Millennial here, and the Gen X person I most strongly remember in my own life is a guy who had a pathological, cartoonish hatred for younger generations. Got all his news from CNN and NPR, told me I was too young to understand the world when I was 30, blamed younger generations for ruining music, "damn millennials are always on their phones," etc.
He also had a huge number of galaxy-brain takes, including but not limited to
-The Great Depression was more devastating than Operation Barbarossa.
-The US lost the Vietnam War because it used 5.56mm while the communists used the bigger 7.62mm (and "5.56 was only adopted because new recruits couldn't handle the recoil from the older guns."). When I asked him
why the USSR went on to adopt the 5.45mm after the war, he said "that's a loaded question" and refused to elaborate further.
-Capitalism and communism are both bad, and the solution is for world leaders to get together and create a new system
-The eventual collapse of the USSR means that Lenin was a failure and therefore he had nothing of value to say
-Poor people are at least as complicit as rich people in environmental destruction, because poor people litter more
-The fact that humans don't kill infants that aren't theirs is proof of a higher power, because that's what evolution dictates we do
-Being currently unemployed means he's worse off than people in the global south who live on $2 a day
-Cigarette addiction isn't real because he was able to quit them without issue
I don't know how representative that guy is of his generation, but on the whole, I definitely relate more to zoomers than Xers.
Millennial here, and the Gen X person I most strongly remember in my own life is a guy who had a pathological, cartoonish hatred for younger generations. Got all his news from CNN and NPR, told me I was too young to understand the world when I was 30, blamed younger generations for ruining music, "damn millennials are always on their phones," etc.
He also had a huge number of galaxy-brain takes, including but not limited to
-The Great Depression was more devastating than Operation Barbarossa.
-The US lost the Vietnam War because it used 5.56mm while the communists used the bigger 7.62mm (and "5.56 was only adopted because new recruits couldn't handle the recoil from the older guns."). When I asked him why the USSR went on to adopt the 5.45mm after the war, he said "that's a loaded question" and refused to elaborate further.
-Capitalism and communism are both bad, and the solution is for world leaders to get together and create a new system
-The eventual collapse of the USSR means that Lenin was a failure and therefore he had nothing of value to say
-Poor people are at least as complicit as rich people in environmental destruction, because poor people litter more
-The fact that humans don't kill infants that aren't theirs is proof of a higher power, because that's what evolution dictates we do
-Being currently unemployed means he's worse off than people in the global south who live on $2 a day
-Cigarette addiction isn't real because he was able to quit them without issue
I don't know how representative that guy is of his generation, but on the whole, I definitely relate more to zoomers than Xers.
The sound you make when you have been completely and thoroughly owned.
Large bullet > small bullet — does sound like a flawless theory though. Size matters. 🤔
The Nazis would have won if only they'd built more Schwerer Gustavs