We need a "boomer intervention" especially for those older folks...
Dave Greene@GreeneMan6
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Dec 02, 2024
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We need a "boomer intervention" especially for those older folks who call themselves "conservative'. Are there any Boomers in my audience willing to talk?
Ok, good, so listen up.
There is a problem here, guys. Every day I see you posting ridiculous opinions that almost no young person, not even the right-wing ones, believes. And those young guys aren't getting on your side over time.
What takes are those?
1. "We really have to get rid of identity politics and return to old-fashioned individualism!"
2. "I am all in favor of legal mass migration, as long as they assimilate!"
3. "We need more unquestioning support for Israel!"
4. "Those radical college students are sure crazy, I can't wait till they get scared straight by the REAL WORLD"
5. "Young men would do better with women if they just got off their heckin' phones and asked them out on dates politely!"
6. "Online isn't real life. If people just logged off we'd all get back to common sense!"
Finally, I could add any casual attitude you have about "common sense morals" that was not common before 1960.
These takes are WELL past their expiration date and will imminently be tossed in the trash bin of history within one generation. Why is that?
Because they all have super easy responses and refutations that immediately crumble their motivating logic, and are only sustained when insulated from more fundamental questions that have been removed from our mainstream since the middle of the century.
This doesn't mean that you have to change your fundamental values, far from it. But you have to avoid these cliches and dead ends if you want to be part of a meaningful conversation about the future, because most young people (the serious ones at least), have seen through this, and no one is going back to the way things used to be.
Ok, good, so listen up.
There is a problem here, guys. Every day I see you posting ridiculous opinions that almost no young person, not even the right-wing ones, believes. And those young guys aren't getting on your side over time.
What takes are those?
1. "We really have to get rid of identity politics and return to old-fashioned individualism!"
2. "I am all in favor of legal mass migration, as long as they assimilate!"
3. "We need more unquestioning support for Israel!"
4. "Those radical college students are sure crazy, I can't wait till they get scared straight by the REAL WORLD"
5. "Young men would do better with women if they just got off their heckin' phones and asked them out on dates politely!"
6. "Online isn't real life. If people just logged off we'd all get back to common sense!"
Finally, I could add any casual attitude you have about "common sense morals" that was not common before 1960.
These takes are WELL past their expiration date and will imminently be tossed in the trash bin of history within one generation. Why is that?
Because they all have super easy responses and refutations that immediately crumble their motivating logic, and are only sustained when insulated from more fundamental questions that have been removed from our mainstream since the middle of the century.
This doesn't mean that you have to change your fundamental values, far from it. But you have to avoid these cliches and dead ends if you want to be part of a meaningful conversation about the future, because most young people (the serious ones at least), have seen through this, and no one is going back to the way things used to be.
