• InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I’m not far behind you, I don’t think the younger generation are crazy at all.

    When we were young we wanted shit the Olds considered mad, it was actually worse during the cold War, there were things you couldn’t talk about.

    Boomers were epic assholes though, and dumb as fuck, so maybe that biases me, the Youngs just seem adorable in their unbelievable passion for shit that vague barely seems to matter. Everybody needs a hobby.

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      3 days ago

      that part was meant as a joke about old farts always saying the next generation is worse than their own.

      Tbh, no single generation is free of assholes, nor is any free of good people. That’s because people are assholes for the most part, and every generation has people that aren’t :)

      But, yeah, the amount of energy pumped into very niche things seems to be unusually high for kids currently. It never ceases to make me happy though.

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        3 days ago

        They’re welcome to it, they deserve some passion in life.

        I remember caring like hell about the earth, even trying to do things, that was considered about as threatening as the trans movement is to the same people now.

        I fucking love millenials, they were so perfectly curious and interested, they learned things. There might have been millennial assholes, but I respected them because they seemed to be assholes because they cared and were idealistic, which is a perfectly reasonable way to be an asshole to me.

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          3 days ago

          I feel the hell out of that.

          It’s part of why I married a millennial lol. Which sounds like an old school b movie. The horror! “I MARRIED A MILLENNIAL AND BARELY ESCAPED WITH MY SOUL!”

          But yeah, that extra sense of caring, that seems to keep going up, even with all the anxiety and uncertainty the younger set has. They aren’t afraid to help people, to reach out. Not saying everyone, but it’s a lot different than when I was a kid, or a teen, or a young man.

          It gives me hope, despite being a cynical old fart.

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            3 days ago

            They genuinely don’t belong in the world we were born in, they … are too fucking human.

            We had to fight, for what came so noturally to them, makes my heart weep;