If you’re just axiomatically committed to bullshit, there’s nothing I can do about that, but I’m a young person and, uh, no, zoomers aren’t special. They’ve got just the latest iteration on time-honored brainworms, and the disparities between them and their elders can be explained by difference in social position, both the traditional “young people are poorer and less institutionally entrenched” bit plus the more unique problem of median downward mobility, but that pushes radicalization both ways and it doesn’t push them evenly in an uneven environment. Going just by the odds, what stands out about Gen Z is that they are the most likely generation in the last several decades to be at the helm of a successful fascist uprising, which is much more likely than them doing socialist revolution (though them just finding some new way to be neo-neoliberals is still more likely than a socialist revolution in the US).
I’m on a communist board, it’s not like I don’t want the Zoomer Vanguard of Marxist revolutionaries to be a real thing – and I aspire to help instigate it – but hope and love are not enough to make it so, and we cannot hope to contribute to making the world better without a solid understanding of how the world can [and may] be worse.
You have an agenda and you’re angry about it. I frankly stopped reading your responses about three back. Why not devote your efforts to someone who is interested and take a persuasive instead of hostile tone?
And 50 years ago nobody outside of the Arab world cared. That’s the change — people care now.
The wh8tewashed historical impression you are operating off of is incorrect:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_3379
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No comment in the substance? Just going to keep on hoping we can age into a just world?
You’re underselling today’s youth. We’re all dinosaurs and they see the world in a completely different light.
If you’re just axiomatically committed to bullshit, there’s nothing I can do about that, but I’m a young person and, uh, no, zoomers aren’t special. They’ve got just the latest iteration on time-honored brainworms, and the disparities between them and their elders can be explained by difference in social position, both the traditional “young people are poorer and less institutionally entrenched” bit plus the more unique problem of median downward mobility, but that pushes radicalization both ways and it doesn’t push them evenly in an uneven environment. Going just by the odds, what stands out about Gen Z is that they are the most likely generation in the last several decades to be at the helm of a successful fascist uprising, which is much more likely than them doing socialist revolution (though them just finding some new way to be neo-neoliberals is still more likely than a socialist revolution in the US).
I’m on a communist board, it’s not like I don’t want the Zoomer Vanguard of Marxist revolutionaries to be a real thing – and I aspire to help instigate it – but hope and love are not enough to make it so, and we cannot hope to contribute to making the world better without a solid understanding of how the world can [and may] be worse.
You have an agenda and you’re angry about it. I frankly stopped reading your responses about three back. Why not devote your efforts to someone who is interested and take a persuasive instead of hostile tone?
What is my agenda that it would slant me against your thesis?
You’re being tedious. /out