Right, climate change, the thing that boomers caused and definitely not these huge corporations perpetuating a system making humanity dependent on fossil fuels. It was a generation defined by generally common experiences and not some dickheads on the boards of fossil fuel corporations covering up and then spinning up a disinformation campaign against the overwhelming evidence of anthropogenic climate change. No war but class war; know your enemy.
It's funny because the next generation conservatives have found hate against boomers to be a great populistic weapon to collect voters in some countries.
People who seriously buy into this generational thing (as if the 70's wasn't full of political activism, hippies etc) are as dense as the thing they blame for all their problems (the all-round bad boomer generation in their head in this case). Which really is the exact thing observable in both conservatives and right-wingers. Blaming a completely warped idea of some social group for everything, including the things they themselves are actively doing.
It really is just simplistic bullshit that seems to trip them up, isn't it? As a passionate lover of philosophy, I've come to a pretty good understanding of the sheer magnitude of what it takes to be considered an "expert" in any subject. And, hoo boy, my radical commitment to what is true has only served to illustrate to myself how much I lack in understanding... pretty much anything. I'm not one of those jackholes who do that smarmy-ass "I know nothing", so I'll admit that I understand a hell of a lot more than the average person in political theory and general pragmatic governance. So it's both infuriating and baffling to me how often the average 'right-winger' decisively demonstrates how little they understand any political subject they have no business holding such a strong and certain opinion on. And really, that also applies for most people willing to talk politics in America. Like, how the fuck are people's opinions so fucking strong for how shallow their position is???
Right, climate change, the thing that boomers caused and definitely not these huge corporations perpetuating a system making humanity dependent on fossil fuels. It was a generation defined by generally common experiences and not some dickheads on the boards of fossil fuel corporations covering up and then spinning up a disinformation campaign against the overwhelming evidence of anthropogenic climate change. No war but class war; know your enemy.
It's funny because the next generation conservatives have found hate against boomers to be a great populistic weapon to collect voters in some countries.
People who seriously buy into this generational thing (as if the 70's wasn't full of political activism, hippies etc) are as dense as the thing they blame for all their problems (the all-round bad boomer generation in their head in this case). Which really is the exact thing observable in both conservatives and right-wingers. Blaming a completely warped idea of some social group for everything, including the things they themselves are actively doing.
It really is just simplistic bullshit that seems to trip them up, isn't it? As a passionate lover of philosophy, I've come to a pretty good understanding of the sheer magnitude of what it takes to be considered an "expert" in any subject. And, hoo boy, my radical commitment to what is true has only served to illustrate to myself how much I lack in understanding... pretty much anything. I'm not one of those jackholes who do that smarmy-ass "I know nothing", so I'll admit that I understand a hell of a lot more than the average person in political theory and general pragmatic governance. So it's both infuriating and baffling to me how often the average 'right-winger' decisively demonstrates how little they understand any political subject they have no business holding such a strong and certain opinion on. And really, that also applies for most people willing to talk politics in America. Like, how the fuck are people's opinions so fucking strong for how shallow their position is???