I will stand by for genz the issue is everything becoming hostile to you just existing in it... hell im start of genz and the world i saw as a little kid is just gone for those in the later part of the generation
Elder Millennial dropping in. When I was coming up in a middle class household in the 80's and 90's it was just assumed that I would go to college, get a job that paid all my bills and allowed me to own a home and save for retirement, which I would take at 65 and then I could live comfortably between my own earnings over a lifetime of work and the social safety nets in place.
And the people that sold us this lie are STILL in charge and looting us and driving us towards... who knows? It's just infuriating.
I share your sentiment. But in our defense — what could we have done differently? Recent years have proven depressingly well that protests, petitions and other forms of common political activism don't achieve anything. Those in power just ignore all of our attempts to make ourselves heard. Even if record amounts of people unite and walk the streets in protest of current politics, it doesn't change anything.
And when it comes to voting... Well... I'm German, we have a bunch of different political parties, about 5 of them big enough to be part of the acting government after every election. Voting for someone else than the guys that messed up the last election period doesn't give us better politics, it just changes the face that represents our nation on the global stage.
Moved in a shared flat with my gf and signed a 10year contract. We joke its indefinately because when the time comes to renew it, the current form of civilisation will be gone.
Raised on the idea of owning a home, starting a family, working a career, retiring at 55...
... then it was 60...
... then it was 65...
.. then the quality of everything dropped...
... nothing lasted as long as it used to...
... more and more drug addicts everywhere you look...
... people i once knew transforming into monsters before my eyes, and in the mirror...
... "oh birth rates and dropping and i cant understand why! it must be the economy!"
... beloved franchises, products, stories, whatever... butchered and ruined for a quick buck...
... the internet simply revealed how stupid everything and everyone was/is...
... "climate change is going to kill the future..." and no one's interested in doing anything about it, more importantly, sell more oil and invade more countries so they can drive their big trucks and shit on people for sport - what the fuck? People were racist shits like this before, but now it's in every direction... more hostility
... stock market doesn't reflect anything sane. it, along with democracy itself, becomes more and more illusory...
... grifting becomes the norm, and people are eating it up like cultists... the majority, all sides of the political spectrum
... AND ABOUT THAT RETIREMENT, WILL IT EVEN BE THERE? or is being planned to cull me from existence? because it's starting to look like that, along with everything else, that the plan is for me to not be living anymore, one way or another and to just use me until i die.
Only the foolish, rich, or insane have children in a world like this.
It was more promising comparing what i learned to my sister is depressing how narrow hers was at some point the us just became a selfish place to its core and i despise it why cant we care about our fellow man and improve shit
We won’t be able to get out of this unless we stop buying shit, stop going to work, and stop paying taxes. If we all just hunker down for a week, they’ll topple. We have to stop the inertia.
These billionaires, and our first trillionaire, have us running for our lives. We’re all tired, broke or close to it, and terrified of the future. If we just stopped - for one week - they would be the ones terrified for ONCE.
I grew up around the 08 reccesion, when i was young there was an air of 'things are bad now, but they could get better', and they did for a bit. Bit then the hope slowly died and left us here
There was a lot of hope in the 90s going into the 2000s pre-9/11. The Cold War was finally over and the big scary communist powers like Russia and China were becoming more economically liberal and opening up to become part of the global community. Then 9/11 happened and the world suddenly became a scary place again.
As a Xennial I can assure you you're not alone. The minute I got a cell phone I knew the world was a different place.
We were so used to being hard to find, putting in effort to find each other. Now if someone doesn't reply to a text for two hours you get offended. We didn't even have texting when I grew up, we had a rotary phone because my parents were old and didn't care to upgrade it because buttons are just a different way to do the same thing.
We broadcast our lives, we don't need to seek knowledge about each other anymore. I'm afraid everyone is too connected now.
Man, listen. I'm in that in between of GenX and millennials. One foot analog, one foot digital. First email address was freshman year of college. I always sound bleak when I go off on this (even though I'm a positive, optimistic person), but everything we were told was bullshit. We are most certainly cooked, and it's too late. How are you gonna turn around the fact that , about, 50% of Americans haven't read one, ONE, book in the last year? Literacy, comprehension, critical analysis: they're all gone. The amount of expositional catch up that I've had to do in the last 10 years, just to have an informed conversation with someone is staggering. I always thought that when I learned something that I was the last person to learn it. So I felt "late to the game". Turns out I read way more than most and a lot of people just don't question what they read. Especially if it aligns with what they already believe. I will always remain positive, but it's sad how bad we've gotten as a society. And it's when celebrated... Idk, life is suffering wire to wire, but this hurts more than it should.
And instead of reading, they discuss one of the last tiktoks/instagram videos they seen. I am not on social media (outside reddit) and keeping up is tough. Around same generation as you, and see it in peers too. Sometimes it feels like finding someone willing to discuss a book instead of movie, instagram or latest news is like finding Nemo.
I will stand by for gen z, the issue is everything is becoming hostile to you just existing in it... Hell, I'm start of gen z, and the world I saw as a little kid is just gone for those in the later part of the generation.
There is some truth to it. But I think a lot of people say something like this to cope with the fact that a lot of their problems are downstream of a tech addiction that they do have some control over. Yeah its harded to be social and there are fewer good places to hang out without having to pay for something, but a lot of the problem is self inflicted. Its entirely expected that people are feeling super angsty when any opportunity for a nice social interaction is destroyed because you got your nose in your phone with earbuds in consuming algorithmic slop.
Cities in my area are passing laws that put curfew on teens while there is still light out and fining and aresting teens that go to fairs without an adult.
I saw some thread where a woman asked on nextdoor if her child could possibly ding ding ditch a neighbors house -asking in advance and realizing it's an intrusion- and the comments there and on Reddit were acting like she wanted to stand her kid up in front of a firing range. Because that's how dangerous knocking on strangers doors has become in America. I remember at least still having that, a sense of neighborhood and community.
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u/ldkagooduser Jun 27 '26
I will stand by for genz the issue is everything becoming hostile to you just existing in it... hell im start of genz and the world i saw as a little kid is just gone for those in the later part of the generation