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.
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.