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How did society fucked up so much. We were more and more progressive, working toward equality, and kids these days as a reaction are turning into sexists/racists biggot.
The left, including the moderate one, has seriously fucked up to bring us there.
This is a wild guess, but my money is on social media
I'm not sure I agree with this theory, but you might find it interesting. The idea is that there's periods of something like 10 to 40 years where things swing liberal, then conservative, then back to liberal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclical_theory
United States cycles
These are cycles first identified in the United States or are specific to United States politics.
Schlesingers' liberal-conservative cycle
Historians Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and others have proposed that the United States has an alternation of national moods and tendencies between liberalism and conservatism.[2][3] Each phase has characteristic features, and each phase is self-limiting, eventually generating the other phase. This alternation has repeated itself several times over the history of the United States.
The Schlesingers proposed that their cycles are "self-generating", meaning that each kind of phase generates the other kind of phase. This process then repeats, causing cycles. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. speculated on possible reasons for these transitions. He speculated that since liberal phases involve bursts of reform effort, such bursts can be exhausting, and the body politic thus needs the rest of a conservative phase. He also speculated that conservative phases accumulate unsolved social problems, problems that require the efforts of a liberal phase to solve them. He additionally speculated on generational effects, since most of the liberal-conservative phase pairs are roughly 30 years long, roughly the length of a human generation. The Schlesingers' identified phases end in a conservative period. In a foreword written in 1999, Schlesinger Jr. speculated about why it has lasted unusually long, instead of ending in the early 1990s, from how long previous conservative periods typically lasted. One of his speculations was the continuing Computer Revolution, as disruptive as the earlier Industrial Revolution had been. Another of them was wanting a long rest after major national traumas. The 1860s Civil War and Reconstruction preceded the unusually-long Gilded Age, and the strife of the 1960s likewise preceded the recent unusually-long conservative period.[3]
Absolutely stupid to use "baby boomer" in the concept of global anything...
It means nothing outside of America, because no one else experienced not only the post WW2 baby boom, but more importantly the economic boom America got from being the only intact western super power after the war.
I just how the entire concept of generations have become so twisted it's almost an instant write-off when someone brings them up.
The use of generational demonyms annoys me, too, because it's such a broad brush that has only become broader with time. In reality baby boomers should probably only refer to people born in the US in the immediate aftermath of WWII, but practically it includes people born well into the '60s.
A 20-year span is too long for meaningful grouping; a 40-year-old in the same "generation" as a 20-year-old is crazy.
because it’s such a broad brush that has only become broader with time.
The real problem is boomers are trying to force their personal brush when every other generation had their own...
Silent was 17 years.
Boomers were 18 years
But their lines were drawn based on localized trends.
After that they just started making it every 15 years no matter what. Standardizing it broke the system. Modern generations should be divided by tech. The kids who grew up before computers, Oregano Trail generation that did, then smartphone/social media kids, then tablet babies.
That would make generations meaningful again. Right now we might as well just be talking birth years, because that's all they've meant for 60 years.
one else experienced not only the post WW2 baby boom
You miss a huge part of Europe were men were conscript, then prisonner of war sometimes up tothe early 50's.
Baby boom was a thing in many countries involved in WW2. And unlike American boomer, there is a big probability that boomer have been raised by Nazi, the one who weren't didn't live long enough to have kids
“People of both genders in Indonesia (66%) and Malaysia (60%) were most likely to agree with the statement, compared with 23% in the US and 13% in Great Britain.”