Yeah I think something that people who didn’t grow up upper middle class in the US don’t realize is that a good chunk of the kids who grew up upper middle class in the US have this weird relationship with their parents where their parents refused to accept them into their economic class, or at least refused to acknowledge their children are entering a completely different life experience and economic class than they did.
I think it stems from a sense that their quality of life as people living the american dream enshittified over their entire lifetime and now the only way out of it is to admit they have built a way of seeing the world that is utterly blind to the most critical things and they simply refuse to do that, full stop.
(I don’t mean this is as “feel bad for us upper middle class kids” at all, no pity needed… I am simply pointing out how fucking weird it is, how hollow the whole american experience is even sometimes for the children of successful parents, it emphasises how the US pysche really is a pathology.)
There will never be a generation of humans that will do more damage to Earth and the future lives of human beings than upper-middle class boomers, it simply won’t be possible without the extinction of humanity. If any future generation does it will lead to the extinction of the human species, and if any generation before us betrayed the human species as deeply we simply wouldn’t be here to talk about it as we would already be extinct.
I know focusing on it as a generational thing isn’t helpful in a lot of ways, I recognize that and I don’t blindly hate boomers or anything, I love talking to people older than me they often have so much wisdom to learn (and often have transmuted that wisdom into a killer humor too) I just wish there were more of those older people and less of the older people that I have learned I have to actively not listen to because their advice/help is so unhelpful it is worse than nothing by a margin as wide as climate change is dire.
I fled from one parent before 18 and managed to basically force my estranged father into taking me in but the only reason I didn’t get kicked out at 18 by him was because I had 2 months of school left, was gone the second that wasn’t true anymore (both Gen X).
He recently lamented to me that I didn’t visit often after that and figures I must have hated living with him so much that I chose to avoid him.
God they are so fucking oblivious to how they make the world a miserable place.
He said he wanted to teach his new kid more resilience than me. God help them.
Oh yikes at that last bit. I hate how few parents seem to understand that the basis of resilience is support. It begins at a young age, you let them go get hurt and come crying to their parents who patch their injuries, tell them that they were brave and tough, and let them feel comfortable venturing out again. You scale it up as they get older, so they know that they’re encouraged to seek the boundaries of their world and abilities independently, and that when they fail they have people who can help if they need it.
Trying to “toughen up” a kid so often just scars them and encourages an unhealthy relationship with risk (and with their parents)
ah yes the PMC class, professional management consultants. its funny because the PMCs themselves are being tricked by the owners into thinking that they are also owners and not workers. So why should they bother organizing with the riffraff?
It is amazing how the Nepo baby parasite class was able to convince the boomers to not help their children.
As if there is a class war going on out there lol
Kicking kids out at 18 was so in vogue 20 years ago. Boomers are fucking caricatures.
I wonder if that still happens
Yeah I think something that people who didn’t grow up upper middle class in the US don’t realize is that a good chunk of the kids who grew up upper middle class in the US have this weird relationship with their parents where their parents refused to accept them into their economic class, or at least refused to acknowledge their children are entering a completely different life experience and economic class than they did.
I think it stems from a sense that their quality of life as people living the american dream enshittified over their entire lifetime and now the only way out of it is to admit they have built a way of seeing the world that is utterly blind to the most critical things and they simply refuse to do that, full stop.
(I don’t mean this is as “feel bad for us upper middle class kids” at all, no pity needed… I am simply pointing out how fucking weird it is, how hollow the whole american experience is even sometimes for the children of successful parents, it emphasises how the US pysche really is a pathology.)
There will never be a generation of humans that will do more damage to Earth and the future lives of human beings than upper-middle class boomers, it simply won’t be possible without the extinction of humanity. If any future generation does it will lead to the extinction of the human species, and if any generation before us betrayed the human species as deeply we simply wouldn’t be here to talk about it as we would already be extinct.
I know focusing on it as a generational thing isn’t helpful in a lot of ways, I recognize that and I don’t blindly hate boomers or anything, I love talking to people older than me they often have so much wisdom to learn (and often have transmuted that wisdom into a killer humor too) I just wish there were more of those older people and less of the older people that I have learned I have to actively not listen to because their advice/help is so unhelpful it is worse than nothing by a margin as wide as climate change is dire.
Kicked out well before 18.
I fled from one parent before 18 and managed to basically force my estranged father into taking me in but the only reason I didn’t get kicked out at 18 by him was because I had 2 months of school left, was gone the second that wasn’t true anymore (both Gen X).
He recently lamented to me that I didn’t visit often after that and figures I must have hated living with him so much that I chose to avoid him.
God they are so fucking oblivious to how they make the world a miserable place.
He said he wanted to teach his new kid more resilience than me. God help them.
Oh yikes at that last bit. I hate how few parents seem to understand that the basis of resilience is support. It begins at a young age, you let them go get hurt and come crying to their parents who patch their injuries, tell them that they were brave and tough, and let them feel comfortable venturing out again. You scale it up as they get older, so they know that they’re encouraged to seek the boundaries of their world and abilities independently, and that when they fail they have people who can help if they need it.
Trying to “toughen up” a kid so often just scars them and encourages an unhealthy relationship with risk (and with their parents)
ah yes the PMC class, professional management consultants. its funny because the PMCs themselves are being tricked by the owners into thinking that they are also owners and not workers. So why should they bother organizing with the riffraff?