Maybe I'm just very uniquely fixed on the ethics of naming culture but that was the ugliest and most concerning joke honestly It's like those kids have internalized all these Ross Douthat-esque ideas about respectability and the Biblical ideal of setting aside childish thingshttps://twitter.com/spacetwinks/status/1272185342293159937 …
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
this is reminding me of the time a lady who worked at Nintendo got adopted as an adult by an elderly couple she became really close friends with and teenagers on the internet lost their shit at her
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Replying to @mmmfromage
Teenagers are really shitty about traumas they don't have If baby boomers had social media as kids they would have been such massive assholes online to Holocaust survivors
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Mrs Maisel is kind of obliquely about this
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
This general shittiness we don't talk about that young Americans in the '50s felt about growing up in the aftermath of the world-changing war they didn't actually have anything to do with That kind of gets buried under Happy Days-style nostalgia
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
But that was the driving force of, for instance, the incredibly defensive and self-loathing narcissism of much of the Beat Generation (if you actually read On the Road all of the characters are just the most viscerally loathsome dudes)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
"The climactic struggle against fascism is over and everything is fine now so I guess I'll just fuck around and shit"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
(I don't want to say I have no sympathy for the Beats or the desire to just drift around the country smoking weed and getting drunk and fucking strangers, although the part where you occasionally knock them up and have to hurriedly skip town isn't great)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
(But seriously the beatnik shit is a pretty sound argument for the whole generational cycle thing if you look into it, which most people our age haven't Like the Silent Generation totally are the Gen Xers to the Greatest Generation's Boomers On the Road is their Reality Bites)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
And hence the current resonance where the Zoomers seem to be consciously replicating the Xers' stance of "I'm a cynical nihilist, this grand drama -- WWII, Vietnam, 9/11 -- you older siblings think your lives were defined by is silly to me"
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I mean, like, when the Boomers were teens and coming up that was a "generational shift", one of the first ones that mass media and pop culture recorded in fact "Holy shit why are the teens so full of themselves all of a sudden, I thought teens were docile and disaffected"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
"All of a sudden these young people are all Dramatic and Earnest and genuinely think they're the main character of history, how'd that happen" (The "big" generations tend to have immediate successors they successfully suck the oxygen away from and the the next one takes it back)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
(These are extremely broad and sweeping generalizations that many individual people within their "generational cohort" consciously defy but still stereotypes are there for a reason)
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