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For too many reasons to possibly list, but one comes to my mind right now:

Because it did, for the most part, work out fine for them. Not perfect, but fine. I assume we're talking about the largely Boomer age group. Not to pile reflexive hate on Boomers, but because this is how it has actually happened.

Everything that young men and women are dealing with today existed in the 60s/70s and on, but, unlike today, it didn't actually stop the largely boomer age group from just putting up with it and getting on with life. So when they hear their kids and grandkids bitching about the same things they encountered they draw from their collective life experienes and come to the conclusion that we should just deal with it too, like they did.

Now...I'm sure I don't need to go into WHY things aren't exactly like they were for the boomers, but I will say this for what it's worth: we all, boomers, millennials, everyone...use our childhoods as our reference point for the rest of our lives. For the boomers, that was pre-clownworld, and...for the most part...while they also encountered Zog, they were largely able to "overcome it". After that they were largely insulated from how perversely it was affecting their children and grandchildren.

None of that is to excuse them for ignoring what should have been the obvious plight of their children and grandchildren, but it is my attempt to at least understand it. And actually, I am seeing some cracks in their ability to ignore clown world as a generation.

I don't think your average millenial man, once a father, will have any illusions about the hellscape they'd be forcing their sons and daughters to enter if they tried to make them go to college. I think we'll see more sensible actions from younger white men going forward, it just won't happen as fast as your average Goat would like it too. Nothing ever changes in society as fast as I'd like it to, but at least I've hung on long enough to see that things can change. I don't think it's any secret that the rebels in society are young "alt-right" "neo-nazi" men, which, because of how being cool works, makes them cool.

There was a time where that never seemed possible. It just took 10 years when I would have thought it could take 5. It's been longer for the people older than us. But I'm starting to ramble...

For too many reasons to possibly list, but one comes to my mind right now: Because it did, for the most part, work out fine for them. Not perfect, but fine. I assume we're talking about the largely Boomer age group. Not to pile reflexive hate on Boomers, but because this is how it has actually happened. Everything that young men and women are dealing with today existed in the 60s/70s and on, but, unlike today, it didn't actually stop the largely boomer age group from just putting up with it and getting on with life. So when they hear their kids and grandkids bitching about the same things they encountered they draw from their collective life experienes and come to the conclusion that we should just deal with it too, like they did. Now...I'm sure I don't need to go into WHY things aren't exactly like they were for the boomers, but I will say this for what it's worth: we all, boomers, millennials, everyone...use our childhoods as our reference point for the rest of our lives. For the boomers, that was pre-clownworld, and...for the most part...while they also encountered Zog, they were largely able to "overcome it". After that they were largely insulated from how perversely it was affecting their children and grandchildren. None of that is to excuse them for ignoring what should have been the obvious plight of their children and grandchildren, but it is my attempt to at least understand it. And actually, I am seeing some cracks in their ability to ignore clown world as a generation. I don't think your average millenial man, once a father, will have any illusions about the hellscape they'd be forcing their sons and daughters to enter if they tried to make them go to college. I think we'll see more sensible actions from younger white men going forward, it just won't happen as fast as your average Goat would like it too. Nothing ever changes in society as fast as I'd like it to, but at least I've hung on long enough to see that things can change. I don't think it's any secret that the rebels in society are young "alt-right" "neo-nazi" men, which, because of how being cool works, makes them cool. There was a time where that never seemed possible. It just took 10 years when I would have thought it could take 5. It's been longer for the people older than us. But I'm starting to ramble...

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Boomers didn't have to overcome shit. They were handed the incredible wealth of the post-war Western world and proceeded to squander it all. All a Boomer had to do to "make it" was pass HS and show up for his factory job with a pension. That was it. No other generation has ever had it this easy. Their own fathers and grandfathers had to fight in brutal global wars and live through mass economic depression. Boomers are a damned joke.

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Yeah, I know all of that, we all do. Did you see where I put "overcome" in quotes...?

I guess, once you get past the anger involved with being this thoroughly let down, you find yourself asking "how" and "why"...and that's what I was getting at.

In their minds, they DID overcome what they had to. The fact that they collectively seemed to have ignored the subsequent long term suffering of following generations, to my mind, borders on a sort of mass, generation wide hypnosis...basically making them the generational equivalent of the meme with the cat in a burning room going "this is fine", but in our case their own children and grandchildren were burning in the flames too.

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OK, I will agree with that. They do seem to be in a fog, of sorts. The 2008 crash that destroyed their retirement savings really broke a bunch of them since they had been on basically an unbroken string of wins since they were born.

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