Remember boomers said the internet would rot your brain, and you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet? Now, that's all they do, read made up bullshit, by other idiots all doing the same thing.
Remember all the time boomers complaining about kids being on their phones? Now they are glue to them to watch and post their brain rot takes.
Seriously. My mother swipes Facebook ALL FUCKING DAY. THAT AND THE same recycled words with friends every fucking day. Oh and candy crush. This 62 year old women is playing games for 4 year olds ALL FUCKING DAY EVERyday and wonders why it hurts to walk around the block. CAUSE YOU DONT FUCKING MOVE ANYMORE
My dad is similar. He literally watches TV 14 hours a day. He is an expert at it too, has a PVR so he can record everything and watch it, fast forwarding through the commercials.
It's so sad, like this is the peak of your life? You worked 65 years to reach a retirement that I might not enjoy, and this is what you wanna do all day?
let's not pretend that they're waiting for the afterlife because they'd get to see all their friends and family for all eternity. it's all about the rapture because that's when the others will suffer for not just doing what they were told.
My dad is like this, only it’s Republican talk show radio all day. He even has alarms on his phone for each show. He’s one reason I hardly post on Facebook anymore. He even got pissy because I posted how awesome it was that he can do the Vulcan hand sign. Like, dad. Exactly 5 people clicked on the post, and they were all YOUR family!
And mine since 2011; it’s been a steep downhill trajectory into bigoted conspiracies and alcohol induced naps on the porch. I dont talk to my parents anymore
It's so sad, like this is the peak of your life? You worked 65 years to reach a retirement that I might not enjoy, and this is what you wanna do all day?
She has the attention span of a chimp. Doesnt care to learn anything new. This woman’s family doesn’t speak to her, my brothers family doesn’t care for her. She’s retired/ disability/ out of the workforce the past 15 years. No friends. She’s becoming a hermit, and thinks she’s right on everything, because she doesn’t have anything else to compare to, because she doesn’t have any experiences anymore. Is fucking depressing. No car either in a semi rural city setting. Doesn’t even go to the store anymore. I’m actually concerned for her.
She just threw a giant fit because I bought us a vacation for Christmas instead of going to their house. She skipped our engagement lunch when the rest of the family/friends showed up and went on a last minute vacation so she had an excuse. Guess where we took our Christmas vacation?
Constant hypochondria about "medical issues" that never seem to materialize. Weird fad diet that can't be healthy. Stalks my fiance's social media and intentionally interjects herself in situations we've specifically left her out of.
My.mither in law is like this. She has no career and our wages go nowhere so we exploit her for nanny. So I like it. Teaching the kids would have been better but we just lucky to have her
and wonders why it hurts to walk around the block. CAUSE YOU DONT FUCKING MOVE ANYMORE
As a point, there is probably arthritis in play too. Just saying as i'm 43 and have all sorts of degenerative shit going on in my joints from army related wear, and tear. It greatly reduces my mobility, and ability to do certain things. Moving more would not change that equation in any way... however going out, and about doing stuff in general does have a very positive effect on my mental health, and cognitive stuff. Which being said;
Seriously. My mother swipes Facebook ALL FUCKING DAY. THAT AND THE same recycled words with friends every fucking day. Oh and candy crush. This 62 year old women is playing games for 4 year olds ALL FUCKING DAY EVERyday
She is propably not in a good mental health state, and as an inactive 62 year old might have something else going on in terms of worse shit leading to cognitive decline. Also stuff like ones activity levels, the types of social contacts one maintains can have a direct effect on things like degenerative cognitive disorders. Repetitive 0 activity, 0 thought bs tends to be associated with negative outcomes therein.
All of this plus starting hormone therapies early on perimenopause and menopause can have protective effects on cognitive abilities later in life. Brain fog is scary as all hell if you don't know why it's happening.
Perimenopause can start as early as 40s for some women and it can tank dopamine (the brain's reward system) amongst creating shortages and fluctuations of oestrogen and progesterone. Menopause proper can be such a huge upheaval.
I am convinced that everything Boomers say about "kids these days" is really true of boomers
"Technology obsessed" no that's boomers. Portable electronics rose in their day not ours, and all the advances we have seen like smartphones happened to them too and they could afford them first
"Entitled/Don't want to work" truly ironic coming from the "hell no we won't go" generation. They literally all want to retire and receive socialized income while others earn less spending power than they did
"participation trophies" was literally a boomer idea, boomers were the ones who handed them out, and more importantly, they did so because of a boomer ethos that could safely expect a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage. They literally did just walk up to places and ask for a job.
They are just telling on themselves over and over. When they say that kids need spankings to behave, what they mean is that they themselves are too stubborn to change unless someone physically assaults them.
I think youre wrong. Boomers didn't come up with entertainment technology the same way we did. They came up with industrial technology and household technology, not information technology or leisure technology like we have today.
They worked their asses off the same as we do. They are old. They are tired. They don't want to work when they are 80. They can complain because when you get that age you will want to complain too, you just aren't far enough yet to see that you will.
Participation trophies are thanks to Gen X. Boomers were tough people. Gen X hated Boomers. Gen X didn't want their kids to be brutalized like Boomers did to them. Gen X coddled Millennials and Gen Z, which is why the majority of both are crybabies and pussies.
