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[-] omalaul@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

The century of find out with almost no active participation in the previous century of fuck around.

A lot of "climate collapse global late stage capitalism and food is more and more plastic" stick with very little "convenience products are kinda nifty" carrot

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

It's kind of bittersweet being a very tail-end Gen X person. On the happy side, I got to do my childhood and teen years in the "fuck about" era, but on the unhappy side my entire adulthood has been in the "find out" era, and I get to remember what it was like briefly living in a world that wasn't entirely going to shit.

[-] DefunctReality@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

it's kind of affirming to hear you say that. As a gen Z person I feel like we're constantly being gaslit into thinking stuff has always been bad and we just complain more or something

[-] Emptiness@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you! This was very well put. Felt like a big puzzle piece just fell in place and this discomfort of not knowing why stuff feels so weird nowadays let go a bit. ❤️🤜

[-] triclops6@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Older millennial here, so about your age, I have really early childhood memories before ozone issues, recessions, and planet fucking, after that it's been one paper straw after another

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Tbf it was slowly going to shit back then too.

[-] moriquende@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

my whole childhood in the 90s was the "ozone layer is dying" but at the same time optimistic outlook on life?

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I feel like I could still join in on all the fuck around going on, but the find out has simultaneously already started and I can't deal with the cognitive incongruence. Most people seem to be just fine with that tho. Must be nice being able to just turn your brain off and keep fucking the planet like that.

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