sneering distrust of unions
sneering distrust of science
sneering distrust of socialism
sneering distrust of wikipedia
I'd say their sneering distrust of everything has brought us to where we are now.
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Nihilism isn't witty or crafty.
South Park is a real grabbag, but they really hit the mark with Gen X yankees dismissing green energy and environmentalism for being "gay (pejorative)". You could update that same episode and only need to swap out the last line for "that sounds woke"
You can trust unions. They're there to make money and acting in your interest is acting in their best interest.
While you can trust science overall, there's a hell of a lot of capitalism in there, muddying the water. Well-reviewed studies are generally pretty safe.
There is nothing inherently trustworthy or untrustworthy about socialism; it's an economic and political philosophy that is only as trustworthy as the people implementing and operating within it.
You cannot trust anything on the internet, including Wikipedia or even this very post. There are actors with an agenda that can make every article better or worse. There is no verifiable truth, only facts through lenses, and Wiki, being a moderated system, is as fallible as anything else. Much like socialism, it is at least designed to make it more fair.
Jfc how are people still talking about generations?
Exasperation, not a genuine question ^
Because it is an effective distraction from the actual problem which is class war.
Billionaires and their followers are the problem, not people of a certain age, gender, skin colour etc. etc.
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Well, corporations created generational division to blame what corporations were doing.
Corporations created anti-union sentiment for obvious reasons.
As evidenced by articles about the worst people in the world lamenting that those young poors aren't buying enough diamonds, are ruining the economy, killing the golf industry, ruining handshakes, andmuch, much more.
Very seldomly do they mention that millennials are the first or second generation to be significantly poorer than the previous one, meaning that we can ill afford what previous generations took for granted.
Also, a lot of the things we're "killing" are arguably in NEED of killing, such as the cartel-dominated diamond industry, environmentally ruinous and dreadfully expensive sports such as golf, and truly bizarre things like so-called diet products high in sugar and low in protein
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Before the Internet it was a bigger deal bc culture was different but yeah basically just a distraction
People like to have identities tho and like for this person maybe being GenX means something. Like distrust of systems
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No. And it may have contributed to the anti science and anti vaccine shit that has been floatung around. Just being a contrarian isnt helpful
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Lots of genX Trump voters for a generation that identifies with "sneering distrust of everything". Or are we talking about Q-Anon-style "sneering distrust of everything (except this totally believable source that conveniently aligns with the far right)"?
Look up some exit polls/surveys, e.g. this one: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election/
According to this, people born in the 60s (late boomers/early gen X) was the age cohort most likely to vote for Trump, and people born in the 70s and 80s still preferred Trump.
Though age cohort wasn't nearly as good as predicting the voting decision than other markers like urban/rural, black/non-black or atheist/christian.
It's strange because the vast majority of my GenX in all my circles are super left. But I'm a suburban guy with most of my acquaintances in high literacy areas.
Once you get outside of the suburbs, things change. I could see gen-X going full conspiracy theorist, then double-thinking as propaganda feeds them ideas.
This would make sense if they didn't vote for the people promising to fuck it up worse. (US politics only, I don't know how generational breakdown goes in other countries)
Many disengaged and didn't build anything to replace what was missing
Gen X contrarianism is some stupid boomer shit. Its no wonder so many of them are divorced maga conspiracy morons now.
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Cynicism, nihilism and distancing oneself from everything is not going to build anything good or allow others to succeed.
So no, not correct, not good, just a terrible mindset that will drag everyone down with you.
I thought we were known for apathy since we were constantly told growing up that our generation was the first for whom things would be worse than our parents. I don't have a sneering distrust of everything, just cynicism towards massive, systemic injustice in the world.
That's called a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Gen X turned out to be more right wing than boomers, perpetuating the bullshit you all distrust.
I'm elder millennial and remember when gasoline switched from leaded to unleaded. I think GenX got exposed to the historical maximum of leaded gas fumes (in the US)
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What a dumpster fire of a comment section this is. I wouldn't even know where to begin.
Anyways. It all goes show how counter culture anti-establishmentarianism has been co-opted and usurped by conservatives. This is by design to destroy the field of play.
It wasn't a gen-x thing. This generational thing is a new invention and a weapon used to divide us. They put us in a ring and threw that knife in the circle, leaving us to fight to the death.
I know you smartypants are already typing out the, "hurr hurr generational strife has always been a thing". Just stop.
The era of counter culture had its last hurrah around the time of Occupy. After which the world memory-holed it and entered the era of whatever the fuck this is right now. People too young for that era don't have the lived experience to comprehend a totally different frame of mind that isn't the way it's been now. It's only when they experience a massive world shift that they might possibly conceptualize such a thing. People who do have lived experience of the before times have largely forgotten.
This whole comment section is self evident. You're applying the lens of the current zeitgeist over a different one and it amounts to little more than incoherent ramblings.
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I don't even understand this one. It's this a thing for Gen x? I feel like Gen x is more known for complacency.
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No. You guys need to take charge. You are in your 40s. Fuck you for not taking the reins.
I think they're all at least fifty by now. I'm in the middle of the millennial years and I'm pushing 40.
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Self-fulfilling prophecy?
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