{"id":10256,"date":"2015-11-25T23:14:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T23:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/11\/25\/why-are-the-baby-boomers-desperate-to-make\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T23:14:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T23:14:04","slug":"why-are-the-baby-boomers-desperate-to-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/11\/25\/why-are-the-baby-boomers-desperate-to-make\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are the baby boomers desperate to make millennials hate ourselves? | Eleanor Robertson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/sep\/04\/why-are-the-baby-boomers-desperate-to-make-us-millennials-hate-ourselves?CMP=soc_3155'>Why are the baby boomers desperate to make millennials hate ourselves? | Eleanor Robertson<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/figsandnewtons.tumblr.com\/post\/128633486665\/why-are-the-baby-boomers-desperate-to-make\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">figsandnewtons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWith regional variations, millennials have absorbed our parents\u2019 world view. We consider these expectations reasonable, and we blame ourselves for not living up to them.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it\u2019s all a trick. The global conditions that enabled a middle-class existence are evaporating, and are being replaced by an economic system whose function is the transfer of wealth to the lucky few.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026the point of this ideology is to discipline young people\u2019s behaviour through weaponised self-loathing. Instead of demanding better, we engage in futile competition over crumbs. Instead of questioning why life often feels meaningless, why we feel so alienated and inadequate, we turn these beliefs inward. Instead of using this shared experience to build solidarity with each other, we feel shame.<\/p>\n<p>If all this is our own fault, what\u2019s the point?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are the baby boomers desperate to make millennials hate ourselves? | Eleanor Robertson figsandnewtons: \u201cWith regional variations, millennials have absorbed our parents\u2019 world view. We consider these expectations reasonable, and we blame ourselves for not living up to them. Of course, it\u2019s all a trick. The global conditions that enabled a middle-class existence are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/11\/25\/why-are-the-baby-boomers-desperate-to-make\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why are the baby boomers desperate to make millennials hate ourselves? | Eleanor Robertson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[869],"class_list":["post-10256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politics","post_format-post-format-link","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}