Boomers look at a thing and see that thing. Millenials look at a person and see a reference, a connection with a movie, a race, an historical event. Their whole mental existence is nothing but "references".
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The central difference in thinking between Boomers and the Twitter cave creatures that mock them is in their ease in thinking abstractly, about things they've never seen with their own eyes. This is the same psychological dimensions which separates autistics from normals.
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Boomers have odd beliefs about places they've never been, but in their own private kingdoms they see and understand everything. Millenials applaud themselves for their genuinely superior understanding of climate change or Xinjiang while their neighborhoods collapse around them.
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I'm young, but I need to start acting like an Old Testament prophet and condemning my own people. YOU ARE ALL FUCKED UP! THE WORLD MUST BE PROTECTED FROM YOUR CHILDISH STUPIDITY AT ALL COSTS!
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