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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?