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drewcarreyfan@lemm.ee āØ18ā© āØhoursā© agoI swear to God, I feel like the global rise in far-right parties has less to do with any kind of global cabal, and more to do with the fact that Boomers everywhere are powered by nostalgia. Seems like Boomers everywhere will stop at nothing to bring back the world of their parents that they never experienced.
epicstove@lemmy.ca āØ16ā© āØhoursā© ago
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aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee āØ16ā© āØhoursā© ago
But the world of the Boomerās parents was ww1 into ww2. It was a pretty big deal
Dagwood222@lemm.ee āØ18ā© āØhoursā© ago
Read a book called 'Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler. He wrote it around 1970 and pretty much predicted everything that happened since. āFuture shockā was his term for the madness that people would embrace when they realized they couldnāt/wouldnāt deal with the changes that the shift from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era would bring.
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl āØ14ā© āØhoursā© ago
Iām reading it right now. I still canāt believe that a 55-year-old book could still describe aspects of my life to such accuracy!
Dagwood222@lemm.ee āØ13ā© āØhoursā© ago
It gets even worse.
He inspired a science fiction writer named John Brunner. Brunnerās book, "Stand On Zanzibarā won the 1969 Hugo award for best science fiction novel. Itās set in the early 21st Century and features such crazy ideas as middle class adults needing room mates to make the rent, wide spread homelessness, AI, endless post-colonial wars, the internet, and music videos.
bookshop.org/p/books/ā¦/7252770?ean=9781250781222&ā¦
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl āØ13ā© āØhoursā© ago
Now Iāll have to read that too. Thanks!