why do old people lack self awareness?

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They're old people. The world feels alien to them, they're staring down death's barrel, their culture has been dissolved in a vat of acid. Old people have always lost their filter as they've aged as far as I can tell because there's always some element of experience teaching you that contrived pleasantries are a waste of time and hard truths need to be told sometimes. With the boomers, though, they have one foot in an actual real, sensible culture that once existed and another in modern clown world, so they're their own particular brand of insane that exacerbates all of this. Their ego can't take the hit that admitting that they brought the world to this sorry state would bring, so they externalize all the guilt on the younger generations. 'These crazy kids, with their gender nonsense and rioting'. Millenials/GenX do the same thing to Zoomers - 'wow they're retarded because all they do is look at their phone'. Well, who was retarded enough to give their fucking kids cellphones instead of being a parent? At least boomers are leery of such things and often speak out about kids being on brainrotting technology 24/7.

It's really a tale as old as time: nobody wants to examine their own sins. The end result is complete delusion and disconnect. We spend more time than ever navel-gazing as a society but we never take a critical eye to ourselves, it's always soft, positive 'wow, I'm discovering myself, wow I'm giving myself SPACE'. 'I'm learning to love ME'. YOU SHOULDN'T. You suck, we all suck, its what humans do. Find out something about you that sucks and try and fix it. It's so much easier to search for motes in your brother's eye though, so that's what we do on an individual, generational, and societal scale.
 
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Jesters dijo:
Boomers were raised in the aftermath of World War 2 and Cold War. Their parents lived like their was no tomorrow, because there might not have been a tomorrow and it created a spoiled and entitled generation.

While every generation feels entitled to something, in the vast majority of cases, the generations before passed things along to their kids with expectation of them continuing the legacy. Then boomers got the idea, since they're in the best and most spoiled time in US history, they don't need to pass things on. They're entitled to what they have because they have it freely. They don't feel like they need to give things up because they've been all taken and no give, all the way to their 80s, where they're clinging to their assets and lives.
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This, and because they were a huge demographic, everybody pandered to them
 
glue eater dijo:
People form their conception of self in relation to others. Old people usually are alienated from young people and in many cases people in general, so they have no context for self-reflection. Who hasn't seen an old man trying to talk to the cashier because that's the only person he interacts with.
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Very true.

I'm an old Gen X'er. And yes, it's awfully easy to fall into the trap of solitude and isolation as you get older. Nothing wrong with enjoying a bit of solitude, but you've got to balance it out with some participation in activities that include interactions with others.

Get out and do some fun shit with other people.
 
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Oliver Onions dijo:
Slight PL but at my first job when I was a teenager there was an old guy who would come in every shift and make the exact same joke to me. Every single shift. Everyone else bitched about how much of a nuisance he was but I always chatted with him because I figured it was probably the only social interaction he got most of the time and I felt sorry for him.
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I don't know how old you are but there's a pretty big difference in the crazy old boomers that would come in and tell crazy stories when I worked customer service as a teenager and the whiny, self-entitled, adult children boomers I've been dealing with over the last several years at my current job.

I fucking hate most of them so much. For every one, cool chill boomer you get fucking ten whiny, miserable childlike assholes who cry because you can't do impossible things or they completely fucking ignore everything you tell them about the expensive shit you just installed and throw a temper tantrum when they break it doing all the things you told them not to do. They just spend their days sitting in front of the tv obsessing about the colour of their walls or having nervous breakdowns because they noticed their tiles are slightly uneven. They're useless ridiculous people that actively make the world a worse place just by existing.
 
Grub dijo:
I don't know how old you are but there's a pretty big difference in the crazy old boomers that would come in and tell crazy stories when I worked customer service as a teenager and the whiny, self-entitled, adult children boomers I've been dealing with over the last several years at my current job.
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That was just one example that came to mind, I've dealt with plenty other obtuse old people through my life and I just don't see it as a big deal. Unless what they are doing is actively causing me problems I do whatever I need to do and get on with my day.
 
Literally ask myself this every shift. I had some stupid old bitch forget her fucking CANE. You don't need it then, Muriel you dumb cunt.

