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My particular brand of weirdness is Gen X specific. Xenial if we're being particular. I feel like I was influenced by the sort of counter-culture boomer mentality that looked at life like "Humans can be awful. They can be funny. They can contradict themselves easily. Take it in." Abstract ideas don't offend me a lot. They are either right, funny, or repugnant, and I don't get hung up too mich on the latter, because repugnant ideas marginalize themselves.
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Rich Nost 1y ago

I think later generations are much more alarmist about repugnant ideas. Like, what if people actually BELIEVED something so crazy? We should DO SOMETHING and we shouldn't stop DOING SOMETHING until everyone is cool. But nothing ever gets cool. So millenials and such just get caught in this doom loop of anxiety about someone, somewhere being cool with being wrong.

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Rich Nost 1y ago

And "wokism" is just basically this alarmist, academic mentality ossified into a secular religion. These children think they are the first cohort of himanity to discover that people are awful. They are simply just, as a result of human record-keeping, aware of just how AWFUL humanity is. And they ADORABLY flail around trying to fix it all, despite how unfuckable it all is. I don't blame them. Pop-psychology and American exceptionalism configured society to be intolerant beyond reasonable expectations.