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https://voxday.net/2024/04/19/the-world-we-lost/

#The World We Lost

Whereas the Boomers are openly gleeful to have denied the younger generations the world they knew, it grieves Generation X that we were unable to preserve it.

When Spacebunny and I bought our first house, I consciously sought one that was on a dead end culdesac backed up on a park, with the idea that the children we hoped to have would be able to run around and play there with the pack of neighborhood kids one day.

But, as Spacebunny correctly pointed out, it was already too late for that. Even by the end of the 1990s, suburban kids really didn’t do that anymore, for a variety of reasons.

https://voxday.net/2022/05/30/who-deceives-wins/

If it's in the mainstream narrative it's either made up completely, or at the very least completely misconstrued to fit the narrative. Yes, everything can be fake...at least everything on TV or overall in the media.

https://voxday.net/2023/07/15/business-when-the-bubble-bursts/

Related to this post I made: https://www.talk.lol/viewpost?postid=64b2b96bc33fe

https://voxday.net/2023/03/06/they-loved-mammon-more/

A Gab reader reacts to my response to a Boomer smugly asserting how glad he is that his childhood and youth were better than those of subsequent generations.

"Why did boomers not value their children or grandchildren? My parents (and his) had no time for me or for my children. Or we had to pack up the babies and drive to them. They didn’t seem to remember how hard it was to travel with small children. I was left alone as a child to raise myself in front of a TV while my parents worked. Asking around and I’ve found my peers had similar experiences."

"Those same parents scoffed at my husband and me for keeping me at home and living on less so I could raise our kids. My husband and I planted the seeds of trees whose shade we’ll never know. There’s a distinct lack of humility with many boomers I’ve encountered. The Bible has lots to say on the subject of pride. My parents sit on their pile of wealth and wonder why they’re lonely. The greatest generation will be the one that glorifies God and encourages others to repent. Music, clothes, cars are fun but fleeting. Folly. People matter. Pour your life out for your family, your church, your community and you will find life more abundantly."

Another child of the Boomers expresses his own inability to comprehend the way in which most Boomers simply don’t give a damn about the well-being of their children and grandchildren.

"I know the feeling. Its hard for me to grasp sometimes. All I want to do is build a legacy for my children. Real wealth as an inheritance for them. All my father wants to do is accumulate money with me having no part in it. He actively avoided bringing me into his business to the point where I had to join the military to improve the station of my family. Its something I will never understand."

I’ve seen this repeatedly in the Boomers of my acquaintance. Unlike my grandparents, with whom I was close enough that I would drive down from college to spend my holiday weekends with them, they’d rather live around others their own age and occupy themselves with meaningless social activities than spend time with their grandkids. As owners and executives, they cling to control even when they literally never come into the office instead of handing over responsibility to their eventual successors. And if they find themselves in a position where they have to choose between a sum of money and a relationship with someone, they will choose the former every single time.

Why is this? I genuinely don’t know. But in contrast, I see my Generation X peers already preparing succession plans even though they’re only in their 50s, pushing their children to accept as much responsibility as they can reasonably handle, and in general, preparing for a future in which they will play no part. Because we understand that legacy matters far more than dying with the most toys.

https://voxday.net/2023/09/30/the-kids-are-all-right/

That's why our pathetic parents always told us "violence is never the answer"...excuse me? Of course it is. Being outraged by the outrageous is not a "MeNtAl IlLnEsS!!!11!!"...in fact, if you should be outraged and you aren't, there's clearly...obviously...something wrong with you.

We're a few generations who were raised by a generation that never had to finish growing up. That's why they're so pathetic and weak. I'm in my early 30s and every single fucking day that goes by it becomes more crystal clear that the older generations, despite being literally in their 70s and 80s, are essentially still in their early 20s in terms of their intellectual maturity.

Mark my fucking words, here in the very near future, us younger people are going to have to do what needs to be done, and what I mean by that is: we'll have to let the older people starve and die.

And you know what...that will be very fucking easy for us to do. My intent is to enjoy it.

https://voxday.net/2023/10/05/norman-rockwell-paints-clown-world/

Make sure you click the link in the article.

https://voxday.net/2008/08/04/fight-club-anthology/

#Breaking the First Rule of Fight Club

"The Club That Dare Not Speak Its Name"

This is an essay that appears in the new and wide-ranging SmartPop anthology, entitled You Do Not Talk About Fight Club: I Am Jack’s Completely Unauthorized Essay Collection. The anthology was edited by the brilliant media ecologist Read Mercer Schuchardt and features a forward by Chuck Palahniuk himself.

