• Madrigal@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Boomers started out progressive then sold out. They project this onto everyone else as if it’s the natural order of things.

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      1 year ago

      Same with the whole “social experiment” thing they accuse everyone of.

      In fact, their childhoods were the biggest social experiment ever. Suburbs, nuclear families with mothers who needed uppers to do everything expected of them, easy access to free and cheap education and loans, etc. They act like it’s the way things always were, and that it’s the only way things should ever be.

      It was all a fluke of the post war economy. Not normal, not sustainable, and trying to appease their fantasy is killing the world.

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        1 year ago

        If you want to dive into the utter failure that is/was the suburban experiment, I highly recommend the book Strong Towns published by the nonprofit of the same name. Not Just Bikes has a good overview series on it, which how I found it.

        The very, very oversimplified tldr is that suburbia is a giant ponzi scheme that’s on the verge (relatively speaking, within the next couple decades) of collapsing in on itself.