When you said everyone over-indexes on the state affairs during their youth, I immediately remembered how spun up my dad gets when I watch Vietnam War documentaries. There was a PBS one with a clip of some antiwar activists during Nixon's first year, and my dad wags his finger and says, "I hated them then, and I hate them now." I then replied, "So you're saying when I'm 70 and see a clip of BLM, I'm going to be fuming?"
On another occasion when there was a segment on the Cambodia campaign and the Kent State incident he started going off remarking, "That hurt the administration worse than the invasion," and when it got to the fall of Saigon he popped off, "We stabbed the Vietnamese in the back. Congress and the media were the worst enemies we had in that war."
The issues I'll probably always have some emotional investment in are covid, BLM, and Trump.
I still sort of see him as the guy from 2016 but everyone is basically treating him like Reagan at this point... younger Zoomers and esp Alphas will come of age swimming in these waters and think we're being retarded boomers bc they won't remember the Before Times
My dad said the big events in his early adulthood were Watergate and the fall of Saigon, and I never understood his Reaganphilia when I was growing up. Now I realize that Reagan basically felt like the antidote to the national humiliation witnessed during my dad's early adulthood as made evident in those events.
Similar to me with Reagan, alphas won't have any conception of the system of which Trump is a total repudiation.
There will come a certain point when we sound like complete cooks to the youth. My grandpa's house is filled with canned goods because he survived the Korean War. When Putin visited Pyongyang he started saying there's going to be another war in Korea and that the world's ending
'Walt and John have both tried to ask out random girls on the bus'
Correction, I meant I'd done that for girls in an educational institution I was attending (sixth form college, junior and senior years), but not specifically on the bus. We're all a lot closer together over here so we don't really have school buses.
When you said everyone over-indexes on the state affairs during their youth, I immediately remembered how spun up my dad gets when I watch Vietnam War documentaries. There was a PBS one with a clip of some antiwar activists during Nixon's first year, and my dad wags his finger and says, "I hated them then, and I hate them now." I then replied, "So you're saying when I'm 70 and see a clip of BLM, I'm going to be fuming?"
On another occasion when there was a segment on the Cambodia campaign and the Kent State incident he started going off remarking, "That hurt the administration worse than the invasion," and when it got to the fall of Saigon he popped off, "We stabbed the Vietnamese in the back. Congress and the media were the worst enemies we had in that war."
The issues I'll probably always have some emotional investment in are covid, BLM, and Trump.
man I am already feeling this hard with Trump
I still sort of see him as the guy from 2016 but everyone is basically treating him like Reagan at this point... younger Zoomers and esp Alphas will come of age swimming in these waters and think we're being retarded boomers bc they won't remember the Before Times
My dad said the big events in his early adulthood were Watergate and the fall of Saigon, and I never understood his Reaganphilia when I was growing up. Now I realize that Reagan basically felt like the antidote to the national humiliation witnessed during my dad's early adulthood as made evident in those events.
Similar to me with Reagan, alphas won't have any conception of the system of which Trump is a total repudiation.
There will come a certain point when we sound like complete cooks to the youth. My grandpa's house is filled with canned goods because he survived the Korean War. When Putin visited Pyongyang he started saying there's going to be another war in Korea and that the world's ending
'Walt and John have both tried to ask out random girls on the bus'
Correction, I meant I'd done that for girls in an educational institution I was attending (sixth form college, junior and senior years), but not specifically on the bus. We're all a lot closer together over here so we don't really have school buses.