I’m tired of living through “interesting times”.
“Shouldn’t have wished to live in more interesting times” -Tav, Baldur’s Gate 3
That’s the point though - it wasn’t a good thing
Young me in 2012 “I want to live through interesting times” 🤔 rather than being bored. Little did I know.
Except it’s not interesting anymore. It’s been a cycle of the same bullshit over and over again.
Its getting uncomfortably accurate
Something something meme seized by the state for redistribution
The world ended like sixty times already this decade.
The screaming twenties just have no brakes.
41 years old and I’ve lived through 4 once in a lifetime economic events, one impending societal collapse (Y2K), a global pandemic, and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. I vote Giant Meteor 2025, just get it over with already.
I thought it was the dotcom crash and great recession, in addition to the ones you mentioned war on “terror” and pandemic.
2000 dot com crash, 2008 housing bubble, 2020 COVID recession, 2025 tariff downturn and looming crash. (That’s not including the recessions from the 80’s and 90’s)
I count Afghanistan and Iraq separately, they were two very different wars and fought for different reasons. Afghanistan was because of 9/11, Iraq was oil and regime change.
There’s a few genocides in there too. Also I sleep in an abandoned house for like 6mo after the housing bubble burst. Whole neighborhoods where a light never turned on. All speculation market.
Honestly I could have written a novel worth of things, but I wanted to keep it short.
GenX here… first time?
We got lulled into thinking everything was going to be fine. Then we got whacked with all the tech outsourcing, dot-bomb, 9/11…etc. but at least we had cheaper college first and that gave us a foot in the door without as much of the crushing college debt that millennials got.
Being born in the early 80’s… we’ve seen a lot.
Correct. When I was living in Reno there was a doomsday DATE people decided on. It was a huge thing. A bunch of people just bought in. People euthanizing their pets, just madness. Day came. Nothing happened. It’s amazing what people fall for. It’s very sad.
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Desperate people are the easiest to sucker. That’s why so many scams target people looking for jobs.
I still remember when crackpots thought the world was gonna end in 2012. When that time came. I just looked at my cat and said ‘hey kitty, we’re still here!’
I’m pretty sure we did all died that day. We’re clearly in hell at this point.
Meanwhile gen-x: So have we. Plus growing up during the Cold War, Iran hostage crisis, and 9/11.
Yes it sucks.
You could afford a house and got a free or cheap education
The state has sold off everything in your lifetime to keep your taxes low, including housing. Which you bought and now own.
Millennials are generation rent with a government renting back what it sold as taxes rise.
And the cold war is still going on, what is it about Gen X that makes them think it stopped. Putin is at war in Europe right now. The cold war only ever paused.
Proxy wars didn’t stop with Vietnam, the cold war didn’t stop with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
You get to experience the events of the world while being comparatively rich.
You got to experience the only decade or so without a cold war threat while millennials experience the threat of Russia and an increasing threat from China.
And millennials were told as children the world would burn if we did nothing. Gen X and the Boomers did nothing.
Yes it sucks.
But you had it good, and politically you’ve fucked us recently. After being previously politically apathetic.
We’ve got a world to repair and it remains to be seen if Millennials will actually move past apathy into fixing it with Gen Z or continuing to fuck it up like Gen Z.
You still had to be not poor to take advantage of all that. College was cheaper, but nowhere near cheap. Homes were possible, but many lost them in the crash. It wasn’t like the boomer and earlier days where you could support a family to retirement on one job needing only a GED.
Cheer up, maybe the next “end of days” will be the real one!
