Summary: creepy traditionalism is intelligent 22-year-olds acting and talking like 70-year-olds in ruts when you’d expect some mix of rebellion and super-earnest politics + messy behaviors. It is creepy because it suggests premature pattern-locking as an anxiety coping mechanism.
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Counter theory: their Boomer parents went hard away from tradition. Boomers never embraced institution building or norm upholding. They went directly from 70s counter culture to 80s me generation. Gen Z "traditionalism" is a radical reaction to their parents' neglect of tradition
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And this Boomer neglect of traditionalism produced an extremely precarious world: looming climate disaster, decline of democracies, breakdown of capitalism's populist promise. Under precariousness people look for stability. Plus these problems may need anti-invidualist solutions.
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I have a close relative in this age bracket. Recently, she told me that she’s not very interested in what’s going on in the “world,” or rather, that she doesn’t have time to think about all that “stuff.” She’ll start caring when it directly effects her life.
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Intelligent, high achieving, already much better educated than I am by traditional standards. But she finds it weird that I read material that has no direct relation to my professional field. I think she views it as mostly a waste of time.
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Bonjour please find the unroll here: Thread by
@vgr: "Figured out what strikes me as creepy about domestic cozy and Gen Z yesterday. It’s the juxtaposition of unironic tradit […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1126003861959860224.html … Have a good day.
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