As a Millennial, I thought this was my generation... Then shit just kept getting worse and worse... Fun times.
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And all the people who fucked around, aren't gonna have to be the ones to find out. We are suffering generational neglect.
Is it so much generational neglect or "corporations hide their disastrous impact on the planet and society from the public for as long as they can, and after the effects become impossible to ignore they gaslight everyone blame the society as a whole to burdern them with their crimes" ?
They built and empowered those corporations.
"Fuck you I got mine" but over the generations.
I think there is a constant fractal looping of "fuck around - find out"
More like there are a few lucky people who think it's their right to fuck around, and that it's the duty of everyone else to find out.
Find out times create hard people. Hard people create fuck around times. Fuck around times create entitled people. Entitled people create find out times.
Think yourself lucky. I was born too late for the sexual revolution/hippies fucking everywhere, and just in time for the AIDS panic, where people didn't know enough about HIV, and it was this mysterious thing that would kill you if you dared have sex.
I was born during the NATO bombing of my country, and then had another when I was 4.
Literally born right after the country's best days were over, to find out for all the fuck around I never did.
I don't care about sex.
Ah yes, the 20th century, well known for not having serious problems...
Actually so far 2000 to 2026 is looking much better than 1900 to 1926.
I'm reserving my judgment until after 2038. But yes, everything looks much better this century.
2038, or 2028? If 2028 doesn’t go right, getting to 2038 is going to be rough.
if I could've been born just twenty years earlier, just long enough to have my childhood, adolescence and my early twenties during the fuck around period, I feel I would be at least moderately happier and possibly mildly more successful than I am now; having my earliest, strongest memory be the morning of 9/11.
I'm told the world sucked less prior, that the end of the 90s was an exciting and hopeful time to be alive and I have to take their word for it, as I was too young to remember much before the morning of the attacks. It would just be nice to have the memory of hope, too, instead of only the looming specter of the future. It would be also nice to maybe remember a part of history where we weren't having a once-in-a-lifetime economic dumpster fire every few years, but I've already given up on ever retiring, so I suppose that memory would merely make me more bitter.
Plus being born in 1977 would've meant getting to experience the golden years of video games firsthand, before selling a complete, bug-tested product started to be thought of as "optional". Or at least it wasn't nearly so egregious, they didn't have the capacity for microtransactions anyways. That would've been nice to experience more of, I only got the tail end of this.
I was 29 on 9/11. It has been a shit show since.
The hard part is watching everything that was pretty cool (not perfect, mind you) just fuck right on off. I'm certain there's a PTSD carried by most Gen X'rs that have watched the degradation one catastrophe at a time juxtaposed to the relatively peaceful upbringing we had.
Yeah I was a Junior in high school when it went down. The spark kind of went out over the next few years.
Sorry you had to deal with that at such a time. My two youngest were sophomore and senior during the COVID pandemic and I got to watch them navigate that scenario without having any wisdom to offer. Shitty hand to be dealt at what should be a positive and transformative moment in their lives.
Oldest sibling owns a house, I will die working while probably renting with roommates as my body fails me too much to do the employment that keeps me in solo housing. That gap of 12 years changed a lot...
Imagine having a dem president for 8 years without having the economy collapse right before.
Dems aren't perfect. The 90s weren't perfect. Wealth inequality was a problem then too. They could be significantly more progressive. I'd like to see us use our wealth and power for bigger things than the Dems have gone for since JFK.
But they're so much fucking better than the Republicans, even the old 1990s Republicans. So much better.
Do some reading on Clinton, especially his crime bill and what he did to welfare. He undid a lot of FDR's New Deal.
NAFTA was also pretty shit.
Oh trust me, we might be in the Find Out century, but it is also still the Fuck Around century.
the find out century is where new futures are forged, im at the bottom so i cant get any lower, im ready and waiting
You're nowhere near the bottom on a global scale.
an i don't intend to go lower.
Millennium, Find Out Millennium.
This the Willenium, and the rest of us are just living in it.
Twitter post from 1914.
I mean, a lot of people did Find Out in the 20th century. That is a significant thing that happened.