• orbitz@lemmy.ca
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        21 days ago

        Exactly, just watch early 90s Simpson’s older teenagers, meh. That summed up gen x in a lot of media.

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      21 days ago

      That’s just a side effect from the belief that nothing important was fixable because the interests that kept them that way were too entrenched.

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      21 days ago

      It’s more apathy than complacency, after years of our cynicism being fully vindicated. A cynic is just a disappointed optimist.