>Death By Boomers, Tim Dillon
>Bowling Alone
>Sadly, Porn
>>24594196
>I do think it's worth just flatly stating that I think these two are related. ALL of my friends (I'm 29) describe parents that are emotionally zombies, bar one or two exceptions, with mixtures of unhealed trauma, total worship of capitalism, rabid politicking, and or a godlessness that bleeds into every area of their life.
Cradle to Grave television catered just to them, and all marketing-- the most psyopped cohort ever. Soviets at least could joke about the obvious, "There's no TRUTH in NEWS and no NEWS in TRUTH." Add over that the nihilistic permission to indulge having MAD in the background. Of course they're pathologically risk averse and rubbernecking tourists to suffering and unwilling witnesses to the truth of whatever the matter is, all to save face at any cost.
>>24596691
>I think you're onto something. They internalized the sort of consumer atheism that was circulating around the time of their youth and didn't dive deeper. I think when I brought up existential questions as a child or aspects of my own mind that scared me they weren't ready to take that on themselves so they told me "I overthink everything" and then that later became "I liked worrying." I just stopped bringing them my concerns because I knew they wouldn't or couldn't listen. I'm realizing now that I think the role self I developed is actually this detached, depersonalized self I feel now because it's the person who is stoic and doesn't feel anything, but internally I'm going crazy.
Capitalist [De]Realism. It's really just the ostrich act of passive/vulnerable narcissism, mild sociopathy. These are fucking hippies that couldn't wait to slob out and not put on their Sunday best for church. "jUsT bE HapPy mKAY [and do as I say not as I do]"
