My job has me around yuppie boomers pretty often and I have to tell you they are absolutely fried right now.
All of the institutions they’ve put their entire lives into are crumbling right in front of their eyes and I think they’ve reached the point where they can’t really cope anymore.
They’re addicted to bad news in a way that has made them almost feral. They wallow in their recent defeat in a way that makes them wish for more bad news. They desperately want things to get way (way) worse just so they can be right.
Tell them a piece of good news and they’ll barely acknowledge it.
Tim Dillon is right. The hippies of the 60’s/70’s never believed in anything, they were just drug addicts who ended up moving to different drugs. When they got old it became about money/power and their own egos.
What a way to leave the world. So many lessons to be learned from this failed generation.
Getting older as a man is realizing a lot of people you thought were your close friends do not want to see you win.
When given the opportunity, they will sabotage you in subtle ways.
Not fun to come to grips with.