The answer is "television". I think that's the biggest difference between me and others in my age cohort. I know people whose entire adult lives have been "work 8 hours/spend 6 hours in front of the box". Not only were their brains being thoroughly washed but they lost a lot of usefulness in their bodies too. I'm sure that's where the uptick in knee and hip replacements in Boomers comes from -sitting motionless for hours in one chair, watching TV, getting fatter as they go.
That's like the "it" response and I totally agree but there has to be more layers here. Granted they probably also stem from the TV. What you described was my mom and dad growing up. I'm 36 and they are 61 and 65 respectively. Mostly my mom though. All Fox News by the way. My entire childhood/young adult life was just fox news one-liners dished out as life advice with zero substance or passion. "Lace up your bootstraps" is an inherently positive mindset but it's not even close to a starting point and requires more than just repeating it over and over again to mean anything to a rudderless child/teen.
I mean, there's this incredibly frustrating barrier I cannot seem to penetrate which is this unwaivering inability to admit they were ever wrong about anything and there's no way I could "teach" them anything even now as a dad with two small children. Yeah I get it, the TV but what the fuck? It's like, I saved both their lives by literally shouting at them and blocking the door so they wouldn't go zombie walk to the CVS. They even now admit the vaxx is deadly but WILL NOT ACKNOWLEDGE that I'm the one that saved them.
I'm aware of the patent thing number whatever on google about the mind control shit through the TV. It's absolutely bonkers and "TV" just seems like too simple an answer but alas... This is legit brainwashing.
How do I get them to understand that if their whole life was a lie, then wherein does their wisdom lie? It's awful and in some ways is worse than physical death. I suppose this is how the deep state works though. They just steal everything from us emotionally and mentally.
Idk what the fuck they did to boomers but this behavior is that generation in a nutshell.
The answer is "television". I think that's the biggest difference between me and others in my age cohort. I know people whose entire adult lives have been "work 8 hours/spend 6 hours in front of the box". Not only were their brains being thoroughly washed but they lost a lot of usefulness in their bodies too. I'm sure that's where the uptick in knee and hip replacements in Boomers comes from -sitting motionless for hours in one chair, watching TV, getting fatter as they go.
That's like the "it" response and I totally agree but there has to be more layers here. Granted they probably also stem from the TV. What you described was my mom and dad growing up. I'm 36 and they are 61 and 65 respectively. Mostly my mom though. All Fox News by the way. My entire childhood/young adult life was just fox news one-liners dished out as life advice with zero substance or passion. "Lace up your bootstraps" is an inherently positive mindset but it's not even close to a starting point and requires more than just repeating it over and over again to mean anything to a rudderless child/teen.
I mean, there's this incredibly frustrating barrier I cannot seem to penetrate which is this unwaivering inability to admit they were ever wrong about anything and there's no way I could "teach" them anything even now as a dad with two small children. Yeah I get it, the TV but what the fuck? It's like, I saved both their lives by literally shouting at them and blocking the door so they wouldn't go zombie walk to the CVS. They even now admit the vaxx is deadly but WILL NOT ACKNOWLEDGE that I'm the one that saved them.
I'm aware of the patent thing number whatever on google about the mind control shit through the TV. It's absolutely bonkers and "TV" just seems like too simple an answer but alas... This is legit brainwashing.
How do I get them to understand that if their whole life was a lie, then wherein does their wisdom lie? It's awful and in some ways is worse than physical death. I suppose this is how the deep state works though. They just steal everything from us emotionally and mentally.