We all still live in and struggle with the baby boomer mindset and the generation itself at this time. Now, not all of them are that way, I understand, but many of them are indeed. They fail to look beyond their own experiences and think and yet accuse others who actually "think outside the box" of not doing so. 

That reminds me of being at family gatherings years ago. I was told that I needed to diversify and was discouraged from any discussion of religion or politics. In a funny twist one time though, without maybe my realizing it, I brought one of my uncles full circle back to a religious debate. 

Does anyone know of or are there here any truly sane baby boomers? 

Matthew and Gladius' recent Inquisitors podcast made me think about this. I did not realize until Matthew mentioned it that baby boomers do personify corporations and various entities due to their taking things personally. That makes me think now as well that they may also tell the younger generations to not take things personally, but then they do so themselves.

Many of them divorced as well as the other things being left with their legacy that affect all of us today. What do we do since they do make it hard to follow the Fourth Commandment in that case then? 

The world has always been in constant change, as Heraclitus said: No man ever steps in the same river twice.

But... Before the Industrial Revolution, the world changed slowly. If you lived in the 10th century AD, the world would probably have been very similar all your life, not without change, but very similar.

But since the Industrial Revolution, and even more since Globalization, the world is changing faster and faster. Not only is the world completely different now than in the 50s... but it's even completely different now than in the 90s.


That's why the clash between a boomer and a zoomer is the biggest.

The world has always been in constant change, as Heraclitus said: No man ever steps in the same river twice.

But... Before the Industrial Revolution, the world changed slowly. If you lived in the 10th century AD, the world would probably have been very similar all your life, not without change, but very similar.

But since the Industrial Revolution, and even more since Globalization, the world is changing faster and faster. Not only is the world completely different now than in the 50s... but it's even completely different now than in the 90s.


That's why the clash between a boomer and a zoomer is the biggest.

This is true but is "too much change too soon" really natural and healthy for us human beings? I definitely say "No!" and I believe all of this "constant change just for the sake of change" (without any regard for the consequences of those changes) is what's mostly contributing to the continuous decline in mental health worldwide.

They used to call it "future shock" but these changes are forced on all of us, so much so that most people in public (when they should practice communication skills) have become "cold, soul-less phone zombies" and this is especially true for teenagers and younger adults who don't remember life before cell phones and the internet everywhere. The young people at least have some sort of excuse for acting like "cold, soul-less phone zombies" because that's all they know. They don't have a frame of time reference to remember back 20 or 30 + years when things were much different. Plus it was forced on them in schools and in the workplace so they don't know any better and you can't miss what you never knew or experienced. So the only kind of people who make me sick in public are the older people who should know better but still act like "cold, soul-less phone zombies." They have no excuse to behave that way in public. I see it's mostly women who act like that but I'll see even old men displaying that kind of anti-social behavior. This is why I only go out in public when I have to.

Some day all of this tech stuff is going to come back and bite us all on the behind and we will all deserve it. I sometimes think a worldwide cyber attack for a week or two would be a very good thing because it would force these "cold, soul-less phone zombies" out of their mental stupors.

We were not meant to live with "constant change just for the sake of change"  and "too much change too quickly." There has to be some sort of tipping point where many of us have got to take a stand and say "No more!" I wonder when that time will come. Hopefully it will come within my lifetime but I don't see that happening.

After all, most of the world declared war over 80 years ago on the guy who wanted "a fixed pole" in society that people can depend on and who was against all of this "constant change". Now we have no "fixed pole"  but instead (with these constant changes) we have mostly just constant frustration, confusion, aggravation, uncertainty, and desperation. I hope someday people will realize what we have lost. It took less than 20 years to turn most of the public into "cold, soul-less phone zombies". And they told me growing up that the future was going to be wonderful. That was one of the biggest lies I was told.

So all I can do is keep my circle small and put my trust in God. How any people can be "humanists" and put their faith in human beings rather than in God truly baffIes me!  I doubt there is no changing this way of life short of a worldwide cyber attack. Who knows?

This is true but is "too much change too soon" really natural and healthy for us human beings? I definitely say "No!" and I believe all of this "constant change just for the sake of change" (without any regard for the consequences of those changes) is what's mostly contributing to the continuous decline in mental health worldwide.

They used to call it "future shock" but these changes are forced on all of us, so much so that most people in public (when they should practice communication skills) have become "cold, soul-less phone zombies" and this is especially true for teenagers and younger adults who don't remember life before cell phones and the internet everywhere. The young people at least have some sort of excuse for acting like "cold, soul-less phone zombies" because that's all they know. They don't have a frame of time reference to remember back 20 or 30 + years when things were much different. Plus it was forced on them in schools and in the workplace so they don't know any better and you can't miss what you never knew or experienced. So the only kind of people who make me sick in public are the older people who should know better but still act like "cold, soul-less phone zombies." They have no excuse to behave that way in public. I see it's mostly women who act like that but I'll see even old men displaying that kind of anti-social behavior. This is why I only go out in public when I have to.

Some day all of this tech stuff is going to come back and bite us all on the behind and we will all deserve it. I sometimes think a worldwide cyber attack for a week or two would be a very good thing because it would force these "cold, soul-less phone zombies" out of their mental stupors.

We were not meant to live with "constant change just for the sake of change"  and "too much change too quickly." There has to be some sort of tipping point where many of us have got to take a stand and say "No more!" I wonder when that time will come. Hopefully it will come within my lifetime but I don't see that happening.

After all, most of the world declared war over 80 years ago on the guy who wanted "a fixed pole" in society that people can depend on and who was against all of this "constant change". Now we have no "fixed pole"  but instead (with these constant changes) we have mostly just constant frustration, confusion, aggravation, uncertainty, and desperation. I hope someday people will realize what we have lost. It took less than 20 years to turn most of the public into "cold, soul-less phone zombies". And they told me growing up that the future was going to be wonderful. That was one of the biggest lies I was told.

So all I can do is keep my circle small and put my trust in God. How any people can be "humanists" and put their faith in human beings rather than in God truly baffIes me!  I doubt there is no changing this way of life short of a worldwide cyber attack. Who knows?

I just got back from walking at a park.  There aren't phone zombies there.  If you go hiking you don't see them either. Are you sure you aren't just paying attention to people who have their phone and are forgetting to see all the other non zombies?

And millennials are stuck in between. What would you say about them?

I think they differ more than boomers depending on the country. I don't know enough about millennials in the US to say something about them.

Zoomer has less real world exposure than millennials but gen A will have even less than zoomers. I find that millennials tend to be more brainwashed by psyops and following the current thing but most secular people are like that so..

It's hard to say. I'm a zoomer and I've seen my peers get brainwashed by the teachers and public school system. They may be worse than millenials since they've been exposed more to the wokeism in public schools. I found it strange when I was in high school and the teachers were openly anti-Trump and political and I wondered to myself how it was weird and this was in Canada!

I personally think boomers don't understand things like inflation and how things are becoming worse economically for young people. I tried explaining to them how things are not the way they are anymore and they put their heads in the sand and go one with their materialistic life.

Yeah it just doesn't click for them. Like the implications don't hit them.