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84 sats \ 6 replies \ @didiplaywell 16 Nov \ on: Does the older generation always think the subsequent generations are soft? FiresidePhilosophy
It's not a line but a cycle: hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times.
Here in Argentina the younger generations see the previous ones, their fathers specially (our boomers), as weak and naive. And they are right. In today's political arena the teenagers are the sharpest, and boomers are helpless.
this is quite interesting because in the West, the boomers feel like the smartest and best generation ever because they have all this money and wealth built up. like, how can I not be smart, look at all this wealth i have from hard work, and look at this 20-something living with people in a house.
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Here the boomers feel the exact same, except that their special cocktail of not having a clue on economic and political affairs, thus being solely responsible of the current economic and political distress, and on top of that, vehemently rejecting and ridiculing the one guy that came to fix it (Milei), made them a laughing stock for the youth. The teenagers are solely responsible for our current comeback from never-ending decadence. You have this kids explaining their fathers how reality works. It's to be recognized that, besides the blind pride of our boomers, which almost causes Milei to lose last year, most at least have a reluctant but noble inclination to hear their sons. Had this happened in previous generations, Milei would not exist for teens were culturally forbidden to raise up an opinion to their fathers.
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presumably the boomers are also getting some of the state benefits etc, pensions and whatnot that make them also want a continuation of the status quo, even if it's shit
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It's quite divided here:
- There's an army of millions of state parasites who "work" for the state (all of them being progressively severed by Milei right now), who are in all aspects and senses a modern nobility, for the state grants them special economical and legal privileges. Those are the ones which hold a status quo, but are not a majority.
- There's a 10x bigger (hard numbers, 20 million indigents) army of parasites who live entirely out of pensions and state benefits, but dwell in cluttered slums. The trick there is to have them always on the edge, so that even if they despise socialism, they have to vote for it just to not to die from hunger.
- Then there's the other half of the population who works entirely just to keep the two groups above, but are so indoctrinated into socialism that despite of being humiliated and exploited by it (no wealth, no status quo), still will vote for it because is the only thing they can understand. When something is "private", is "evil", when something belongs to the state, is "holy". And all failures and shortcomings are due to the evil imperialist countries who permanently boycott the country to make socialism fail.
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it seems very ingrained across society, Milei warned the UK we could end up in a similar trap and i think he might be right.
still, must be quite satisfying to watch him chainsaw the shit out of the parasites
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i think he might be right
Oh, he is. I can tell you.
must be quite satisfying to watch him chainsaw the shit out of the parasites
Orgasmic, that's the word. It feels orgasmic.
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