General Politics XII World • Page 294

David

 

genuinely why are millennials so obsessed with their K-12 experience, between this and “burnt out gifted kid” posting it’s just so lost on me lol

I also disagree with the premise “we” are able to see through the bullshit, but if that were the case it would be because we knew an internet before it was three social media websites in a trenchcoat, not because we had to cite sources in middle school papers

 

10 website sources? The internet was different back then, that’s so many sources haha

 

I miss Ebaums world and homestar runner

 

Imagine after all this spending your energy criticizing one of the only people in congress who spoke out against genocide.

 

my two most cited sources

 

I had a really old Relient K shirt that was designed as the Homestar Runner logo.

 

Homestar was the fucking shit

 

I think millenials being so obsessed with our childhoods is like a collective trauma coping thing having to do with how insanely rapidly the world changed in several different ways at once in the early to mid 2000's when we were tweens/teens.

 

Wellp got in an awkward argument with my mom's super liberal boyfriend in a crowded restaurant that I managed to diffuse. Then the next table over left for the night and a girl was like "happy birthday dude, you're fucking based" lol

 

My band is playing a show tonight so i can’t respond to all of this, but also don’t want to risk replying tomorrow and reopening the conversation after folks have moved on, so I’ll just make my last piece of it this: i think the Democratic Party is one of the parties making the world a worse place, not because it’s a position they must take to defeat Trump, but because their commitment to the donor class that funds them demands it. So yeah i agree, Tlaib should get out of it, as should all of us. Our money and time and energy and work is too valuable to spend on a party that is committed to building the world opposite of the one we want, and that regularly fails to stop a piece of shit, historically unpopular goof like Trump by they themselves being pieces of shit and widely unpopular.

She deserves better, you and I deserve better, the whole world deserves better, let’s go and get it.

 

your band rips dude the new albums slays I know I said this in the metal thread but I’m saying it again

 

And we’re all now literally middle age crisising. Losing hair. Divorces. A new generation stealing our style but with llama haircuts. Even out shitty slurs are back. But there’s also something about seeing weird nostalgia posts of kinds in like 2000s high schools that does even get me where I’m like “shit im never getting that back.”

And what you said is all true, it’s why I joke about if aliens come I know it’s a sim. We’ve seen so much shit for one generation. And then the previous generation has the audacity to shit talk us as lazy and I think it’s starting to piss is off.

 

This ends up being a tad too much, but I do think sums up a lot of the millennial ennui if you will:

 

I just think “we can sniff out bullshit because they didn’t let us cite Wikipedia” is hilarious

 

Mother fuckers we had to learn the Dewey decimal system.

 

speaking of liberal Joe rogans I just saw a tweet by secular talk and David Pakman came up in my YouTube algo lmfao

 

I think we were too young to perceive it consciously at the time, but I think that growing up in the "end of history" post cold-war world where the American Empire basically declared absolute dominance and where the economy was at it's peak, and then witnessing the fast sudden decline of that which was kicked off by a horrific moment that is seared into our memory forever right during our transition from kids to teens kind of fucked us up subconsciously real bad.

 

we all cited Wikipedia anyway! they have the sources linked right there! you just click and use those! I also vividly remember plugging URL’s into citation generators and getting accurate results by the time I was in high school. people act like citing sources in MLA format was like marine boot camp for the brain

 

Link the band

 

even the 2000s weren’t THAT bad for the millennials still in school. Like there was the horror of post 9-11 and Iraq but it just seemed different at the time. Like it seemed like it was America dealing with yet another world war 2/vietnam/civil rights era that we all learned about in history class where there were protests and rock music and at the same time we could still be kids and worry about our bullshit drama with friends and girlfriends and etc. Like I don’t remember politics or political awareness being nearly as big a part of our lives as my students lives. And I think a lot of that comes back to social media and having it shoved in our faces constantly now, even if just through memes.

But I see that chart from time to time that shows teen rates of happiness peaking and the teen suicide rate bottoming out right in like the 2006ish range and I gotta say, based off of what I’ve read/heard about high school before that time, and what I see of it now as a teacher….i see that data and I’m like…yeah, I believe that. It makes sense. And I know deep in the back of my mind that that thought HAS to be nostalgia driven. But there’s a part of me that continues to think maybe it’s not.

 

If it makes you feel better, haven’t seen any Gen-Z wearing puca shell necklaces

 

Like I have always believed that nothing in this country has felt "normal" since 9/11 and that was the starting point for the long grueling decline of everything. Zoomers grew up in hellworld, it's all they've ever known and I think in a way they are kind of a product of that, this is normal for them. We though are going to be the last generation that remembers what it was like before hellworld started and I think that weighs on us in a way. Which is why we are almost 40 and still cling onto TMNT and Disney and Power Rangers and shit.

/end amateur historical psychosocial analysis