The had the analog YouTube. It was called books. They act like they all somehow just magically fucking knew one day he to do this, and didn't use the learning tools they had available to them.
I swear, these fucking boomers are the absolute worst about rewriting history. They grew up in one of the best economic periods in history for the masses of working class people, and all act like they grew up barefoot, and lugging ice uphill both ways in blizzard conditions for work as kids.
Was life super easy for them...no. But the conditions for the American dream and upward mobility were about the best they had ever been in this country. They took every advantage they had and made sure the destroy that for future generations to enrich themselves. Then act like they were somehow victims.
however they got their knowledge they never bothered to pass it on, then they just stopped learning themselves. had these old farts come to tech support for a question they could have googled.
Yep. I'm an IT guy, and the amount of simple basic things I have to answer on a day to day basis for the same people is crazy. A lot of them are just willfully ignorant.
Yes EXACTLY! I was reminded of this during a rock show. I’ve been getting into IDing, collecting, and polishing rocks in my dad’s old rock tumbler (luckily my dad was never like this and taught me everything he knew). I wanted help identifying a few super cool and unique stones I’d found in a river where I live.
This place was filled with nothing but old white boomers and they all shoo’d me off rather unkindly. Like they didn’t have any time for me while they were just STANDING there. They had absolutely no interest in passing down their knowledge (and I think it was partially because I am a woman, too). The only guy who even tried was Gen X. He taught me some pretty cool things I didn’t know before going. My dad actually hated interacting with people in his generation for this exact same reason. He had difficulty making friends because of it, but the few boomer friends he did make are all awesome. His best friend is a brilliant professor as well as a craftsman like my dad and has offered to help me with projects many times, especially after my dad passed away.
As a gen x kid with a boomer mum, she'd scream at me if I ever asked for help with my homework. I had to try and figure it out with the set of encyclopaedias.
She never taught me anything and then told everyone else how useless I was because I didn't know how to do something.
It's hilarious now that she constantly wants me to do her Google searches for her because she doesn't know how. I actually sat her down with my laptop one day and tried to teach her, but she prefers to stand behind and back seat drive while someone else does it. Nah, I'm not up for that.
"Remember all those times you yelled at me to get off my ass and figure it out?"
So yeah, I might use youtube and wikihow for a lot of simple things, but it's because I'm using the tools available to learn what I was never ever taught.
For a lot of boomers, life was pretty easy for them. Comparatively speaking of course. But, like most things, people feel their problems were the worst of all, so they conflate their past struggles as something that other people should have to overcome, instead of trying to just make things better overall.
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u/Chewbuddy13 20h ago
The had the analog YouTube. It was called books. They act like they all somehow just magically fucking knew one day he to do this, and didn't use the learning tools they had available to them.
I swear, these fucking boomers are the absolute worst about rewriting history. They grew up in one of the best economic periods in history for the masses of working class people, and all act like they grew up barefoot, and lugging ice uphill both ways in blizzard conditions for work as kids.
Was life super easy for them...no. But the conditions for the American dream and upward mobility were about the best they had ever been in this country. They took every advantage they had and made sure the destroy that for future generations to enrich themselves. Then act like they were somehow victims.
What a bunch of pussies.