why do old people lack self awareness?

[ArgonianVoter]

we've all been privy to the boomer experience, I'd like to know why you think they are they way they are.

What makes a boomer become so socially inept? so ignorant? so incapable of empathy, understanding or even basic intellectual thought or at the very least, common sense?

why do old people lack self awareness?

 

[slim]

What makes modern zoomers like that as well?

 

[Le'garde]

Lead poisoning

 

[Jesters]

Boomers were raised in the aftermath of World War 2 and Cold War. Their parents lived like there was no tomorrow, because there might not have been a tomorrow and it created a spoiled and entitled generation.

While every generation feels entitled to something, in the vast majority of cases, the generations before passed things along to their kids with expectation of them continuing the legacy. Then boomers got the idea, since they're in the best and most spoiled time in US history, they don't need to pass things on. They're entitled to what they have because they have it freely. They don't feel like they need to give things up because they've been all taken and no give, all the way to their 80s, where they're clinging to their assets and lives.

 

[Dr Cruel]

A brief US consumer product history:

1950s: Awesome toys, new household products
1960s: Indulgent hippie teen culture goodies
1970s: Fabulous family fare, cheap housing
1980s: Stock speculation, '50s nostalgia
1990s: Clinton era, dotcoms, '60 nostalgia
2000s: Bush era, real estate and banking scams
2010s: Obama era, massive expansion of entitlements
2020s: Fossils ruling government, entitlements running dry

The last 80 years have been tailored to serve the richest of the Boomer generation. They're not so much socially inept or ignorant as uncaring about anyone else - the Meathead mentality, as depicted on All in the Family where Boomers live like leeches off their parents and society while berating anyone who will listen for being ignorant, uneducated, racist scum.

Now Millennials are surpassing the Boomers in wealth. The wealthiest of them are pop socialist hypocrites, with their own screwy ideas on race, gender, climate change etc. These unemphatic, ignorant, stubbornly thick-headed jackasses now ridicule their equally unemphatic, ignorant, stubbornly thick-headed Boomer jackass predecessors for clinging to an older iteration of their own socialist stupidity, then stuff them into nursing homes and steal their assets. Meanwhile the old Left fascist socialism is evolving into a Marxist-friendly form of National Socialism.

Hope that helps.

 

[Apochrypha]

If Ättestupa was a real thing we should really bring it back. I think it would solve a lot of our current problems.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

Boomers are too old to care I think. Like you reach a point in your life where you say “idgaf” anymore.

Ättestupa

Looks it up, “ritual senicide”. That’s the first I’ve ever heard of that. I definitely might use that to tweak some old people on Meta. But if I said that around my relatives I would be screwed lol

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

i hate hate hate boomers in the grocery store. they always block isles, take forever to pick thing, and take forever to pay. and if there is an issue, they are the first to spend 10 minutes constantly complaining, while only repeating the same 2 things over and over.

 

[glue eater]

People form their conception of self in relation to others. Old people usually are alienated from young people and in many cases people in general, so they have no context for self-reflection. Who hasn't seen an old man trying to talk to the cashier because that's the only person he interacts with.

 

[Idiotron]

Why should they care?
They did their thing back in the day, they're already on the way out.
You will not care when you're 70 either.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

they just dont give a shit.
I personally cant wait to get dementia, ill be naked in a school zone waving a handgun around going "AAAAAAAAA, WHO TOOK MY PUDDING?!"

 

[Joe Swanson]

I miss when our old people were WW1/WW2 vets

 

[Tablet County]

Everybody trying to ascribe a societal reason for this while ignoring the most obvious one: your brain stops working right as you get older.

 

[YHWH's Strongest Soldier]

Bad personality traits tend to accumulate with age.

 

[MrTroll]

People just weren't meant to live past the age of 40*.

*I reserve the right to update this rule when I turn 40

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

why do old people lack self awareness?

we're aware we just don't give a fuck too

 

[karz]

You will not care when you're 70 either.

What an awful, shitty, entitled mindset to have.

 

[Vapor Sauce]

I'm not a fan of the boomers because I think they overplay shit to act like they had it rough when they were growing up when they didn't. So they cope and act like clowns towards younger people to justify it.

The hippie generation that cried and "fought" for civil rights now couldn't give a fuck about anyone else. Just make sure the medicare is paid for. Hypocrite faggots.

 

[Dropsies]

Because they're fucking stupid pieces of shit who should die (except for my beautiful, wonderful grandparents whom I love very much ). Gawd. If we shot all old people we could easily afford to give 50 billion more dollars to Israel.

What makes modern zoomers like that as well?

Also set all of the millenials born after 1988 on fire. You probably look back fondly on your memories of saying "desu" and whacking off to anime children on 2009 imageboards. Faggot.

Meanwhile the old Left fascist socialism is evolving into a Marxist-friendly form of National Socialism.

It makes me very hopeful for the political and economic state of the world right now, as Jaiden Smith would have said.

 

[Oliver Onions]

I think a lot of their behaviour stems from them being in no rush to get anywhere or do anything because almost everyone they ever knew is dead and the world is so different to what they knew in their prime that they may as well be on another planet.

Slight PL but at my first job when I was a teenager there was an old guy who would come in every shift and make the exact same joke to me. Every single shift. Everyone else bitched about how much of a nuisance he was but I always chatted with him because I figured it was probably the only social interaction he got most of the time and I felt sorry for him.

Their parents lived like their was no tomorrow, because there might not have been a tomorrow and it created a spoiled and entitled generation.

Incidentally I think this is also why zoomers are so insufferable. They also believe there's no hope for the future so they've surrendered to nihilism, consooming and abandoned societal norms.

I don't know if they're right or wrong, but I don't really blame them for feeling that way: if you live on your phone it's easy to believe we're completely fucked.