Gotta love when the Internet calls 80's kids boomers π and no it was never a utopia but it was our fucked up times, and no one else's.
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My take on boomerifying is getting other generations to behave like the stereotypical boomer, not that they are actual boomers by birthday.
I agree with you, but it is a lot like Boomers calling everyone younger a Millenial.
I was born in '79. I know a lot of 1980s/1990s stuff that's floating in popular consciousness right now is fictional romanticised bullshit, because it's based on romaticised fiction made in that era.
For example, I knew most kids didn't hang out at The Mall. I was a kid. We didn't have a goddamn mall. American movies and TV showed kids hanging out at The Mall. Maybe hanging out at the Mall was an aspirational thing. Or something.
It's a thing that happened for some people but it's not the entire truth about the era. It's not just that people tend to remember the good bits, they tend to remember the good bits that happened to someone else.
There's a reason why nobody makes AI slop about the Finnish 1990s banking crisis and its wide systemic repercussions felt to this day. Edit: Sorry if none of this makes sense, just ate something other than cheap potatoes for the first time in a week
One of my most vivid memories of the 80s was that bullying was absolutely rampant and no one did anything about it. Parents then were just like, "It's part of growing up!"
Bullying from all sides with adults taking part in ways no different than the children. Made me wonder if they whole 'respect your elders' made any fucking sense.
Wouldn't call it rampant.
Didn't really cause a dent on that generation either.
I copped a few dints
He is talking about his own experience, not for the whole generation
Then maybe they should choose their words more carefully, because that is not what their words portray
It was rampant where I grew up.
Finnish 1990s banking crisis
I was curious and I came back with a Wikipedia link for everyone else.
Thank you
Thatβs the thing about this. We lived through the 80s and know what it smells like, so this isnβt aimed at us. Itβs all the kids who are into Stranger Things and the like with their weird Instagram Filter take on the decade.
A very heavily biased article, discrediting that many people's lifes were indeed better in 1985.
Who is this article written for? Who do you try to reach that way? Why sow division?
You're only going to reach people if you actually help them have a better outlook in life. Writing incisive articles like that is not gonna do any good.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties
The 80s were already the second decade of the decline after the gold standard was revoked in 1971 and wages became decoupled from productivity. Everything was on a slowly accelerating slide downhill from there, although it took until the 90s for the first people to truly notice things were going sideways.
You want a real economic golden era? Try the 50s and the 60s, where a single wage earner could work a low-end service-level job (selling shoes, for example), and make enough to own a detached SFH, a car in the garage, support a SAH spouse and several children, go on modest vacations every year with at least one more ambitious one every few years, and still have enough left over to save generously for retirement.
I think you may be missing the word βwhiteβ somewhere in your analysis
Married with children isn't a fib
Abandon your monetarist goldbug worldview, the gold decoupling and subsequent floating of the international exchange rates are downstream of the actual policy decision that have emiserated the population.
The globalists open the western worker to global competition, they lost their leverage by losing their scarcity and competence.
The subsequent decline comes from the system's inertia and the burning of the future with debt and literally the future by having spending money instead of kids.
If you want the golden age back for normal people, then there is NO REMEDY other than giving them their leverage and power back.
But how do you do that ? Taxes and interest rates serve to dis-empower those who need it the most and regular people are the one MOST hurt by these.
The neoliberal religion refuses to treat people who "win" the game of capital differently than regular people, as if they were somehow on an equal footing.
The result ? The more wealth you have the easier it becomes to acquire and accumulate more of it. This needs to be exactly reversed, the poorer you are, the easier it should be to acquire but the more you have the harder it gets. Up until a point where it becomes nearly impossible to go beyond the "capital horizon" some kind of equilibrium state where wealth can lo longer be acquired faster than you lose it.
It's not some shiny metal bullshit which only serves the status quo like discussion about which toilet should a trans person piss in.
The subsequent decline comes from the systemβs inertia and the burning of the future with debt and literally the future by having spending money instead of kids
The 1% can make their own wage slaves.
Yes, let their 1% breeding mares birth directly into the wood chipper if they'd like, I'll abstain for these couple lifetimes
Abandon your monetarist goldbug worldview, the gold decoupling and subsequent floating of the international exchange rates are downstream of the actual policy decision that have emiserated the population.
I never said they were directly related, I just wanted to point out that they both occurred in the same year, in 1971.
This needs to be exactly reversed, the poorer you are, the easier it should be to acquire but the more you have the harder it gets. Up until a point where it becomes nearly impossible to go beyond the "capital horizon" some kind of equilibrium state where wealth can lo longer be acquired faster than you lose it.
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Absolutely.
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80s nostalgia ai slop to relive memories? π΄
80s nostalgia to relive memories by looking at vhsrips of 80s home videos and media? πππ
Reminds me of all those stupid "cyberpunk 1994, office nights 1998" ai slop playlists on YouTube. They all have a common theme: they don't represent or even remotely sound like the kind of music from the year they claim to take you back to. and the tracks, if one can call them that, are the same repetitive, thoughtless rhythms. If you go to YouTube to find some background music to listen to, these kinds of uploads dominate the search results today. And it's all D-tier shit.
It's true that this is all AI slop and that they are disgustingly manipulative videos but I do disagree with the notion that the nostalgia and The era was fake and never existed. As a child of the '80s and '90s we really did stay out all day until the street lights came on, and hang out in pizza places and malls and the internet and our screen life has played a major role in changing that. What is heinous here is that people are creating triggers just to manipulate generations. Not the nostalgia.
I donβt know. I also remember spending summer nights talking under street lanterns, riding my bike around the block, and playing the Snoopy tennis game & watch. But the video I saw did not feel nostalgic. It felt like a TV ad that I didnβt believe even back then. Or worse, it felt like a cult, which was terrifying.
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Itβs all real here, no filters, no screens.
β¦ said the AI.
Fuck I hate that garbage. The 80βs were amazing. We donβt need new tech ruining that memory.
I may have been one of the lucky. With all it's warts, the 80's, for many young people, were a banger. Sort of the final bang of the 60's and 70's. Perfect? Nowhere near, but the music, social, artistic, and so many other aspects, were pretty damn cool, and for the young crowd it was mainly what mattered. Things like the fall of the Berlin wall, the perceived end of the end of the cold war and the nuclear Armageddon threat gave us a sense of optimism. Looking back there are things, like the Reagan/Thatcher tandem, that were setting the stage to the neo-liberal clusterfuck we live in, but our focus was elsewhere.
I fucking loved it in the 80βs. Yeah, the music, the filmsβ¦ so good. The politics were crap as it usually is. And Iβll say that even with the latest admin being wait it is, diversity has come a long way- but the 80βs were an oasis for me.
I remember it bitter-sweetly. We can never have that again.
It honestly fits tho. It was an era of rising neoliberalism and technology, establishing the cyberpunk critique of the world we're currently living.
yeah! let's go back to a time when gas was $12 a gallon. where women had two jobs, making babies and making dinner. where teen pregnancy was at its highest ever. where the government fueled a drug and arms war in South America. where the constant threat of thermonuclear war was banging on the iron dome every single day.
yeah....sounds like a fuckin blast from the past. fuckin rad.
Dont forget the insane racism and misogyny and HOMOPHOBIA on another level. It made news when someone shook a gay guys hand. And the good ol death by AIDS sweeping the nation. The horrific parenting that led to PSA asking if they know where their kids are. The fucking unsolved kidnappings. The escalators that didn't have emergency stops and would choke you to death on your own shoelace.
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