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[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

If it helps to assuage your guilt at all, we have been living, inundated with corporate propaganda, for all our lives.

"Carbon footprint" is a great example; it's a Corporate guilt trip.

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/carbon-footprint-coined-by-big-oil-to-blame-you-for-climate-change

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Oh absolutely. The carbon footprint was bullshit from the oil companies to put the onus on individuals to fix it while not giving people any options. It was all bullshit. That being said, I do have some guilt. Or at least feel it. Less because I was making bad decisions and more of a "survivors guilt" kind of thing. That's not the right term, cause I'm going to die before the younger generations. But I feel guilt just because my child and millions of others will get a worse and worse end of the stick than I got just because of when they were born. This is why I argue with boomers about the difference between generations.

Like, you had the American dream fucking handed to you. Do you not feel some kind of guilt for getting a degree for $8k, a house for $35k, and a top of the line vette costing $4.5k? Even at the lower rates of pay, that's a fraction of the budget compared to today. If I had it that easy, I would absolutely feel bad for people coming up behind me. And yet, VERY few boomers acknowledge this, and that is why I'm so hostile to them.

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

"Generation Me" will never cop to their culpability. They're narcissists, ie to admit being wrong now would absolutely crumple their sense of identity. And we all know Boomers #1 rule is looking out for numero uno.

I'm not saying all Boomers are Captain Planet villains...but all Captain Planet villains were definitely Boomers.

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