{"id":52572,"date":"2024-03-25T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=52572"},"modified":"2024-03-24T09:51:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T13:51:01","slug":"qotd-generational-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/03\/25\/qotd-generational-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Generational politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The major theme of my writing is guilt \u2014 how blaming others is maliciously used as a disabling mechanism and how people and cultures toss it around like a hot potato. No one, unless they’re masochists or are trying to earn social-approval points, ever wants to accept guilt \u2014 they want to tie it around someone else’s<\/em> neck and let them sink to the bottom of the lake with it. This is why I believe Christianity has such perennial appeal \u2014 because Jesus takes the rap for you.<\/p>\n

I’ve been making this point for years, but you’ve all been too busy projecting your guilt onto others and blaming them for all your problems to listen to me.<\/p>\n

The reason I get fixated on certain topics is because they in some way powerfully reflect this theme of misplaced blame. This may burst quite a few of your bubbles, but the fact that I’ve focused on the endless bashing of whites for years is not a sign of how deeply in love I am with white people but rather a fascination with the fact they’re getting blamed for many things that demonstrably aren’t their fault. It’s the same reason I focus on the gender wars \u2014 men nearly aren’t as awful as they’re being depicted, and women are nowhere near as innocent as the current narrative says they are.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t been paying attention, there’s been escalating intergenerational hostility across our fair land, and people are increasingly identifying with dumb, media-manufactured generational names \u2014 AKA Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z \u2014 as if they were scientific categories that are predictive of human behavior rather than arbitrary designations along the lines of Virgo, Capricorn, Scorpio, and Leo.<\/p>\n

It’s some weird new metastasized form of identity politics. And, since it comes with the turf, these groups are blaming each other for all that ails the world.<\/p>\n

It’s dumber than astrology […] but this intensely stupid way of framing the world refuses to die.<\/p>\n

Jom Goad, “The Myth of Boomer Privilege”, Taki’s Magazine<\/em><\/a>, 2019-11-03.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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