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I ask for personal reasons.

I, personally, don't know of a single boomer who takes ownership over clown world. It's not younger people who are letting ourselves be divided against the boomers. It's the boomers who have made the choice to divide themselves against younger people.

I think the main thing is this: so many boomers think that they are the "good boomers". They think that, because they aren't actively adding to clown world, they aren't causing it, so they aren't bad. What they seem to not realize is, they also aren't actively doing anything about it. And in their case, that isn't negatively affecting them because they're already out of the game.

But they sit there and watch their sons and grandsons die on the vine and don't do anything about it because that might offend people who hate them.

2008 was more than a recession. It was, literally, by the definition of the words, a depression. But it was more than that. It was a generational line in the sand...

First off...the stock market. I'll NEVER forget that, in the midst of the worst economy since the great depression, the stock market just kept growing and growing....which is fucking fantastic if you're already retired and your retirement is in the stock market. Isn't it...? It is...

Here's what happened: quantitative easing. They "printed" digital dollars and pumped them directly into the stock market. Bypassing the ENTIRE real economy. So despite the fact that working people were eating shit...retired people walked around like they were fucking geniuses.

And the majority of boomers were retired then, but those that weren't were the most senior people in the work place and the very last people to get laid off. Which, unsurprisingly, was a policy all those most senior people must have been the ones to put in place.

So in those ways, and so many more, the 2nd great depression (literally that's what happened) was/is unique compared to the 1st great depression because it was...literally...generational in nature. The boomers, as a generation, collectively decided to economically fuck their sons and grandsons to buy some more time before they died to not feel the collective consequences of their collective behavior.

Which brings us to today....

And I'll ask you again...do you personally know any boomers, left right center, it doesn't matter, who admit everything I just said? It's like dealing with women. You sit there and ask yourself, "Do they really not realize their own bullshit?"

Let me ask you a maybe easier question, "Do the boomers really not realize their own bullshit?"

I'm being serious...young people are literally starving because of economic policies that old people put in place to stop old people from starving. It's beyond obvious that old people are at least acting like they don't realize this, but what I'm asking is...do they genuinely not realize this, or is it just an act?

EDIT: I LOVE getting downvoted. It's how you know you've pissed off the morons.

EDIT2: So about an hour after posting, I have 6 comments that say they don't know any boomers that have taken ownership over the situation they're handing off to younger people, and 1 that does. That doesn't surprise me. It is interesting how childish such a simple question makes people in the responses...plus the downvotes...it all smacks of being juvenile...which they quite literally are.

EDIT3: Holy shit, the response this post has gotten is actually, literally proof of the point of the post...

EDIT4: Well you can clearly tell I'm talking to the retired generation this morning. Fucking lol man...as if we needed more proof of why I needed to make this post...but incase you did need more proof, you could always go through this comment section.

EDIT: And as if on que - https://voxday.net/2024/03/04/the-american-dream-is-over/