True Boomer Monolithicism on display.
WE had the best music
WE had drive-ins
WE had Happy Days
Anyone who didn't like them wasn't one of US
But yeah, it was the damn hivemind commies who were the problem
fastest cars
You can buy a mid level sedan with a turbo today that will blow the doors off of most cars from that era. I mean we have cars today with 1500+ horsepower with zero modifications.
I don't disagree with your first part but 1,500 stock HP?? Even Tesla, known for making up numbers, says that the S Plaid makes 1,020hp.
People from the 50 usually could earn actually money that they could save and now buy new cars
People nowadays definitely earn that kind of money, they just don't get it.
This is the mentality of older boomers you didn't go through the war or the 50s you were a baby. You literally rode the 60s-90s boom train . Remember one telling me rose tinted stories about rationing dude was 50 it ended like 20 years before he was born
I think most of that is true, (born in 1959 myself), but I'm not remembering them being such happy days. Maybe less well informed days would be a better way to put it; before we had instant news of every bad thing happening, we lived in a kind of blissful ignorance.
Everyone on earth is racist, make no mistake. It's hardwired into our brains to see other certain groups of people as lesser or less deserving. Maybe it's a holdover from primitive times, we're not that far out from having been cave-people, maybe being tribal was a way of protecting ourselves. At any rate, everyone has some racism and/or phobia about others inside themselves.
The thing that's "hardwired" is tribalism.
A modern tribe is a class, or race, or people from a certain country, or even fans of a different sports team.... It's far more complex now. Each of these tribes are seen differently by each person, both within the "tribe" and external to the tribe. Eg, an American sees other Americans differently than a European sees Americans. Different clarifications and qualifiers are put on who is "in" the tribe and who isn't. Where one individual may see "Americans" as anyone with a valid American citizenship, and another may see it as "only God fearing white Christians living in America are really Americans".... Kind of thing.
Personally, I see all peoples of all races and nationalities, who live on earth as part of the tribe of humans. I am a part of that tribe and all other tribal tenancies or definitions are irrelevant for me. So I'm not excluding someone because of what they believe, how much they make, or what their heritage might be.
In the before times, tribal mentalities were very useful, ensuring your tribe and your family survive. If that means taking all you can from another tribe, then that is what needs to happen. The tribe is of paramount importance. Even if you are killed, the tribe will help raise your offspring and the survival of your genetics is ensured.
It was a very greedy and selfish mindset which was required to ensure survival back then.
In the modern era, tribalism only creates division among the population. Whether this takes form as racism or nationalism or a religious crusade, it's no longer required and only sews dissonance between you and your neighbors.
You have a choice to make over who is "in" your tribe and who isn't. I would argue that drawing that line based on race is possibly one of the worst ways to choose your tribe. We no longer need to fight over resources to survive. We do not need to divide ourselves over these petty things.
Maybe less well informed days would be a better way to put it; before we had instant news of every bad thing happening, we lived in a kind of blissful ignorance.
Wasn't uncensored violent footage of, for instance, the Vietnam War or civil rights conflicts readily broadcast on national news in the 60s? This was always my impression of the previous era as someone who graduated high school in the relatively sanitized 90s.
Racism might be hard wired into your brain, but it’s certainly not in mine. What an utterly stupid thing to say .
I don't think anyone is above implicit/unconscious bias. We are all at least a little bit prejudice subconsciously, and it helps to be aware of it, so that you don't accidentally treat others differently.
Implicit bias can turn into racist actions, if not kept in check.
It's literally engrained into your DNA but go off I guess.
Racism is a part of "outsiders bad" which is bred into us because well, outsiders were bad. There was almost nothing more dangerous than running into an outside group.
They might be friendly! They might share knowledge or food or resources! But more likely they'll either kill you because you're competition/not in the group/their god says your unclean.
Racism is just the magnified effect of this well documented behavior.
A stupid thing is dismissing new information without considering it because of your own prejudices, you've just proven what I was saying, everyone has racism or phobia (and you certainly do).
We still got drive-ins. Got a footjob at one once.
Ewwww. Dude those feet could have touched the food! Who knows where that food has been?!
I'll stick to my footjobs in a more healthy establishment like that dumpster behind the waffle house.
Truly the pinnacle of human experience.
...and ignorant, and stupid, and moronic, and selfish, and rude, and entitled, and...
