• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      Look if you ever reach the point of muttering about “Kids these days” and it’s not about how they all suck at Counter Strike you are lost. Utterly lost. The spirit of humanity has died within you and is rotting. The kids will be fine. The kids have always been fine. There has never been a generation of The Kids in history that was truly weirder than their parents.

            • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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              2 months ago

              Material conditions or alternatively, were they ever that cool?

              I have a theory that for many people, the youth-leftist thing isn’t based in solidarity or whatever, it’s based in self-interest - across generations. Makes sense to be a socialist, when you’re poor, and all. As the survivors gain their riches, they get more conservative - they have property to “defend” now. They were always self-serving people, it’s just they were occasionally in a position where that meant to be vaguely left.

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                Makes sense to be a socialist, when you’re poor, and all. As the survivors gain their riches, they get more conservative - they have property to “defend” now. They were always self-serving people

                Yeah wouldn’t necessarily blame all this on people being ontologically “self-serving” from the beginning, thats liberal moralistic thinking. A shift towards cuckservativism its just an inevitable consequence of gaining wealth and property within a capitalist society. They weren’t born selfish, they became selfish after years of indoctrination and falling into a position that strongly incentivises it.