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.
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.