I don’t know why anti communists always imply that we are going to be less empathetic when we grow older. I wonder if it is just projection from them. Also, happy cake day!
It has more to do with acquiring a stake in the neoliberal status quo. Those who say life makes you more conservative are almost always older white people who stand to personally lose if their privilege goes away.
A worker who spends 40 years throwing their retirement into the stock market (401k) will be less willing to throw that away for a better future for the next generation. Earlier in their career, they may have been more willing to challenge the status quo and their own ideas because they had less to lose.
The bourgeoisie has a strategic interest in keeping western workers in a petty-bourgeois or labor-aristocratic mindset.
society’s values tend to progress faster than individuals. when a conservative boomer says were “progressive” in their youth, probably all that took was not actively cheering for gay people dying of AIDs. most people’s politics stay the same or even shift somewhat left in certain ways as they age
I was always told I’d become less liberal.
To be fair, I guess I did. 🇨🇳 🫡
I don’t know why anti communists always imply that we are going to be less empathetic when we grow older. I wonder if it is just projection from them. Also, happy cake day!
It has more to do with acquiring a stake in the neoliberal status quo. Those who say life makes you more conservative are almost always older white people who stand to personally lose if their privilege goes away.
A worker who spends 40 years throwing their retirement into the stock market (401k) will be less willing to throw that away for a better future for the next generation. Earlier in their career, they may have been more willing to challenge the status quo and their own ideas because they had less to lose.
The bourgeoisie has a strategic interest in keeping western workers in a petty-bourgeois or labor-aristocratic mindset.
society’s values tend to progress faster than individuals. when a conservative boomer says were “progressive” in their youth, probably all that took was not actively cheering for gay people dying of AIDs. most people’s politics stay the same or even shift somewhat left in certain ways as they age
They grew up with lead pipes. They literally did become less empathetic. Who knows what the remaining lead and the microplastic will do to us.
I’m trans and pretty open to the suspicion that endocrine disruptors in the womb may be the reason for my trans-ness.
Or maybe it just causes me to have acne. Who knows!