I’m so glad grew up in the pre-9/11 era. Something really snapped, you could feel it, and it’s hard to explain after 20 years when its the water you swim in. There was some breathing room to be young, make mistakes.

I think that was more Columbine than 9/11, although the ability to transpose all the social anxiety from Suburban White Failson to Brown Kid With Weird Last Name certainly sped things up.

But I think this shift has been coming much longer, as we have transitioned from SuccDem capitalist welfare state to Full Blown Fascist Hellscale. Like, the 80s Crime Wave + Reagan brain worms put us on this track. And 40 years later, Boomers don't just see Brown People as the enemy. Everyone under 60 is terrifying, so they all need to be locked up.

Part of me thinks this is just the cresting of a huge wave. We're just another ten years away from the Olds finally losing their grip and a backlash whiplashing the nation back in line with the rest of the world. But another part of me thinks we're here to stay. That this generation normalized the insanity of the 80s and I'll never see a country capable of even 60s era radicalism