You guys assume somehow that the boomer generation created itself.
They were the first ones who were bombarded beginning in the 1950s and then continuing in the 1960s with cultural marxism 24/7.
"Don't trust anyone above 30." was designed to make them distrust the previous generations.
All the rebel movies that Hollywood spat out in the 1950s with James Dean were designed to spit at the previous generations. Those movies were clever propaganda of making the "old guys" who fought in WWII and lived through the depression appear like capitalist squares.
Outright communism was beginning to be taught at universities and if you look back at the 60s and the 70s even there was a lot of actually marxist leaning in the US at least for certain parts of the country.
Generations only partly are shaped organically in our times. Most of it is done by the media, entertainment, current-day economic and political climate, wars and lack of wars. Fucault and other intellectual thinkers came into being back in the 1960s, there was also Vietnam with the boomers fighting that conflict - never forget that. Rambo was a boomer as well.
The advice that boomers give about college, rolling up your sleeves and going to work is based on the fact that they had it simply easier. In the 1960s a lowly unskilled steel mill workers could pay down a house in 10 years, pay for 2 cars, a non-working house wife and 2 kids. That began to change in the 1970s and was only ameliorated in the 80s due to an economic boom and the advent of credit cards and the necessity to women to start working to keep up with the same lifestyle.
Generation X came upon a totally different time that was rather directionless, but the indoctrination picked up a notch with the Millennial. Also Xers and Millennials each have deteriorating economic conditions (more immigration, less entry level and teenager-jobs, lower real disposable income, more competition, massive off-shoring, huge cost-ratio of education).
In the 1970s you could have most college degrees for almost nothing - tuitions were low for almost all except the elite schools. And college meant something.
Millennials in contrast are met with college that is more a leftist indoctrination gulag and one that lets you pay an arm and a leg.
Also in terms of economics - the unskilled steel worker from the 1960s made more money in tersm of real disposable income than a middle manager at most corporations in the 2010s. You just don't realize it as much as anyone is in debt through the eyeballs, both spouses are working, credit cards are readily available and loaded up and the mortgage runs 30 years instead of the 10 years that was common in the 60s and even 70s.
The boomers don't know better.
The Xes don't know better.
The Millennials don't know better.
And the Zs might know better, but they haven't hit college yet - most of them - so we don't know how bad those fuckers will turn out.
To break free from all of that would have meant that you have access to knowledge in order to see it as propaganda and see beyond it - also understand the underlying forces trying to shape your mind and accept the changing nature of the environment. Advice form the 1960s would not have helped you in the 80s, 90s and certainly not 2010s. And the climate is changing ever faster.
The indoctrination continues unabated in this late stage of Rome.
They were the first ones who were bombarded beginning in the 1950s and then continuing in the 1960s with cultural marxism 24/7.
"Don't trust anyone above 30." was designed to make them distrust the previous generations.
All the rebel movies that Hollywood spat out in the 1950s with James Dean were designed to spit at the previous generations. Those movies were clever propaganda of making the "old guys" who fought in WWII and lived through the depression appear like capitalist squares.
Outright communism was beginning to be taught at universities and if you look back at the 60s and the 70s even there was a lot of actually marxist leaning in the US at least for certain parts of the country.
Generations only partly are shaped organically in our times. Most of it is done by the media, entertainment, current-day economic and political climate, wars and lack of wars. Fucault and other intellectual thinkers came into being back in the 1960s, there was also Vietnam with the boomers fighting that conflict - never forget that. Rambo was a boomer as well.
The advice that boomers give about college, rolling up your sleeves and going to work is based on the fact that they had it simply easier. In the 1960s a lowly unskilled steel mill workers could pay down a house in 10 years, pay for 2 cars, a non-working house wife and 2 kids. That began to change in the 1970s and was only ameliorated in the 80s due to an economic boom and the advent of credit cards and the necessity to women to start working to keep up with the same lifestyle.
Generation X came upon a totally different time that was rather directionless, but the indoctrination picked up a notch with the Millennial. Also Xers and Millennials each have deteriorating economic conditions (more immigration, less entry level and teenager-jobs, lower real disposable income, more competition, massive off-shoring, huge cost-ratio of education).
In the 1970s you could have most college degrees for almost nothing - tuitions were low for almost all except the elite schools. And college meant something.
Millennials in contrast are met with college that is more a leftist indoctrination gulag and one that lets you pay an arm and a leg.
Also in terms of economics - the unskilled steel worker from the 1960s made more money in tersm of real disposable income than a middle manager at most corporations in the 2010s. You just don't realize it as much as anyone is in debt through the eyeballs, both spouses are working, credit cards are readily available and loaded up and the mortgage runs 30 years instead of the 10 years that was common in the 60s and even 70s.
The boomers don't know better.
The Xes don't know better.
The Millennials don't know better.
And the Zs might know better, but they haven't hit college yet - most of them - so we don't know how bad those fuckers will turn out.
To break free from all of that would have meant that you have access to knowledge in order to see it as propaganda and see beyond it - also understand the underlying forces trying to shape your mind and accept the changing nature of the environment. Advice form the 1960s would not have helped you in the 80s, 90s and certainly not 2010s. And the climate is changing ever faster.
The indoctrination continues unabated in this late stage of Rome.