The irony being that the boomers who say the "builds character" shit had a vastly easier life compared to their parents and grandparents, who fought literal world wars. They think all societal change before them was good (including stuff like colonialism which they see as "civilizing" the savage natives) but any progress after them is the devil because it means they might have to change their behaviour or worldviews, hell, or even the idea that people they think are less than them getting less disadvantaged and oppressed than before which I guess make them jealous or something?

[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i think their entitlement largely comes from the fact that they were one of the few generation who actually had very prosperous lifes (things getting better after the war but still no shitty wages we see today) so obviously (to them) they must have done something right. And that's why they try to share their great way of life (and doing things the right way) with everyone else, so everyone else can live a prosperous life too.

Problem is, their life wasn't good because of what they did. It was good because they met exceptional circumstances in the world's development where there was a lot of growth and innovation that actually improved people's lifes. they just happened to live through it; it's not their personal achievement.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Boomers are the generation that acts like they walked on the moon because they watched people from better generations do so on tv.