My Dad’s Response to MONOPOLY-Who Owns the World?
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It is amazing how boomers feel their identity is so tied into the TV screen. There are certain things where asking them to question what the TV told them is going to be harder, because they were indoctrinated into that stuff as children, but Covid? Boomers should not be so attached to Covid and the New Normal. They should be able to remember what life was like before all that. And even 9/11. Boomers should not be as attached to the official 9/11 narrative as they are, since they were already quite old when it happened. I guess it is all about that TV though. They have trusted the TV without question since birth so it doesn’t matter how insane the people on TV become, they just feel like this technology cannot be used to lie to them. Even though all the TV personalities that built this trust aren’t there any more, and they’ve all been replaced with people decades younger than the boomer, the boomer still cannot let go of the TV. It’s like they believe the technology itself somehow confers truth implicitly.
I am glad he was able to watch the video and start to consider the possibility that not everything on TV is true, and that there are some people out there who might put their own self-interests over the interests of the people.
I'm sixty six. I'm a boomer, but I've not been tied to the Jewtube in over twenty years. I know a lot of folks of generations after mine that are tied to the Jewtube.
Your generalization doesn't fit reality, and it is devisive to the movement.
True. The divisiveness brought by the blanket criticism of 'boomers' (which includes Trump, me, my wife, and millions of other hardcore patriots) is pointless bullshit that operates AGAINST Q's overall message, not with it.
Excellent response to such devisive dribble...
Boomers are the people fixing this for the most part. I'm also a boomer. And these people don't harp on anybody but the deep state. But you sure use it to justify being immature. Which I hear is a trait of your generation. Just kidding.
I don't get upset when people start harping on millennials and you shouldn't either when people stereotype your generation. Obviously you are not a typical boomer because you get your info from other places. And I am not a typical millennial because I don't get offended easily. I think you boomers have such a thin skin because you weren't raised on the internet where there's no shortage of assholes name calling from the comfort and security of their armchairs. Sun_wolf's generalization is accurate. Old folks rely on TV news for most if not all of the info they consume. Take a look at Fox News ads during the day: catheters, life alert, mesothelioma, etc. We shouldn't censor the truth because it hurts your feelings.
I agree...don't paint a generation with such a broad brush! I am in that generation and have identified much of these matters for many years...and know many others who also have been aware for years...and haven't been watching television for more than 20 years either. Comment below says 95% of boomers are gripped by tv...where would one get such an estimate?
Do you believe that you are the rule or the exception though? What percentage of boomers do you think implicitly trust the television?
This is not a hateful observation either. It’s just what I see over and over again. The generation that first grew up on TV now has an implicit trust for the technology. Many boomers who do start to distrust TV only go so far as to reject CNN and MSNBC but still trust Fox. And there are even boomers who know that Fox is full of lies, but continue to watch it because they just need to have the TV running in the background to feel normal.
Again, every generation has its peculiarities and strengths and flaws. These are all generalizations and there will be exceptions, but we literally cannot communicate without the use of generalizations. Policing language to coddle people’s feelings usually isn’t the right move, especially when it’s being done in promotion of a lie.
You know, I don't think it is either the rule or the exception. Somewhere in the middle? Education levels make a difference, family of origins socioeconomic status, IQ and EQ matter...the area of the country in which one lives; rural or urban....and so forth.
It was once thought that older generations IQs were lower than younger generations, until the realization dawned that older generations may have had fewer years of education to compare with basic fund of knowledge of those who had more years of formal schooling...so 8th grade compared to those who had more of high school and college which is like apples and oranges comparison..at least back in the days when there really WAS some kind of education going on in most classrooms compared to the indoctrination happening too commonly today. ....and different ways of processing information from person to person, too.
Generalizing is a part of communicating, yes.
It is the question of overgeneralizing for an entire "generation" whether hateful or not, that concerns me.
What percentage of your generation are glued to the bullshit on your phones? It's not even sound thinking.
When it comes to boomers and The Cult of TV, yes we absolutely can generalise. One can generalise if something is generally true, that's how it works.
It is a big problem and the solution is not exactly obvious. You clearly must have witnessed it: the teevee hypnosis boxes have a total grip on 95% of boomer brains. You haven't noticed this?
The TV hypnosis has a 95% grip on all brains.
Its not only "boomers" and its not just tv. Its every loving generation and its tv, social media, IRL social groups, employment policies, school curriculums, Colleges accross the world, print media, even some churches. Its everywhere so it reaches everyone.
OK but do you not see that Boomers are being more influenced by TV and Millennials are being more influenced by social media?
If it is now hate speech to point out something this obvious, we have a problem. How are we even supposed to discuss the situation honestly if boomers cannot handle their generation being criticized in any way? Meanwhile look at how these same people, who cannot handle something as gentle as “You might have too much implicit trust for this technology”, then turn around and skewer Millennials as the laziest generation, the worst generation, the snowflake generation, the triggered generation. Certainly those generalizations are about as accurate as the boomer generalizations, and yet everyone laughs at the Millennial getting triggered and yelling, “Not all! Not all!”
Again, when we use generalizations, they are used with the understanding that EVERYONE knows there are exceptions to the rule. That is literally what a generalization is. A statement that is true in most cases, but not all.
Also, this exception mindset, where no generalized statement can ever be made, is also what gets us our current situation where pointing out that the deaths of black people in Chicago is due to inner city gang violence. People will get pissed off at that and say, “Oh, so what? You’re saying EVERY black person in Chicago is a GANG member now?!?” It’s an exhausting way to argue and all it does is keep everyone spinning with rage and confusion.
i too am a boomer, awake for 50+ yrs as well as many of the ppl i talk to we have been waiting a long time for this world wide awakening
Look, when people say millennials this and millennials that, I don't get my panties in a bunch. I know I am not the typical millennial and obviously you are not the typical boomer. Stereotypes are based in truth hence your reference to "Jewtube". By your own logic you should be ashamed of your anti-Semitic rhetoric. But you and I both know that's BS because media is run by Jews. Sun-wolf's generalization is spot on too. Every boomer I know has Fox News on all day. Hell look at Fox's ads that run during the day: catheters, life alert, mesothelioma, etc. Now is not the time to censor speech because it hurts feelings and that includes making arcuate generalizations.
Downvoted for blanket divisiveness
Try to realize millions of boomers, including Trump, are diehard American patriots - i.e., ON YOUR SIDE. Don't bring this divisive crap into this forum.
Meh, it’s an accurate generalization. There are many aspects of myself that are generalized here that I do not get sensitive about because the generalization is accurate. Just assume that everyone is aware there are exceptions to every generalization and the comment does not apply to you. Trying to police language to appease everyone’s feelings only leads to tyranny and censorship and is part of the reason we are in the situation we are in.
Quit swatting at flies guys. A lie is a lie and a Patriot is a good thing.. knock off the division please.. be it on TV, social media, teletype...it's lies. we're in WW3 and we need everyone moving forward.