How did boomers become this way? - Buy whatever you see on TV and spend all your money before you die

[The Ugly One]

Honestly I find Gen Xers more irritating than boomers these days. Men generally fit into two categories: reformed edgelords who pretend to be SJWs to try to be cool (which has always been a theme) or they fall into the “if I do absolutely nothing, maybe I’ll get everything I want,” which is fine if they didn’t get butthurt about their grand plan falling flat on its ass every time. Women are almost universally virtue signalers whether they’re on the right or left. Fried from decades of SSRIs, mood stabilizers, etc. has made them more fragile the older they get.

Ozzy is a Boomer. Fred Durst is Gen X.

 

[Basic Blonde Boy]

Honestly I find Gen Xers more irritating than boomers these days. Men generally fit into two categories: reformed edgelords who pretend to be SJWs to try to be cool (which has always been a theme) or they fall into the “if I do absolutely nothing, maybe I’ll get everything I want,” which is fine if they didn’t get butthurt about their grand plan falling flat on its ass every time. Women are almost universally virtue signalers whether they’re on the right or left. Fried from decades of SSRIs, mood stabilizers, etc. has made them more fragile the older they get.

Kinda agree with this...

From my experience Boomers' main issue is just being oblivious to everything, Gen X is more knowing, yet chooses not to do shit about things. Gen X is the generation most built on tv and Hollywood, and they pretty much have based their thinking around it. You can tell how tv, especially programs from the 2000s, have affected their thinking as they can be complete simps for the democrats and believe the party to be the smart scientist party while republicans are all bigoted tards in the South. Years of Stewart and Colbert echoing that blues are smart individuals have lead them to taking comedians as the #1 news source unironically. They especially get super defensive when it comes to criticism of Obungo or Biden, which is hilarious as they go all in to spit as much venom at their opposition as possible while claiming it is all good fun. They want to be the moderate individuals, yet cannot fathom anything but blue being popular, and by blue, I mean Neo-libs as even if they screech Bernie's shit, he is far too left for them.

Your description fits well, though I think it is more apt to say that they just go for whatever Hollywood promotes. They become hypocritical with the edgelord shit because they loved it when Hollywood said, or says they can. In the past it was acceptable, but now it is not so you get the reformed. They aren't even really reformed as I have been told 9/11 jokes are bad, but then those same people will talk about how Pete Davidson is their hero and the funniest because of 9/11 jokes. They are a generation of consumers who will clap for anything with Star Wars or Marvel attached to it. A lot of them do absolutely nothing yet expect things because they are just following Hollywood which tells them everything will be fine if you follow some approved politician left or right.

As for the women, I would go against your notion. The annoyance I have with them is that hey are wannabe activists and history buffs, but suck at both. They are activists in the same sense of the men you mentioned where they just sit and wait for what they want or scream into a void. Most are on the same Stewart high and just believe their beliefs are status quo and the smartest takes ever. As for the history buff part, they are big into history, but just take out small chunks. They look to rebel against the Nazis and know all the evil shit they did, but cant explain why Nazis were ever popular in Germany to begin with. They like picking out the evils to be advocates for groups, but never see the full picture as their history learning is just so they can sperg on FaceBook about some random ass Native group or Holocaust moment. Other than that, they are just trying to emulate some fictional #GirlBoss they saw in a movie or show.