boomer culture: a brief gallery of their memes
ai-generated images taken as reality, rage against handouts, conspiracies about taylor swift, college football, the decent values of "old people," the woke specter, cursive, jordan peterson
a boomer comments on my post “stop masturbating or burn in hell”
look, let’s face it: the boomers won’t be with us for much longer. and i don’t mean physically. i mean mentally:
the boomer’s mental capacities are declining because he lives inside of a virtual reality. he is scrolling endlessly on facebook frantically sharing memes about judeo-christian values, the glories of capitalism, the might of the military, and trans people he’ll never see because he does not leave his home.
he is glued to youtube watching video after video about woke people, the great spectres of his old age.
the boomers will die and their memes will die with them. one day they will all be alone together in their virtual world, reading the memes of other boomers and the memes of bots, never knowing for sure which is which, not knowing what a bot is.
we will lose them forever then. they will be with us, but their minds will be consumed by the memes that define their lives.
i see these boomer memes as relics of a culture decaying, and for that reason, maybe the history nerd in me, I feel an impulse to preserve them.
i don’t preserve these relics in order to celebrate the boomers but rather in the hopes that our children might learn from their foolishness.
i think the boomers, locked away and slowly degenerating inside of a virtual reality consisting of facebook, cable news, and online porn, have achieved such extreme levels of isolation from the real world that they deserve to be immortalized before they disappear forever into the nothingness of the receding web.
who will look at their pages a hundred years from now? psychiatrists probably.
whether the future’s esteemed physicians will have solved the question by that point — what is the cause of the boomer’s illness? — is beyond the scope of this post. even so, in the spirit of conservation, please enjoy these memes from my facebook friends.
an elder gentleman
the AI generated images always get the boomer
an online activist
yet another AI generated image fools the tech-addicted boomer
a religious zealot
why don’t i unfollow these people?
well, most of them post these things publicly, so i don’t need to be friends with them actually. but there is just something fascinating about them from an anthropological perspective.
i’ll end with a quick story about my cousin, the third featured boomer.
he’s an older cousin of mine, and when i last saw him 9 years ago he talked my ear off about a charity he runs in the south.
the problem with charity, he explained, was that most non-profits just hand food out to kids for nothing.
“we do things differently,” he said. “i look at these kids and i say: you want something to eat? great! go grab a broom a mop up the floor, then we’ll talk. you know? we’re not going to teach these children that they just get stuff for free.”
the boomer mind seems to relish the hardships of life. i think the mentality of the boomer mostly stems from jealousy.
the boomer just wasn’t brave enough to ever live an authentic life. all he can do now is rage against the younger people who do have that courage while hoping to god that nothing gets better for poor people.