How come boomers were able to do drugs and other degenerate shit for over a decade and still end up in a good job and financial future. Yet if I made some tiny mistake when I was a baby it will eventually cascade to the point of no return? How is this fkin fair?
Boomers were chads.Millennials were soys.Zoomers are chuds. Each generation has it worse than the last.
>>221784705Boomers realized that there was a bit of a cascade between generations as far as potency and availability of drugs, and a general decline in the usefulness and coolness of the people who couldn't handle their shit.Rand gacked herself out on Benzedrine - still managed to live a long life completely sure of her bullshit. Beat authors like Burroughs went harder... still managed to contain themselves with a few serious slips that led to sequestering themselves in a very heroin friendly Morrocco. Hunter S. though late to the game, might have lived forever if he hadn't killed himself. Stephen King realized he had to get clean - the coke was too available, too pure, and too much for him to handle (see: Maximum Overdrive), same for David Bowie. Everyone coming up in the 80's had that barrier to contend with - sex, drugs, and rock and roll were starting to prove increasingly fatal. Crack was starting to hit. Heroin was making a comeback and its derivatives were ending lives wholesale. AIDS started wiping out neighbourhoods. Designer drugs were putting an end to lucidity and life in equal measure... It wasn't just "Mind the gap between mental illness and acid" like the Syd Barrett tube station declared. It very much became "You probably shouldn't try to handle this. You will become a casualty of cool."And so cool became its own casualty. Sorry about your luck.>t. writes words and music prolifically at speeds and accuracies unheard of when I was born... still needs to work part time to pay rent.
>>221784705Ok
>why was the generation who joined the work force during a period of unprecedented economic growth able to become financially stable?wow I don't knowthat's a real tough one great post
>>221784705Boomers didn't have fent, meth and all the fucked up drugs of today.
>>221784705if you were not retarded you could simply do your drugs on Friday night so you were sober by the time you have to work again Monday morning
>>221787290I mean... they did. Nazis had meth. Fent's been around since the early 60's. MK Ultra did all kinds of work with all kinds of substances. They had a more regimented existence, and they were mostly too young to be hippies - they caught the backswing of that. "These addicts are delinquents. They've given up on life!" Meanwhile, aside from clearlight LSD, and maybe the more experienced mushroomheads, their drugs were aimed at taking gentle strolls to the sweeter edges of perception - not swandives into Yog Sothoth's gates. Even their weed was like 4-5% THC, and their beer was maybe 6% unless they were living somewhere with a history of zymurgy. When's the last time you saw weed that was less than 20% THC?
>>221784705they didn't need to compete with 6 million indians
>>221784705Most boomers weren't hippies.
>>221787766>muh nazi meth pop history mythologyIt was akin to prescription adderall and everyone used it, even the allies. American soldiers in 'nam used enough heroin to wipe out entire ghettos in the deep south. But, it was in controlled doses and they were a much more well socialised generation anyway. Loneliness and disenfranchisement, especially of the economic kind, cause addiction. At least among non schizoid normies who can't handle being alone.
