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Lemmy users lack nuace and it stops actual discussion.
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this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2024
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Theres truth to this but I think the general sentiment is archaic and overblown to the point it's almost anachronistic.
It used to be that cohorts would grow more conservative as they aged - trying to keep everything like they know, essentially. This was true when we built societies that allowed generations to prosper.
We don't see that seismic shift in millennials or the older zoomers. We see the opposite. Millennials onward are actively moving further left, not just appearing further left because the Overton window has shifted. If anything, the window shifting, casting those in the center as "left", hasn't pulled the left to center, but the other way around. It's pushed the center to be more open to the lefts ideas. The left still convulses at the centers ideas, trust me (like student loans).
This is one of those opinions that everyone likes to assume is part of the silent majority but there's just not that as much evidence to back up the confidence in which it's announced - which, remember this, is 100% the main tactic of those in the center. This is the "end of history", everything's figured out, inability to see beyond themselves that makes leftists say neoliberalism (the prevailing media world view, center-right) is a cult or that liberalism is a mental illness -the former I agree with, the latter I do not.
Once this tone is dropped, its a mine field of red flags representing the death of nuance, that we've reached the limits of their rationality and critical thinking.
Just like breaking thru the rights MAGA cult, breaking the centers techno authoritarianism is like explaining 3D to Flatlanders. And if that sounds like gobbledygook to you, you've either been completely sheltered (and in that case, buckle up, things are waaaay worse than you were told growing up) or you're fully indoctrinated into either ideologue. Blinders on. Kamakazi away.