"It got me thinking"... No, no it didn't. You're old enough and smart enough to see Mr. Globohomo's bullshit yet you fail to recognize your parents inputs, which are corporate media and fellow consumers of said jew filth. So yes, while they're full of shit, YOU KNOW better than to sperg out. You also know that your duty, is to listen and respect them. You don't have to believe them or agree but you SHOULD appease them. Try understanding and compassion, it will help with your own thinking and you wouldn't blow up so fast. Family is not the one to get angry with. They just want what's best for you, yet no longer know better than you. It's a reality. Part of becoming an adult. Everyone has their shortcomings. Only Jesus was perfect. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle Here's some saved copypasta on the boomer meme by some anon. This is one of the few purely leftist memes I've seen in the past few years. It's a futurist meme which comforts children in their common false notion that they have the world all figured out and advice from "old people" is useless. It's a way for people with zero life experience and zero success to dismiss people with decades of life experience along and an array of successes and failures to draw knowledge from. Being told you are a "newbie" is not always fun, but it's sometimes necessary. The Boomer meme is a tool for young people to feel better about themselves and their lack of wisdom or education. These days, anyone who is over 30 years of age and disagrees with leftist politics or aspects of Zennial culture is called a "boomer" by default. The psychological reality of mankind is that we are not born as blank slates; we are born with inherent qualities and the seeds of unique individual talents. Marxists suffer from a complete mental disconnect with this concept. If they were to admit that people are born with individual qualities and advantages and are not blank slates, then the foundation of their philosophy falls apart. They rationalize their social engineering agenda under the premise that all people need to be "molded" into equal units. They think people must be reeducated to reject bad beliefs and bad habits they were taught as blank slate children and learn to accept that everyone starts life out exactly the same. Therefore, the majority of people who succeed are those that were given an unfair advantage, and success should be treated with disdain and suspicion. But if people have inherent psychological characteristics and inherent advantages, then their personalities and qualities cannot be reformed. Those "bad beliefs and habits" might actually be completely natural and necessary. You might be able to hold them back through force or fear, but you can't change the core of who they are. If our biological and genetic imperatives prevail, Marxists become obsolete and useless. The try-hard meme is basically the equivalent of excellence-shaming; you are supposed to feel ashamed of being better than others at a certain task or talent. I'm not sure where this hatred for competition comes from, but I suspect it has something to do with leftists and their early childhoods. Many of them are "late bloomers" who did not have many experiences winning, or they were never pushed by their parents to mature and excel. They grew to despise the idea that winning and success are so elevated in our society, while at the same time they still crave that feeling of being the best at something. So, they adopt the Marxist creed, which tells them that yes, they are losers, but it's not because they are lazy and they suck; no, they are losers because they are victims of a society that is holding them back from their true potential. Marxism tells them that the people who succeed were actually given special treatment because of their class or the color of their skin. The winners are actually very bad people who don't deserve success. If only the system was forced to be more fair, then THEY would be the winners. Thus, in order for losers to "win", they must join a mob of other losers and gain power through collective control. The successful people must be given an extreme handicap by the mob to "level the playing field". I think the Marxist ideal is leading these kids down a path of brutal delusion, because they are never going to achieve the Utopian society that they seek. The world will never be "fair", and the idea that you can force such conditions upon a culture without serious consequences is childish and mentally unstable. Make no mistake, we are entering an era in which the facade propping up limp-wristed and weak people is falling away. When it comes to economic strife, crisis and survival, there is no appeal to equality. You're in the jungle, baby, and if you have no merit, you're gonna die. By extension, trying to socially engineer our country to cater to the lowest common denominator would grind all progress to a standstill and make the crisis even worse. If "trying hard" becomes something to be ashamed of, or something that is punished, then there is no more incentive to improve or innovate or go beyond that which has already been accomplished. Our evolution ceases, and humanity stagnates. While human competition has its ugly moments in history, at the very least it must be encouraged among individuals. It must continue to be rewarded. For if we start rewarding mediocrity it will be the exact opposite of the biological drives that keep us alive. It will lead to self destruction of the entire species.