I always thought that like every generation since we invented generations was labelled the "Me Generation", except for Gen Xers, because nobody really even bothered to ever even name them, which is something I kind of find more interesting than the whole boomer-millennial hate boner, but nobody's ever willing to talk about. but also

So yes, you’re a Zoomer and are lucky that Boomers for you will always be grandparent types. The rest of us suffered their generational narcissism.

I mean I have grandparents that were extremely shitty to my parents, you know, you can see how that has damaged a person, as their kid, but I also have another set of grandparents that are kind of chill and are. you know, I mean, they're old still, grandpa's maybe a little too proud that he's not racist, but then I kind of get that, when like everyone his age is also pretty extremely racist. Actually I just talked myself kind of into hating old people again because a shit ton of them are super omega racist, even relative to like the normal liberal baseline, which is a really low bar to have somehow passed underneath. it's like if you beat a game of limbo by flying to austrailia.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

When I graduated high school, one of the promises I made to myself is that I wouldn't let myself get out of touch with reality. Working at a large university leading teams of undergrads has really helped me to hold on to that goal.

As I mentioned before, you can age without getting old. That, for me, is the goal. I have brothers who are literally millenials (like right on the edge of 1980) and can't stop complaining about millenials and becomes offended if you point out that he is one. This same brother wouldn't watch cartoons as a 10 year old because, according to him, cartoons are for children. He was born old and lacks the ability to see that he's making the same complaints that people made about him.