I get chewed out by these fuckers every other day yet they lack basic survival awareness and forget their shit. Be it newly bought or their own damn stuff. Me and my coworkers rightfully mock them after closing. I wish Covid wiped these ones out. No i don't care about why or how they became this way--get the fuck out of my sight and don't talk to me. The old men are okay. It's the old bitty women I have more vitriol for tbh due to sheer numbers of forcefully interacting with their dumbasses.
 
Dagoth AMOGUS dijo:
Boomers are too old to care
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Those from the Depression era became used to hardship and sacrifice from childhood.

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Boomers are a youth culture. They think they're teenagers and never 'sacrifice' for anyone.

If they go over that cliff, they're going to be forced over, and by people as vapid as they are.
 
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If I could remember who I am, where I am or what I was doing I'd kick your little ass and teach you some self awareness.

How did I get here? What year is it?
 
It could be the dementia, but that's optimistic.
 
Have you considered the possibility that maybe it's actually younger people who are overly self aware, to a pathological degree?

That might be why nowadays you can't ever have anything that's emotionally genuine, almost everything is tinged with irony and "Hey isn't this weird? This sure is weird.", because your gen Zs and younger millennials are too busy engaging in meta analysis of themselves to ever be able to take things seriously. Meanwhile previous generations grew up just doing what they do and didn't spend so much time ruminating.

I recall saying that to another person about the older generations (that they just don't invest as much energy in self-assessing), and that person seemed to believe constant neurotic self-examination is automatically a good thing, like it's a sign of progress and enlightenment that we obsessively try to roll over and dissect everything about ourselves, especially ourselves in relation to whatever we conceive as "normal" .

I don't agree with that, I think it can be really detrimental to a person's mental well being and experience of life, and a lot of times it's not even that useful since a person's view of themselves is often warped vs. how others see them. It's more paralyzing and anxiety inducing than constructive.

Either way these older people might not be as self aware, but they made it to the age they are so obviously whatever they do has worked in their world up until now.

Basically, I think maybe self aware young people are actually the cucks, and they hate on the boomers because the boomers don't care; they adhere to basic social conventions and do whatever they have to to not die, and otherwise everyone else can deal with it. Very American, just as god intended it.
 
karz dijo:
What an awful, shitty, entitled mindset to have.
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Why is it entitled?
You lived your life, you did your thing, you raised the next generation, now it's your time to chill out and not care.
It's easy to be passionate in your 20's and 30's but the older you get, the more tired you are and personally, I think we should let the old people retire and live in peace while we run things.
 
Seeing wigger zoomers makes me feel like a boomer too and i am not even that old.

i understand a lot of millenials have a lot of hang ups about their parents seeing how much divorce rates skyrocketed in the 80s and 90s as well as very annoying media fads that boomers always fell for but i feel like my generation is next on the chopping block as far as being blamed for stuff we had no real control over and considered uncool by social media kids who think the world only started when they were born.
 
I have a hard time getting into the boomer hate. There are a lot of fucking stupid boomers but my own generation is pretty close towards winning that contest. Zoomies don't have the benefit of experience on their side and often conflate their doomerism with intelligence.
 
LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] dijo:
Seeing wigger zoomers makes me feel like a boomer too and i am not even that old.

i understand a lot of millenials have a lot of hang ups about their parents seeing how much divorce rates skyrocketed in the 80s and 90s as well as very annoying media fads that boomers always fell for but i feel like my generation is next on the chopping block as far as being blamed for stuff we had no real control over and considered uncool by social media kids who think the world only started when they were born.
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I think I'm catching your drift, but it isn't windy enough, you wanna open up the mouth-fart can a little more so we can smell something besides your bland response?
 
Dr Cruel dijo:
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Those from the Depression era became used to hardship and sacrifice from childhood.

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Boomers are a youth culture. They think they're teenagers and never 'sacrifice' for anyone.

If they go over that cliff, they're going to be forced over, and by people as vapid as they are.
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Yeah, that's ugly.

But, maybe you should stop worrying about past generations, and work on yourself.

You're going to get old too one day.
 
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