Gen-X Attitudes And the Results

jayem said:

I'm a Boomer. But I don't blame your Gen-X cohorts for the uber-divisive ugliness of current American society. The lion's share of blame goes to the internet. Which can be a tremendous resource for learning. But it's also an unregulated cesspool of deceitful, inaccurate, misleading, prejudicial, and outright fabricated information. Lies abound in the cybersphere. I'm starting to think that the bad actors who create this mind-rot want us to be at each other's throat. Compromise becomes impossible. And all we're left with is discord, conflict, and hostility.

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Well sure, the more time we spend fighting amongst ourselves, the less time is given to realizing that the problem isn't working class liberals or working class conservatives, but the oligarchs who hold the actual power within the republic. It's why it doesn't matter which party has the majority in Congress, both parties bend the knee to the rich and powerful.

Our job as little people is simply to feed the machine and worry so much about whether we have a tomorrow to look forward to that we'll never be able to have the time, energy, or resources to act against power.

That's why there's a "culture war". To distract people from actual problems. We're supposed to be mad, sad, and afraid all the time because "those people over there" are a threat. Every major media corporation is run by billionaires, and thus they all have a vested interest in profiteering off public fear and anger to use as a distraction from the fact that most of us are barely able to cope with the hand we have been dealt, and that it's been deliberately designed to be this way.

-CryptoLutheran