Main Character Syndrome
The Boomers haven't finished changing the world yet
This is a sobering reminder that the Boomers haven’t finished increasing the difficulty setting for the succeeding generations.
The reality of the boomer phenomena is that they are the main characters of history and we just have to wait our turn. Every decision made for the past 60 years was at the behest of maximizing the boomer experience. In their time America had such unprecedented wealth that there were literally no wrong decisions, they could only fail upwards.
When boomers got uppity about Vietnam, which we were about to win, we did they do? We pulled out. When boomers were in the working class economy, unions were heavily rigged to maximize wages and benefits while COLs were abysmally low. This was the golden age of the American middle class.
During this time they saved and heavily invested into assets and equities, guess what happened after that?
We went off the gold standard, started endlessly printing money, and every fortune 500 that they had stock in acquired regulatory capture of their industries. They then offshored to the global 3rd world to maximize profits, which in turn maximized evaluations, which in turn maximized boomer stocks.
When their kids stopped having children what did they do? They imported endless hordes of mindless drones to work below market wages to keep the economy going.
When a housing crisis caused by overlending to retards and immigrants (done to maximize boomer stock value) threatened the security of the banks managing their portfolios what did they do? They bailed the banks out.
When a virus with a 0.001% death rate to everyone EXCEPT old people what did they do? They shut the entire world down and printed more money than ever before to keep their portfolios afloat.
Never forget that the stimmy checks only came after we injected trillions into the stock market to keep it afloat.
Every. Single. Decision. Has been at their behest.
The tragedy of the boomer is that they have literally no vision beyond themselves.
No other generation was able to rig the world in a way they did.
No other generation holds the wealth of nations in the palms of their hands, and what will they do with it? They will spend every cent on health and hospice care so they can drag themselves by cane and IV bag onto their 30th cruise before dying as they recite the mantra of their time “I was at woodstock...”
“Data from the Federal Reserve highlights that when the average Boomer household turned 35 years old, the generation already controlled 21% of all U.S. wealth. For context, Millennials owned just 3% of the nation’s wealth at that exact same age milestone.”
That’s the situation with which we’re faced. There is nothing we can do about what happened in the past. But what we can do, and what we should do, is reject every value, every assumption, and every belief that the Boomers bought into, and with which they devastated both American society and Western civilization.
We can’t fix or bring back the world that they changed, but we can rebuild what’s left into something that approximates it. This will involve rejecting GenX apathy and nihilism, Millennial neo-boomerisms, GenZ sensitivity, and returning to a Depression-era mindset.
And it can definitely be done.
I personally know people in Australia who´s boomer parents in their late 70s - 80s own 5 - 10 houses each with a 7 figure price tag on them and refuse to help their kids pay for a deposit for their first home to get their foot on the ladder. They are literally stuck in limbo until their parents kick the bucket, but alas, it seems Pina Coladas and Hawaiian shirts seem to make them cheat death.
Already started. Foregone what shadow version of luxe life to pour everything into the legacy project. The focus on the grandkids’ lives.
The family boomers don’t speak to me anymore. Addition by subtraction. Rejecting judeo-satanry was the catalyst. But I remember the anger beneath the confusion when I finally acquired some means and showed no more interest in their perverse grasping solipsism than when I was sleeping on a basement floor. The misconception was that disinterest in grotesque materialism was a cope and now I was in the club. God gave me the means to do better. Holding up that moral mirror burns their sold-off souls.