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I mean most Boomers did this transformation and it didn't really have anything to do with their life trajectory. It's just a very solipsistic generation cultur
by CPLX 5y ago
I mean most Boomers did this transformation and it didn't really have anything to do with their life trajectory.
It's just a very solipsistic generation culturally.
When they were in their 20's they thought everyone should pay attention to them and that their drug use and weekend music festivals were unusually profound.
When they were in their 40's they thought everyone should pay attention to their property tax bills.
When they got to their 60's and 70's they thought everything should just stay exactly the same as the way they remember it and that everyone should consider their fears and confused elderly outbursts as valid expressions of reality.
Not sure it's generalizable.
- ars 5y agoFrom this post I suspect you are either in your 40's or just before. You were able to tap into the thoughts of the younger ages, but failed for the 60's and 70's.
- Spooky23 5y agoI don’t believe that people in aggregate change much if at all. We may evolve in different ways at different times, but the carrots and sticks that drive behavior are the same. We tend to idolize the distant past more because we’re at arms length, and we miss what’s around us because we lack perspective. The boomer guy who will let the world burn to protect his property values is the same as the old Italian guy holdout in the declining urban neighborhoods that I grew up with in the 80s.