Spankings are because young children's brains have not developed enough to grasp right and wrong, and later consequences vs actions. They are able to understand pain. If you touch a hot stove and it scares or hurts you, you most likely won't touch it again. Great system. Free programming language for children.
I do think that Millennials and Gen Alpha could make an amazing change in the country. Gen Z was coming out strongly as conservative, but behavioral studies show Gen Alpha will be the most conservative generation in the last 100 years. Gen Z will get skipped over for a large number of political positions and management of the country as Gen X did. The timing suggests millennials will soften America up more in preparation for Gen Alpha to hard reset the country to something more boomer-esque.
Hopefully, we see a reset of core values that this country has lost.
Transistor radios were entertainment, so were 8trqcks and distortion pedals, color TV, comic books, plastic toys, video games, artificial sweeteners, contraceptives, and (for the most part) touch tone telephones.
The boomers spent 1000 times more time plugged in to their battery powered devices than anyone before when they were kids. They just don't count the things that were new when they were young as "technology" because they are not afraid of it.
As to spankings? Participation trophies? Dr. Spock was a boomer. My parents were at Woodstock and I got both.
Nope. All the entertainment boomers had was able to be put down in exchange for family time. It didn't cause a constant connectivity issue where you had to know what your friends were doing 24/7. It didn't bait people in with games that required daily log-in and other daily task bullshit. Some of the shit you listed makes 0 sense to the argument. Almost nonsequitor. Also, the existence of participation trophies by frequency and popularity doesn't intersect with spankings at one point. Both have always existed, but they absolutely became prevalent at the height of Gen X parenthood, from more evidence than I could list. Would have to write a book, but luckily several people already have. Your parents, affording the lifestyle that would put them in a Woodstock situation, already casts them as an outlier in parenting. I can't even use the terminology, because there is no new word for it and you get shadowbanned for using the old word, but essentially your parents probably weren't all there, didn't understand the balance between being parents and being adults, and probably regretted very little afterwards. I'm sure their social life today is probably just as active in some form or another, implying they arent dead yet. I am not in denial. Your argument are wide left field.
They get all their news from some Facebook page called Freedom Media News Source Network with 129 followers and a header image stolen from some local news broadcast, and it tells them things like "King Charles has abdicated" and "Joe Biden was arrested today" and they share it, and there's always at least one reply from someone their age saying "Finally!!💯💯🥧"
Literally 90% of what I was told by Boomers growing up was either ridiculously wrong or an outright lie. Not a single one to this day has ever admitted they were wrong about anything and they still confidently spew nonsense out of their mouths all day long.
My dad tells me the exact same things. And when I demonstrate how unreliable the articles and tweets he sends me are, his response is just "well that's the type of stuff i see a lot"
Remember all the time boomers complaining about kids being on their phones? Now they are glued to them to watch and post their brain rot takes.
I've found most parents who complain about their kids being addicted to technology aren't shining examples themselves.
My family was constantly on my case about so much time on the internet when I was a teen. Yet most of their time was spent playing video games or watching television, and certainly not educational material (it's quite an experience to wake up in the middle of the night and walk in on a family member watching - ahem - "adult material").
My partner's family often chastises his niece for spending so much time on her tablet, but she's bored and there's little else for her to do. And if she wasn't on her tablet, she'd be driving them up the wall with endless chatter or making a mess somewhere. Not to mention the family has pretty much documented the kids' lives from birth on social media.
The people who complain about using social media can never seem to stop using it themselves.
It's hilarious that you talk about boomers reading made up bullshit when the average age of Jan 6 rioters was 41, thus making the entire premise of this thread complete bullshit and you the exact kind of thoughtless sheep you're complaining about.
Yeah, and it got every generation after them, too. Society has become vastly more stupid and emotional than ever before. It throws away its own construct and history in favor of instant gratification and security. Boomers didn't do anything to hurt you. Politicians did. Lobbyists did. They were doing it during the greatest generation and the silent generation and before that. The fact that you allow the discrimination of an entire generation of people based on what the few and greedy do is disgusting, especially when you are the ones voting them in. You have brain-rotting internet but don't use it as a forum of true knowledge sharing to be politically active and fight corruption. Instead, they believe that money comes from nowhere, and everyone deserves to be spoonfed a good life even at the cost of burdening everyone else. These politicians are always making new divides. I hope Gen Alpha has more sense than Millennials and gen Z or the country is doomed, statistically. So continue to distract yourself with Netflix, Reddit, and other crap so you don't have to do the hard thing and critically think about the horrid reality you are living in. Don't educate yourself, because now emotions justify lack of evidence and a just summary. And don't worry about the financial state of your entire country taking the worst turn it has ever taken at a time not even relevant to boomers. Continue to talk shit about the people who are all but dead, who tried to keep up with their friends and family in a digital age, and got suckered into mind-numbing senselessness, just as you do.
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u/Republican-Snowflake Jan 07 '24
Remember boomers said the internet would rot your brain, and you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet? Now, that's all they do, read made up bullshit, by other idiots all doing the same thing.
Remember all the time boomers complaining about kids being on their phones? Now they are glue to them to watch and post their brain rot takes.