The difference I’m seeing in people below the age of 40 is that we talk politics openly, and we know who the bad guys are (the billionaires and their lackeys). We know that the billionaire’s, and their corporations, have been extracting our wealth for decades, that healthcare and higher education are scams, that we can’t trust anything the establishment media says.

Again I’m just thinking about publications like Mother Earth News and so on. My memories of the boomers is that they seemed to talk politics, and talk a LOT about it. Many dropped out of the fight and became yuppies, I guess. Some continued to fight. Some mellowed out and gave up I guess - turned inward and became “pillow sitters” as I’ve heard them described and just working on their own enlightenment or whatever.

I don’t know. I guess my point is that we’ll see if it’s any different with subsequent generations. At one point, I thought Gen X might be even more fiery than the boomers because we were far more fucked than they ever were, and right from the jump. That turned out not to be the case. I personally don’t think it will be any different with Y or Z or alpha. Things might be even MORE blunted because you have more ways to blunt mass movements than ever before - far more distractions, far more ways to keep people isolated and atomized than the system ever had before.