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How did Gen X/Millennials failed at tackling the political issues they criticised in the 90's (jlai.lu)

submitted 5 days ago by Ziggurat@jlai.lu to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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In the 90's a lot of popular song were pretty political, remember Killing in the name of and even the skate pop-punk has pretty popular political song's (Offspring, Blink Green-day). Actually political movies were also quite big in the 90's/00's (French Masterpiece La haine, or the whole work of Michael Moore).

I would expect to see that the people who were teens/young adult at the time would tackle all these issues 20-30 years latter when they'll finally take the power and the reality is that everything got worse, than even talking about-it make you sound like a radical, and that the gen-X/Millennials totally failed to change something.

What happened ? and how did we fail ?

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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Don't look at me, I died of dysentery.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

American Dad had an Oregon Trail episode, and hit on the idea that spending so much time playing a game where your party just randomly dies from shit like dysenteryprobably has a measurable effect on that cohorts psyche...

Like how old school kids stories were brutal as fuck to get kids used to real life, and the opposite is the Disneyfication of always ending "happily ever after".

Younger generations expect everything to work out and good to win and evil to fail automatically. Which I think is why so many people refuse to move past "raising awareness".

They legitimately believe that if enough people are aware of a problem, it'll just stop being a problem on its own

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

"Karma will get them!"

No it won't, Kayden. There is no such thing.