In the 90’s a lot of popular song were pretty political, remember Killing in the name of and even the skate pop-punk has pretty popular political song’s (Offspring, Blink Green-day). Actually political movies were also quite big in the 90’s/00’s (French Masterpiece La haine, or the whole work of Michael Moore).
I would expect to see that the people who were teens/young adult at the time would tackle all these issues 20-30 years latter when they’ll finally take the power and the reality is that everything got worse, than even talking about-it make you sound like a radical, and that the gen-X/Millennials totally failed to change something.
What happened ? and how did we fail ?
Gen X became the boomers I think. Seems it’s a trend when you get older you get crazier.
You can’t even lump Gen X as a group…
People that were married with kids before the Internet have nothing in common with late Gen X who grew up with computes; “the Oregon trail generation”.
The oldest and youngest Gen X just had widely different experiences that shaped them differently. It’s the result of starting out defining generations around societal changes so they’re similar, and then just doing it on a set schedule regardless of what’s happening.
So yeah, the oldest Gen X are a lot like boomers.
Quick edit:
As we age we lose critical thinking, memory, and other stuff.
So our brains start falling back on “cheats” like bigotry, instead of dealing with people as individuals, which is hard, your brain just assumes they’ll act like everyone else from their group.
We fall back on in-group/out group biases learned as kids.
So kids that were socialized around other groups, won’t see it as much.
Which is why the bigots fight so hard against diversity in children’s media. The boots on the ground are idiots, but the people planning and calling shots aren’t idiots. They’re usually not even bigots themselves, just manufacturing conflict to divide us so we don’t unite against them.
Don’t look at me, I died of dysentery.
American Dad had an Oregon Trail episode, and hit on the idea that spending so much time playing a game where your party just randomly dies from shit like dysenteryprobably has a measurable effect on that cohorts psyche…
Like how old school kids stories were brutal as fuck to get kids used to real life, and the opposite is the Disneyfication of always ending “happily ever after”.
Younger generations expect everything to work out and good to win and evil to fail automatically. Which I think is why so many people refuse to move past “raising awareness”.
They legitimately believe that if enough people are aware of a problem, it’ll just stop being a problem on its own
“Karma will get them!”
No it won’t, Kayden. There is no such thing.
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This quote isn’t even relevant anymore. Maybe it was when republicans were pro-business, pro- fiscal conservancy, pro strong defense, and when family values meant family values, but where are those republicans?
Those policy questions are no longer relevant. Even Republicans no longer bring them up as goals (I’ll believe mitt Romney on family values but he retired). Todays Regressives are authoritarian, corrupt, isolationist bullies, out to fleece the government and their constituents, and vent their frustrations on whatever group they can call out as “other”.
You’re probably talking about the US?
Yes, sorry
A quote tossed at me by a MAGA friend before Trump won in 2106. I stopped talking to them for a year or so because I didn’t want to say something that would actually end our friendship.
It’s such a fucking stupid, insulting quote.
Why’s that?
Because being a liberal (not the leftist definition of liberal) doesn’t mean you have no brain.
I’m assuming by your question that you’re implying it’s true, which funny enough gives some credence to the first part of the quote. Unless of course you’re a leftist, at that point we’re just quibbling over terminology.
Waauw, I’m not even allowed to ask a question. Very intolerant thought policing crowd here!
I live in a country with more than 2 political parties and ideologies. So the US false dichotomy luckily doesn’t apply.
But I do get now why people think your side of the split is insufferable holy canoly!
No one said you’re not allowed to ask questions…
As for the “leftist” part, this is Lemmy, and spending enough time here you learn that liberal has a very different meaning to some people so I was just covering my bases.