My first memory was of global cooling where mainstream media and teachers constantly told kids we were going to freeze to death because we used evil oil, natural gas and coal. Right around 1970.
No we are too busy struggling to afford homes, transportation and other necessities... and then we are distracted by tons of entertainment and slob. Back in the day people dedicated all their free time to becoming great and making something great, now we dedicate our time to nothing productive.
Having been around for decades, Affording a home, transportation and stuff has always been hard. Most houses built today have hardwood, granite counter tops, expensive appliances and many other "upgrades". I seen a lot of people build 50K in kitchen cabinets without blinking. You don't see shag carpet over plywood much anymore to speak. Best bet for any young person is to build a small house simply. There will always be a market to sell a starter home. Just look at how many boomers still carry debt on houses they bought 25 years ago, Even if they had it easier, they squandered it.
@@DarrenMossman I'm not from the USA, here we've been using concrete reinforced pillars, concrete and clay bricks for as long as they have existed. The only potential wooden part is the frame for the roof, but even that has been replaced by metal or slanted rooftops. And the funny part is that my country went from almost 11 million people down to 6.5 million people in the past 34 years, while at the same time we have built 3-4x more homes and yet the prices in the 90s were 2-3x median yearly salaries in big populated cities, while now they are 9-12x median yearly salaries. It's not supply and demand, it's a freaking oligopoly, where businesses and rich people buy out the homes or straight up built them and then use algorithms with income data to price them to where you need two median salaries to get a loan to afford them in the age where people are less and less together with a partner... excellent...
You are on our side, Aaron. Thank you. Actually, we have written great cultural works. I have. People are just too stupid to understand our works, and publishers wont take the risks on us. Our masterpieces will be discovered in chests 100 years in the future. And remember: "One of the most extraordinary things about Bach is that his music had absolutely no affect on either the musicians or the public of his own day. According to the musical disposition of the period, he was generations behind his time."
@@-lord1754 It's sobering in that it's easy to read them, and to think about them, as comfortable, familiar names - it's a surprise to learn how much suffering they must have seen and gone through. The example that comes to my mind is CS Lewis. I think of Lewis as a mild-mannered, middle-aged, well-fed professor who wrote children's stories and talked a lot of Christianity - which is what he was. I don't think of him as a twenty year old on the Western Front, but somehow it's the same man. It's the same with other writers too, like Daniel Defoe and Cervantes, and philosophers like Socrates and Descartes. If I think about it it's obvious that these men would have been likely to go to war, given when they lived, but it's still a surprise to learn that they did, and that some of them had a bad time of it. It's probably too sweeping to say that good art and deep thinkin' have to come from personal suffering, but I suspect it's true in quite a few cases.
@@GhostofFHBradley You only lose stupid people and smart people in foreign wars. Wise people don't participate in wars. They usually dodge draft one way or another. It needs to PERSONALLY involve them for them to take up arms. People who don't learn from mistakes, or learn from their own mistakes, go to war. People who learn from others mistakes never make any mistakes, like going to war for Jewish bankers who have been trying to eradicate white people since Jesus was born. The last American war wise people had any business fighting in was the civil war, and wise people lost cause they were outnumbered 10-1 by immigrant mercenaries hired on by rich men north of Richmond. And of course the proud stupid people, and confused smart people who served the Union only to go home and have their job taken by an immigrant, and their wife brainwashed by feminism while their kids got indoctrinated cause mom wanted to go work at factory and halve wages again like the immigrants did. You don't have to worry about losing any wise people in Taiwan, Iran, or Ukraine. You have to have a 2-digit IQ to go to any of those countries in the first place.
@@GhostofFHBradley Nah i fully agree. I think masterpieces of art can come from people who havent suffered to that extent but every terrible writer ive noticed lives in a bubble has stuff spoonfed to them and had an easy life
as far as remake and reboots of movies, sorry fellas but Boomers and Gen-Xers are at the top of the helm of these studios. they MUST take the blame on that decision-making. When it comes to talent, music making, acting, yes the young generations still kind of control that aspect. But on youtube and as far as editing and comedy goes, they younger generation are doing pretty well. A lot of them are running their own little empires with knowledge of all the disciplines, the technicals for video, the talent, the comedy, the post production. The democratized pricing of media production has been taken advantage of by a lot of talented people. And there's a lot of great video game work being done. It's very complex to make games so it's a wonder that any gmes come out at all, let alone the games that come out every quarter, sheesh.
