What book will help me understand why boomers are so fucking retarded? Articles/essays also appreciated
>>25641867You only seethe at boomers because you’re broke, which is your own fault.
Le Capitalisme de la séduction by Michel Clouscard.>inb4 no English translationJust translate it with AI or read an article about it>inb4 but he's le commieAnd a broken clock is right twice a day.
>>25641876>Le Capitalisme de la séductionThis seems very interesting thanks. Could you tell a bit about how you think it explains the whole phenomenon? Their behavior is obviously a matter of consumer culture since they seem entitled to have anything they want
>>25641867>What book will help me understand why boomers are so fucking retarded?Unironically,
>>25641867A generation of sociopaths
>>25641876>>25641895>>25641916Victim-mentality faggots. You’re worse than women and minorities. Go read a book about why boomers oppress you, while men of action grab life by the balls.This is EXACTLY what boomers mean when they say that younger generations are overly sensitive snowflakes.
>>25641867>>25641923The irony of it all is that boomers are the most sensitive people I know. Thats why they have a melt down when their food isnt served quickly enough at cheeseburger diner. All the whining about millennials is mostly projection to try and compensate for their own lack of development. There is obviously a lot of truth to the whole snowflake stereotype, but its just intellectually disingenuous to paint boomers as anything more than large children. Here are some things that I think may have contributed to their retardness: Dr Spock: shitty child rearing philosophy that said the key to raising children was allowing them to practice self-expression without much discipline Twilight sleep births: women were essentially knocked out for pregnancy and so missed the developmental milestone of immediate contact with their infants Lead in gasoline and pigments: see pic
>>25641895Well I mean the entire book's all about it, but basically (I had to go back to my notes about it sorry if it's all over the place) the boomer mentality is the product of post-war consumer capitalism replacing the old morality of labor with a new morality of consumption. Whereas before WWII traditional capitalism taught thrift and discipline for delayed gratification, afyer WWII, Americans spread a new consumer culture through rebellious rock, easy to wear jeans, mindless entertainment such as pinball machines (or vidyas today). Electricity and appliances generally made complex industrial labor accessible at the push of a button, disconnecting consumption from production. So they enjoyed the fruits of industrial labor at the push of a button without understanding production, and became like spoiled children expecting everything to work by pushing a single button.Capitalism then commodified rebellion, sexuality and transgression (apparent rebellion against the establishment became a new market for the establishment), turning political revolt awat from economic exploitation into a consumerist revolt against traditional morality, whcih gave you infantilized eternal adolescents who confuse personal freedom with over-indulgence, emancipation with transgression and entitlement to consume with the right to enjoy without producing and if anything consuming more than they produce (which goes against the old capitalism of producing more than you consume); individuals are encouraged not to produce, but to buy and consume goods that fulfill their desires and sense of identity.Even love got stripped of all its mystique, it became consompution, leading to a dissolution of deep emotional bonds and a shift towards more superficial, short-term connections.Everything revolves around the illusion of "freedom" to do whatever one wants. But the individual is caught in the cycle of consuming more than they produce, ultimately leading to endless short-term satisfaction, frustation and selfishness."Everything is allowed, nothing is possible".
>>25641917There was the lead in the gasoline that was causing intellectual stunting.
>>25641976That definitely matches my experience with said boomerinos. It is better to be sympathetic, though. It is an extraordinary case if any of them managed not to get caught up in all the marketing psyop stuff. I have recently spent quite a bit of time with some boomers in their 60s/70s and they just do not know what to do with themselves
>>25641867Propaganda by Bernays
>>25641867I realize you asked for books, but if you're not averse to watching a video, I found this helpful:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLyCVGkwhB4
>>25642207Imagine your father, or a romantic prospect, seeing you watch a YouTube essay. Wouldn't they be ashamed and worried about you? Why do you bring yourself so low?
>>25642304My dad watches actual AI slop. He doesn't even like it, he just says there's no commercials as if that's a reason to do it
>>25642304>Wouldn't they be ashamed and worried about you?not necessarily. i think it'd depend on the video desu
>>25641867Oh dear, did your parents get a reverse mortgage to fund their retirement?Looks like you'd better get a job, you whiny faggot.
>>25641916That book breeds a very special brand of ressentiment in the mentally unstable.
Written by an guy who was an politician in UK
>>25642304>Imagine your father, or a romantic prospectWere you diddled, anon?
>>25641867https://nymag.com/article/tom-wolfe-me-decade-third-great-awakening.html
