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I keep wondering if there's a regular reoccurrence of certain moral panics throughout human history. This one is a rerun of the same one from the 1990's (see "c
by foraged_t 5y ago
I keep wondering if there's a regular reoccurrence of certain moral panics throughout human history. This one is a rerun of the same one from the 1990's (see "cancellation" and "political correctness" in higher education contexts), and it seems to coincide with nostalgia for the same period as Gen Y members are moving towards middle age, a period when political attitudes typically mutate towards conservation of the idealized youth. In this case, the representative "edgy" and "cool" dialectic, Gen X platitudic era-appropriate constants, typically disdainful of any perceived puritanical emanations.
- sally1620 5y agoI think you are correct in some sense. It is just that kids who grow up in this culture will learn how to navigate it properly, while older people struggle to adapt and find their voice. Now I know what it is like to feel old.