@@Patrick-pv9pe While true, I don't think it spoke of generations in the same way. But if it's true, then we're in for another 2-3 generations of famine before we will again get a generation of plenty
With regards to the Milfy Avenger, your best shot is a Japanese manga artist. What you proposed would have DC and Marvel personnel go stark, raving mad and pissed off.
Im going to assume probably not but who really gives a fuck about any of us in Gen Z at the end of the day? Exactly, no one. So we are going to get money and stay out the way. Fuck everybody fr
Stories about drinking from the hose, playground equipment injuries and our parents not knowing where we were is about all I can think of. We’re also the reason washed up rock bands won’t retire.
Gen X brought the Internet to the world. Search engines. Also electric cars and rockets that land themselves. What has your generation brought besides mental health issues and safe spaces?
You described my arc to a tee. Showed my artwork in galleries all over the world, snowball was just getting rolling then the woke shit took off and galleries only wanted to give opportunities to any group except white and male. Moved to work directly for Disney making less cerebral entertainment for normal people, lasted ten years before the same wave caught up there. I'm making some 4k remasters of my work from 20 years ago now because I'm comfortable enough to work for other people infrequently but at this point I'm only motivated to impress myself. I'm well aware there's no opportunity out there for this kind of work, especially at the dawn of limitless AI generated content competing for the space.
This is the epiphany I came to as well. I think people will still want to learn how to do things as well, so there may be a need for hands on tutorials. AI doen't know how to cook an egg so we still have time there perhaps.
I'll have to check that out. There's actually a surprising amount of revisionist historians just no one knows about them. If you like history search for Thomas 777.
The 80's were a time of technology and experimentation. There was a lot of shit produced in the 80's. We only remember the golden nuggets that survived. But you are right, there was a lot of originality during this time.
Stop man. There were tons of remakes from the early days of film back then. Culture died off on 9/11/2001 and was buried in 2008 during the financial crisis.
The 50s-90s was best. I would give anything to be an older boomer or a member of the silent generation. Millennials and younger have truly been robbed of great times.
I always believed older music made more money than modern music. Music has been awful since the year 2000 and onward. The other day I was trying to think of good songs that have been made in the last 20-25 years. I can’t think of any that were truly amazing.
The rant on that first episode of She-Hulk was so powerful but not for the reason the authors thought. She was yelling at a truly traumatized character. I’m only a casual fan so I can’t list all the reasons why but suffice to say he’s been through both serious internal and external struggles. But she has to control her righteous rage “infinitely more” than him because she has to deal with cat calls as she walks to her six-figure career or the difficult people she has to work with at that job. She’s a pampered, privileged character who will never want for anything but feels like she’s a victim. That scene perfectly sums up the fake outrage, entitlement and delusion of the woke.
Inknow guys forty and over who obessesively play video games...one has what he callls 'comfort pets'...dogs. that's where we are. Oh, and he's very comfortable on welfare because he has 'anxiety'.. .
Listen young Grasshoppers, to your wise Elder... I was there when they invented the wheel. That was a Great day to behold. Our generation were hardcore. Tough times are coming, you must find your own path now and guide your people.
Yeah no Cappy. There is culture apart from whatever crap is pushed by labels. When it comes to music we do have some really great bands that put a lot of the overhyped older ones in the shadow. TV wise there are some very good gems.
Cappy I dont care if you are the biggest get off my lawn genx-r/boomer alive, you CANT deny our generation has some of the finest R&B EVER created. FRANK OCEAN WEEKND TORY LANEZ these men are generational talents, not guys mumbling into a microphone with auto tune, real art that reflects the times we live in. Also we're in an anime boom, Attack on Titan, Vinland Saga, etc. Granted there is slop just like any other era. Also, videogames have been in a downward trend in the last few years, but games like Red Dead Redemption 2 elevated the medium into an undeniable art form. I think the problem is lots of the boomers/Xrs are cut off from all the good stuff that is happening because we're in completely different algorithms
I am millennial and I wrote the most profound philosophy/science book in the history of mankind. See for example my paper How Self-Reference Builds the World by Cosmin Visan.
Yeah, I'm sure the guy who proclaims his own book to be the "Most profound in human history", wrote a book worth reading. If it really was, you wouldn't have to say it, cause other people would. Customer determines value, not seller.