The Physics of Fight Club

There is a savage joy in violence. The secret of the success of Fight Club is its acceptance of that basic and uncomfortable truth, which is as well-known to every martial artist, gang member, and football hooligan as it is completely alien to the sedentary sort of middle-aged individuals favored by those who publish novels. For as men have known since long before the Colosseum’s sands were first soaked with blood, there is no adrenaline rush so great as the moment when two men put one another to the physical test.

Fight Club is a fascinating little book which not only embraced that truth, but in doing so, translated surprisingly well to the cinematic medium. This should probably not have been surprising, given that the author’s witch’s brew of male fury and raw but stylized violence is almost perfectly suited for that male audience which so enjoys the cinematic adventures of Bruce Lee, Jean-Claude van Damme, Jackie Chan, and a host of other aggressively oriented male leads. The combination of that visceral appeal with the brilliant casting of a ripped and shirtless Brad Pitt for the ladies all but assured Hollywood hit status.

When viewed from a technical perspective, Fight Club is nearly as absurd as any wuxia extravaganza featuring aerial acrobatics and mad dashes through the treetops, whereas from a psychological perspective, it is impressively accurate. To the combat-aware reader, the book raises the interesting question of how the author could have gotten the latter so right and the former so wrong.

Fight Club subscribes to the common conventional fiction that it is not the size of the dog in the fight that matters, but rather the size of the fight in the dog. Although in Fight Club terms, this might be better described as the size of the proverbial canine’s violent sociopathy. As with most aphorisms, there is an element of truth to this; all things being equal, the tougher individual will usually prevail. But outside of the formalized structure of the boxing ring, all things are very seldom equal.

The most basic truth of unarmed combat is that F = M x A: Force equals Mass times Acceleration. Since Force is the measurement of what is smashing into your face and is the primary variable determining exactly what the effect of that blow will be, it is very important to understand the significance of this equation. Since Mass is a function of size, this means that a larger individual will usually pack a more powerful punch than a smaller one. Usually, but not always.

The essay continues here: https://voxday.net/2008/08/04/fight-club-anthology/

https://voxday.net/2024/11/17/boomers-boss-level-edition/

My contempt for the Boomer generation is neither unknown nor disguised. Their familial, societal, and civilizational are comprehensive. And yet, even so outspoken a critic of their wicked generation as myself can still be surprised by the extent of their sheer awfulness, which has further limits than virtually anyone of the younger generations can imagine.

I’m friends with a couple who got into a routine of leaving their kids at grandparents during the weekends. They later found out that grandparents, the moment the parents left, would go and dump the kids off at daycare and pick them up before parents came to get the kids. Like they got to see the kids once a week, and even that was too much. Despite that grandparents claimed they wanted to see the kids.

You know, perhaps its not the worst thing in the world that so many Boomer grandparents tell their children that they don’t have time for their grandchildren. Because apparently, the alternatives are even worse than we would have thought.

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One reason I love the way Lacey drew that particular Hypergamouse episode is that you can see that the GenX daughter still has love and affection for her Boomer parents, but is fully aware of the total futility of contradicting the programming that replaced the ability to think in the average Boomer’s mind. Boomers never even hear the sarcasm intrinsic to GenX speech, because metacommentary on the Narrative is simply unthinkable to those who have never broken through it. It would be like trying explain the difference between air and water to fish that have never even seen the surface.

By the way, when you learn the real reason Boomers are now mourning their lack of grandchildren and are starting to become concerned about the birth-rate crisis, it probably won’t surprise you.

“We need to have enough working-age people to carry the load of these seniors, who deserve their retirement, they deserve all their entitlements, and they’re going to live another thirty years.”

Translation: Boomers have finally figured out that all those immigrants who were supposed to replace their grandchildren don’t give a damn about them and are more likely to abuse them than take care of them.

https://voxday.net/2022/02/05/portrait-of-the-ticket-takers/

They genuinely don't realize all actually intelligent people stopped playing their game years ago.

https://voxday.net/2023/06/03/four-generations-of-demoralization/

#Four Generations of Demoralization

The demonic degradation and demoralization of the USA appears to have reached a nadir with the Zoomers.





Gen X isn’t that hard to figure out when seen in the proper perspective. We enjoyed our childhoods, for the most part, but because we’d never known anything different, it wasn’t until we became parents ourselves that we realized how insane they were and how little our parents were interested in us and our children compared to a) our grandparents interest in us and b) our own interest in our children.

Furthermore, unlike the two following generations, we know all too well what has been lost. We had the very good fortune to grow up in a mostly homogenous European civilization of the sort that no longer exists even in Europe anymore. That’s what we miss much more than our youth.

My expectation is that a Gen X leader with Zoomer followers is most likely Western civilization’s best hope for a pathway out of this nightmare. And as the madness of Clown World rises and becomes more and more obvious to the average individual of every generation, the likelihood of various potential candidates rising to the historical occasion increases.