We're all used to the obvious rot and see it every day; Advil's Black Pain Equity campaign, pronoun sections on corporate meeting software, "safe injection sites" funded by municipal governments being a hot bed for drug abuse. That stuff is so brazen that anybody with a brain and without an agenda will be repelled immediately.
But what about the subtle rot? I'll use the Onion as an example. Perhaps its a bad example since they are a good showing of obvious rot, but I just learned that they purged their old African-American neighborhood terrorized by ask murderer headline and it happened with no fanfare at all. A slow purging of old material deemed ungood; a memory holing except for the fact that the Onion used to be printed on paper and people just took pictures of the old headline. But the point stands -- I had no idea it was purged until I deliberately went looking for it, and its the only old "edgy" Onion headline that appears to have been purged in this fashion.
What else have others observed?
The way memory holing was used to rehabilitate Jimmy Carter's public image. Easily the worst president of the last seven decades and yet he's idolized.
The greatest flaw of the millennial generation is their appalling lack of perspective. If something happened before they were ten years old, no it didn't.
Hey that's not fair! I mean, Obama, Bush, Bush the sequel... We've had a pretty bad run.
None of those assholes gave away the Panama Canal.
Not any more as of 2020.
Or 1988, or 1992, or 2000, or 2008...
Nah, Carter was worse. He actually believed this shit and actually did stuff. Biden isn't president, he's a hollow shell for the people propping him up.
If Biden is just a puppet, then that is actually proof that he is worse. The President is supposed to believe their own rhetoric and do stuff to implement it. That is the entire reason they are voted into office in the first place.
Flaws of the average person from any generation are a consequence of what came before them, simply because of their upbringing being different whether it be politics or technology or rearing from parents.
From my perspective, and having been raised by basically anti Boomers, I disagree with some of this.
Nobody made the Boomers the way they are. They were raised right. Their parents took them to church, taught them useful skills, gave them a foundation to build on.
Instead they collectively bought in the lies of good times and muh equal, and chose to become lotus eaters.
My opinion I made above won't make sense to, or be agreed upon by, everyone because I'm someone who was born on the edge between generations. Our kind get screwed out of opportunities by both ends (like my parents did), so my outlook on the concept of "generational gaps" is negative.
It probably defeats the point of my argument but I don't like the defined ranges for each "generation". There's similarities among those in the ranges but it's not representative of every single person in that hard line range. It's only really become a part anthropology because the Industrial Revolution caused rapid changes in technology that affected culture to the point that people 20 years later aren't psychologically the same as those before them. Prior, things evolved so slowly you could have three or four generations of people be pretty much the same.
Good times make weak men
I was under ten when the Berlin wall fell. It had no meaning to me until I had relatives come to visit.
If something happened yesterday, it didn't happen if their objective needs it to have not happened.
Unless it can be used as a cudgel against my enemies to get what I want, then it happened and it might have happened even more than it did in reality.
I had a HS teacher who thought Carter was the best President ever. And that was a super weird opinion at the time. Now, I feel like it could pass.