Because the most important thing to a Boomer is the identity of a victim who had it tougher than you and ‘turned out fine’, and you should stop whining and be grateful for everything you’ve been given, because your effort is always inferior to their effort, by definition.
They literally cannot cognitively concieve of the concept that they can be wrong or make mistakes or ever have made a wrong decision or supported a bad idea.
They are literally suicidally vain, they would rather be in a constant state of paranoid fear, delusion and confusion, and vote in people who literally will kill them by proxy by taking away their health, housing, retirement and food benefits… and then they’ll demand their children take care of them.
Why do you think there is a whole social media trend of adult kids going no contact with their boomer parents?
(Disclaimer: I do not mean literally every single Boomer, obviously there are many who are not like this and are great people who’ve been trying to stop this madness most of their adult lives… but yeah, overall? The generation that grew up in the most freakishly abnormal explosion of broad societal wealth increase, class mobility and technological progress in the history of the country, possible the entire world… uh yeah, their frame of reference for ‘normal’ is an anomalous and basically unorecedented event in the known history of economics, and that has royally fucked up their perspective.)
(Barring what China’s managed to do in the last 40ish years, anyway)
(Also, the main reason this economic boom occured was because post WW2, basically every single other advanced industrial society had been bombed into oblivion, and the US was the only country that could make shit at scale. Thats it.)
Because the most important thing to a Boomer is the identity of a victim who had it tougher than you and ‘turned out fine’, and you should stop whining and be grateful for everything you’ve been given, because your effort is always inferior to their effort, by definition.
They literally cannot cognitively concieve of the concept that they can be wrong or make mistakes or ever have made a wrong decision or supported a bad idea.
They are literally suicidally vain, they would rather be in a constant state of paranoid fear, delusion and confusion, and vote in people who literally will kill them by proxy by taking away their health, housing, retirement and food benefits… and then they’ll demand their children take care of them.
Why do you think there is a whole social media trend of adult kids going no contact with their boomer parents?
They’re absurdly delusional sociopathic narcissists.
(Disclaimer: I do not mean literally every single Boomer, obviously there are many who are not like this and are great people who’ve been trying to stop this madness most of their adult lives… but yeah, overall? The generation that grew up in the most freakishly abnormal explosion of broad societal wealth increase, class mobility and technological progress in the history of the country, possible the entire world… uh yeah, their frame of reference for ‘normal’ is an anomalous and basically unorecedented event in the known history of economics, and that has royally fucked up their perspective.)
(Barring what China’s managed to do in the last 40ish years, anyway)
(Also, the main reason this economic boom occured was because post WW2, basically every single other advanced industrial society had been bombed into oblivion, and the US was the only country that could make shit at scale. Thats it.)