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Wreckage of the culture war

• program_whiz 10y ago
  Very true, humans are completely addicted to this type of thinking -- abstract, divisive, echo chamber.
• scandox 10y ago
  > Current Millennial/atomized examples are the fights over pronouns and dead gorillas. > but Generation X mostly doesn’t care, and the Millennials are not organized enough to keep ships afloat after the Boomers are gone. > On the other hand, a new “echo” culture war has emerged recently, conducted largely by Millennials over social media I think it's a mistake to adopt a stereotypical attitude to Millenials. I'm tail end Gen X and I have to say I'm generally impressed and inspired by people in their twenties/early thirties nowadays. Yes there are quirks and habits that I find amusing or disdain...but it's superficial. They have their bit of greatness in them. In general I found the article hard to argue with on some points, especially with regard to resisting symbols. However much of his approach seems grounded in a naive rationalism, which suggests that if people could only stick to pragmatism that there would be less conflict. I think removing the rhetoric that conceal the real conflicts might in fact accelerate them.
  • drvdevd 10y ago
    I wouldn't want to label any generation's members in a blanket judgement (I prefer to have faith in everyone to keep the world turning). Including the "hippies" -- many of them knew what went wrong perfectly well and knew it wasn't coming back. Take Hunter S. Thompson for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az36k4-Hc94 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az36k4-Hc94