What scapegoat? The enmity heaped at the feet of Boomers is absolutely deserved.
They voted in the worst people, they took advantage of every social opportunity only to immediately pull up those same ladders behind them, they have collectively had an outsized influence on global politics and economy for 50+ years, and they are still, to this very day, hoarding resources while perched upon corporate and political ladders as implacable barriers to young, fresh leadership. They have collectively defaulted to obsessively focusing on their own material needs and wants, while stripping the futures from a minimum of Millennial (Y) and Z generations. Anecdotally, they are the least empathetic and most gullible of rubes- defiant in their ignorance and arrogant in the face of overwhelming facts.
Obviously not every Boomer is an awful person, but as a cohort they are the worst generation in modern history.
You are ignoring the propaganda and corruption these folks experienced their entire lives, in a time where media was even more tightly controlled than it is now. This generalization and attack on an age group (not mine, I’m millennial) misses the entire point in my opinion. Getting mad at boomers is not in any way helping, especially as it relates to this article. People have been fooled their entire lives and I feel bad for all of us.
Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Boomers explicitly ushered this reality into existence. The young people are correct.
ShieldsUp@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
The young people will be the new boomer scapegoat soon enough. The latest generations are not immune to propaganda and corruption from politics.
Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
What scapegoat? The enmity heaped at the feet of Boomers is absolutely deserved.
They voted in the worst people, they took advantage of every social opportunity only to immediately pull up those same ladders behind them, they have collectively had an outsized influence on global politics and economy for 50+ years, and they are still, to this very day, hoarding resources while perched upon corporate and political ladders as implacable barriers to young, fresh leadership. They have collectively defaulted to obsessively focusing on their own material needs and wants, while stripping the futures from a minimum of Millennial (Y) and Z generations. Anecdotally, they are the least empathetic and most gullible of rubes- defiant in their ignorance and arrogant in the face of overwhelming facts.
Obviously not every Boomer is an awful person, but as a cohort they are the worst generation in modern history.
ShieldsUp@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
You are ignoring the propaganda and corruption these folks experienced their entire lives, in a time where media was even more tightly controlled than it is now. This generalization and attack on an age group (not mine, I’m millennial) misses the entire point in my opinion. Getting mad at boomers is not in any way helping, especially as it relates to this article. People have been fooled their entire lives and I feel bad for all of us.