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I am so ready to move on from the boomer generation.
There are still stupid millenials and Gen Z. This isn't a problem with a lifespan.
There's something to be said for possible lead exposure of that generation and how it's affecting as they age. There were studies about it and apparently the newest one is showing that their exposure is increasing the risk of Alzheimer.
what about pathological behaviors.
There we go, found it. https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.2000.48.11.1501
Gen X grew up with daily exposure to the highest levels of lead in their environment. Boomers had the second highest. Their mothers smoked and drank while pregnant. These generations are more brain damaged than any before or since.
Only the oldest Millennials can even remember leaded gasoline, and it was off the market long before they learned to drive. Zeds are obnoxious, but they aren't wrong. The sooner they engage with politics, the better.
I mean ok, she's definitely an awful woman and shouldn't be doing this job, but judging an individual for their membership of a group that represents some statistical shift from the median is as close to textbook bigotry as you can get. You wouldn't tolerate someone suggesting that women shouldn't be allowed physical jobs because they're statistically weaker.
The only benefit to being Gen X is we were shut out by the Boomers maintaining their grip on everything for so long. Oh, don’t get me wrong. There’s plenty of Gen X idiots, too. We were the biggest trump voting group, for instance. (Seriously, my people? The anti-authoritarians whose anthems were Breakfast Club, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or even Total Recall? Hate the system, hate the Nazis, hate the rich corporate overlords?)
the only thing I'm genuinely looking forward to as I get older is watching every single boomer rot in the ground.
worst. generation. ever.
I'm ok with them just ceding power.
would be lovely. I've turned blue too many times holding my breath waiting for that to happen.
the only thing that will get these self-righteous pricks out of power is the sweet release of death.