Do you parents have health insurance? That is a recent technology that used to be covered by charity, ie the church. If they didn't have, now state sponsored, healthcare, they may have stuck around.
Were they raised in government schools and instructed 10hrs a day to doubt their religion and hate their ancestors? Government.
Were they constantly bombarded by propaganda encouraging a hedonistic lifestyle and liberalism? Technology.
Were they members of an insular community comprised of families that traced their lineage hundreds of generations in the same geographic location or were they the products of suburbs, globalism, and integration? Technology AND government.
One of my biggest little black pills is that people have entire careers dedicated to making my life more difficult. Schizophrenia diagnosis aside, the amount of time and effort that goes into breaking things so that they are inconvenient enough to get people to give up and us mainstream options is insane. Imagine the heights humanity would reach if our effort wasn't so bogged down.
People in the west have taken their creation mandate to care for animals to far. In many ways, they are treated like human beings with the same inherent value.
Pets, as cute or as useful as they are, are not part of the family. You should go out of your way to show them kindness and to care for them. But at the end of the day, they are possessions. The people who spend thousands of dollars on their pets misappropriate their resources. This kind of decadence is permissible in a flourishing, peaceful society but we can no longer afford such luxuries. If you have that kind of money, raise children.
The revelation of the Signal groups in Minneapolis should demonstrate this well. There might be mindless NPCs that are following their programming but there is a vast network of coordination and logistics that doesn't just crop up naturally.
If things were to evolve into a hot war, you wouldn't see a bunch of fudds suddenly develop the coordination and tactics that antifa use organically. There is a large power structure holding up these low level rioters that has been allowed to propagate. There are institutional backers that need to be weeded out.
This is what Drain the Swamp was really about. Trump 0.1 spoke a lot about this. During his first term, however, no draining was done. Now that we have Trump 2.0, he seems to be playing ball with the same swamp creatures he at one point promised to vanquish.
Don't have to create them whole cloth. No one would accuse Israel of sitting down and planning out the structure and tactics of Hamas. People who hate Israel exist and and all Israel has to do is continue to allow them to exist.
Traitors now want to do the same and face no consequences.
The "traitors now" are doing what the state wants them to. The rioters act with state authority backing them.
The last two protests that happened without deep state sponsorship were Jan 6th and Unite the Right....
It's not meaningless. It's not just that they have more NOW than younger generations. It's that they had more than the younger generations do when they were the same age.
My dad (not technically a boomer) bought a house after being in the workforce for less than 10yr for 25k while making $19 an hour with no degree or certifications. That's insane because most of us who have been in our careers with degrees aren't making 10x that but the average house price is 10x that. Even if you go for a cheap house, that's 100k. To keep the scale, you would have to be making $75 an hour.
The only thing I regret of my teenage years is not buying a house for $15,000