🎵 With Brains Full of Lead 🎶
If you were born in the 50's you had rock and roll, acid rock, heavy metal, disco, synthwave, house, grunge, and rap.
Not a bad claim to the best music. They only missed classical, jazz and big band. Weird Al was born in the 50's. If you think Weird Al doesn't have the best music then I say to you, "Good day, sir!"
born in the '50s*
*millennia
7 decades
Not that old yet
🤔
1999ers have a good chance to see 3 centuries and 2 millenia, dats even cooler :)
Are they aware Happy Days wasn’t a documentary?
I don't even understand this shit. People born in the 50s came of age in the 60s and the 70s. When they say they had happy days, they literally mean they watched it on TV.
WHAT! The Fonz wasn't real? That's crazy talk. You must be one of those Cosby people or Italian.
Fastest cars, yet can't do 35 in a 40 zone..
Or my personal blood boiler: doing 50 in a 60 zone. Drops to a 40 zone, they continue to do 50
But it evens out!!!
Needs more fax machine artefacts for that authentic boomer-meme look.
8 decades, now.
You're missing quite a lot of words that end in phobic at the end there.
Meanwhile in todays day have consumer cars that burn as much fuel as a semi, large 4x4 child pedestrian killers driven by soccer moms, Proud boys aren’t that old and they are pretty racist and active, School shootings, ‘anxious’ gun nuts shooting little girls on their lawns and clowns running countries into a 3rd world state during pandemics and giving bailouts to capitalist billionaires who are of a millennial age which are the entire cause of the housing crisis while there should be more than enough living space. There shouldn’t even be homeless right now.
Complain all you want about boomers but all the newer generations came in hot on the heels to make it far worse than any boomer did. They poured gallons of gasoline on that fire.
Fuck off with this ‘Z VS Boomer’ crap especially if you’re sitting here calling their music the best and listening to it.
Government is controlled by boomers. Blame should be placed on those who refuse to close loopholes and end bad laws, not those who abuse said loopholes.
Manipulators should absolutely hold the blame of their own actions. if you don’t like what boomers did, you can’t copy them and pretend you’re 100% innocent. That’s becoming the monster you hate and being manipulative to shift the blame off yourself. You are your own job. And if you have the chance to do better but still don’t, then you are pushing shitty double standards. That’s not reasonable. That’s being a bad actor. if you know better then do better. If you have the time to criticize, you have the time to help.
Pigeonholing / steoreotyping people according to an aspect over which they have zero control? Yeah that does sound vaguely unfriendly - just a bit!
Even better. Doing that to accuse people of pigeonholing/stereotyping people according to an aspect they have zero control.
Upvoting. Or, accusing people of accusing people of pigeonholing/stereotyping people according to an aspect they have zero control!
If it wasn't a shitpost it would've been illegal in many countries
Just wait'll the fascists take control in the next election, and it may become so here! (this statement works regardless of country or year or even party affiliation, unfortunately, but people are people)
But hey, at least they had the choice in becoming racist.
(not all of them are, I know)
(Wow a lot of downvoters here but fwiw I at least upvoted you.)
You bring up a FASCINATING tangent: is there a minimum level of agency required for someone to be "wrong"? Like if ChatGPT were to say something that represent racist trolling language, is it racist, or is it merely incorrectly trained? (and if it is a racist troll, then why is it not banned entirely from places like Reddit, Facebook, Tumblr, Threads, X, and the Fediverse? humans that do precisely that have that happen to them - why is it treated with "kid gloves"?)
Moreover, if someone steps up to become a leader, do we hold them to a higher standard? e.g. even though Trump can barely pass a test to determine if he is mentally incapable, do we hold his actions (such as assassination, invasion of another country like Russia is doing, etc.) against him? Do these standards vary according to the level of leadership, e.g. what if someone is not running to be a President, but they do vote to remove access to medical care for pregnant mothers - does the person bear any responsibility whatsoever for their actions in that case, if they "merely voted", the way that their cough cough evangelical christian cough pastors told them to?
Another source of bias is a personal relationship - is someone wrong, or conversely not wrong, even if they are your mother or father?
I think the Western world is under attack, and we have some difficult decisions ahead of us. People people are literally dying, and we are in this trolly staring at the lever. Whatever the attacker does is on them, but whatever we do in response is on us. imho. But if I say that, then isn't it likewise on them, those people who vote in the other way than I think is correct?
