I think Tyler misreads this. While he’s right that Boomers are viewed as a force of nature, ‘Ok Boomer’ signals agency to fellow Ms/Zs rather than impotence. I hear it as, “we can just go around these people or run out the clock on them. They no longer matter.https://twitter.com/tylercowen/status/1192502834803040256 …
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It also strikes me as a kind of new ceasefire agreement: Ms know debating the boomer won't lead to improvement since boomer tactics are to misunderstand and then talk over them. So in the interest of time, and to reduce boomer airtime "ok, boomer"
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it makes it even better that Boomers mistake a dismissal-as-unfit-for-purpose for an emotionally-charged insult. The passivity is the point, it’s a refusal to engage with bullshit.
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Yes, this. Boomers alternate talking at MXZ saying either: “you’re not engaged enough” or now “how dare you claim to be engaged, we defined what that means” I’m a boomer and *I’m* sick of it too
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