomer resentment of their own parents' simpler lives, and in the desire of those parents to provide sturdy comforts for their children after living through so much destruction in the early 20th century. A kind gesture, which mutated due to resentment. 4/
Boomers passed this onto our younger generations as well. Millennials are "little boomers" constantly undone by stress, undisciplined, perpetually chasing a comfort that they will never be able to obtain because the era of wealth that allowed boomers to do it is gone for good. 5/
They crave nostalgia and are aggressively materialistic, because they've seen the world change and don't like where it's headed, but it's a social taboo to express the real reasons why. So they buy stuff and spend for temporary alleviation of the weight of that burden. 6/
Gen X is similarly stunted but by resentment: obsessively clawing for more to be "better" than the boomer parents they resent, broken by rampant boomer divorce and that generations destruction of social structures like the family, again, don't so in pursuit of "good feelings". 7/
Meanwhile, Gen X ended up just like their parents, but more embittered and nihilistic, due to the capriciousness with which Boomers discarded the nuclear family. This legacy lives on with spiteful, self-sabotaging hedonism and ironic detachment. But this is a separate thread. 8/
Every time you see a Kamala rally, or some "anti-hate" self-suicidal nonsense like the above, it's always led by boomers (or boomer funding) and others who have converted to their mindset. Anything and everything goes because feelings, which must be chased, are arbitrary. 9/
Demographic replacement? Justified because tolerance "feels good". Mutilation of children? Justified because saying no to freaks is "being mean". Endless war? Justified because Russia makes you feel "icky". Poisoned food? Justified because it's cheap, and cheap feels good! 10/
This mentality seeks nothing for the future and everything for the promise of an endless "now". Transhumanism, modernist art, sexual revolution, mass migration, the "numbers only go up" economy, never letting go of political power, etc. But it all has a cost. 11/
That cost is stolen from others. It's stolen from the younger generations' health, community, nature, faith, etc. The endless vortex of one generation's habit to chase their own comfort and have opinions that make them feel superior has drained the life force of the country. 12/
It's important to note this is a battle for the soul of mankind. Boomerism is a newer phenomenon, but not unheard of. What makes it unique is that for the first time in history a majority of people in society adopted this "so what" attitude towards its future. 13/
It's also important to note that there are many good boomers who despise their own generation and see these problems. Many have fought valiantly to stop it, but alas they are in the minority. The only fault of this ~40% of that generation is a much lesser error in judgement. 14/
This sub-group of Boomers wished to preserve what they had FOR the future, to pass on their comforts to their kids, to give them the life they had been given. They did this primarily by voting, precisely because they had so much to lose. They couldn't risk all of that by...15/
...doing anything else. They had TOO much to lose. So a solid 60% of boomers wanted to sap the wealth for their own needs, while the other 40% saw this was bad and wished to preserve what they could for the future generations to hopefully reverse. Noble to be sure, but naive. 16/
Ultimately this failure to put up a hard barrier and fight is what will be all of collective Boomerdom's singular legacy. I won't fault the 40% for doing what they could to keep the lights on. I thank them for it. But the 60% who happily burned our civilization down...17/
...just to pursue their own high? There is no greater crime or dishonor than to give up on the future, to sell out your children to the state, to check out and perpetuate the destruction of society because it makes you feel good. Truly vile behavior. Pride run amok. But... 18/
Once the boomers are all gone, what then? Who inherits control? When they're gone we lose the 60% of morons, yes, but we also lose that noble 40% of optimists. This latter group brought us Trump, and he is a perfect encapsulation of that optimistic hope. A blow to be sure. 19/
I can't help but feel a real war is coming. Boomers are a strange hiccup, a long pause until things go back to their usual ways. The endless wealth and comfort they enjoyed simply cannot last, and the system cannot right itself. Their nature as a mixed bag leaves questions. 20/
History is often driven generationally. What makes Boomers unique is a combination of factors:
- Size (baby boom)
- Timing (post-wars)
- Technology/culture (screens)
- Wealth/exposure (globalism)
- Lack of hard conflict (cold war mentality)
- Longevity (life expectancy extende)
- Size (baby boom)
- Timing (post-wars)
- Technology/culture (screens)
- Wealth/exposure (globalism)
- Lack of hard conflict (cold war mentality)
- Longevity (life expectancy extende)
When they're gone, both the good and the bad, we will be left picking up the pieces of that mixed bag. We must remember both: the good, in their hopeful and noble optimism, and the bad, in their dangerous and chaotic narcissism. 22/END
Hope you are all proud of me for not putting "Quick" at the start of this one for once
Great insight here, this is an example of a Boomerism which manifests in the two ways of that generation: either the self destructive, pathological tolerance virtue signalling, or genuine kindness and patient generosity of naive and nice people.
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When the boomers fully leave us, they take the last vestiges of a high trust society (even if it is in reality just vapors and illusions at this point) with them. Their strange pathology will diminish and no one will feel the need to pretend anymore.
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Again, this thread isn't meant to be a "dunk on boomers" pile on. Many may deserve such dunking, but there are many who are genuinely kind and understanding people who just want things to be good again. I love my parents and I consider them to be fully aware of how bad things are, and they never once - ever - prioritized their own comfort over me, my brothers, God or country. These are the 40%, the ones who knew better, but couldn't stop it for fear of losing that future which they so desperately wanted to give us. That noble sacrifice should be praised and remembered.
We should honor those who came before us, while understanding the flaws of their generation and the bad actors, of whom there are many. My generation has plenty of flaws and bad actors as well. We are no angels. The good 40% of boomers like my parents gave us the best fighting chance we ever had at righting the ship - Trump - even if it was a bit late in the game: and most crucially, they raised us correctly enough for us to be able to see that there is a problem, and that this country is worth fighting for. And that has to count for something.
We should honor those who came before us, while understanding the flaws of their generation and the bad actors, of whom there are many. My generation has plenty of flaws and bad actors as well. We are no angels. The good 40% of boomers like my parents gave us the best fighting chance we ever had at righting the ship - Trump - even if it was a bit late in the game: and most crucially, they raised us correctly enough for us to be able to see that there is a problem, and that this country is worth fighting for. And that has to count for something.
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