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Jan 26Liked by John Sweeney (Scrumpmonkey)

A lot of the sentiments in this article have impacted my own life. In a complete rebuke to the Boomer mindset, I quit working in front of a computer earlier in my life, started a farm and had some kids with my dear wife. In a desperate bid to rebuild a multigenerational family really.

Was it the right choice? I think so. But it's always a struggle to let go and forgive my Boomer parents who barely want to be a part of these new lives we have created.

All while they worry endlessly what will happen to them as no one wants to be a part of their lives too.

It's a heartbreaking stalemate really, and we've all been subject to this grand social experiment so no one is to blame.

It's why a think about the Amish so much. Sure they struggle with Modernity too, but at least they still know what's wrong with it.

Thanks for this piece.

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Jan 27Liked by John Sweeney (Scrumpmonkey)

Great ending to that piece. I feel cringe for the boomers based on that ending, ah well...

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A lot of this sounds like the world that the Fabian Society envisioned a century ago, where your life and society as a whole was planned around materialism and abstract individualism. With the predictable result that all sentiment and social norms get torn down in the process.

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Jan 25Liked by John Sweeney (Scrumpmonkey)

Very good, the Boomers themselves being victims of the revolution and the implementation of the NWO, were almost inevitably doomed to eat their own, as all revolutionaries end up doing, consciously or not.

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Jan 24Liked by John Sweeney (Scrumpmonkey)

This was fantastic.

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It surprises many how recent these generational labels and the bundle of signifiers they represent truly is. As someone born in the mid-sixties, I can honestly say nobody I knew ever held any such generational consciousness; we knew of 'Baby Boomers' because it was a demonstrable demographic phenomenon, but the first time I heard the term 'Generation X' (other than the rather obvious and cheesy pop punk band) was not until well into this millennium, when the caricature of the 'Millennial' was inserted into the popular culture and we started to ask where we stood in the schema.

As much as I agree that the New World Order began immediately post-war, its most important functions were happening in the shadows, with the creation of the CIA and the adoption of Tavistock mass psychological interventions - it was barely able to function sustainably beyond elite academic, cultural and political levels until the technology caught up. 60's counter-culture already seemed dusty and artificial by the time I entered secondary school, and punk was essentially a parody of the manipulated intergenerational conflict. "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" said Johnny Rotten, and we knew exactly what he meant.

The smartphone was the bomb; with that, the whole 'woke Millennial' circus could come into full swing and and the demonisation of the Boomer strategically deployed. Perhaps Q appeals to them for the reasons you indicate, because they were the first generation subjected to mass manipulation in a Che Guevara t-shirt, oblivious to the string-pullers, and remain equally clueless under the infinitely more sophisticated management of the algorithm. But at least they did not outsource their consciousness completely.

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Q is a propaganda PSYOP. However:

"The Plan", if you check the source material, is:

Gather information, esp names, businesses, and money

Draw connections between parties

Archive the information offline

Spread the information, esp. via memes

Any other "Plan" is due to a counter-propaganda PSYOP designed to get you to read op-eds about Q, and dismiss it as kookery, instead of investigating the source material and making up your own mind. This is COINTELPRO-101.

This won't matter, in the end.

Enjoy the show.

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Jan 24·edited Jan 24

This is all very good, but how might we win the boomer (and some of their resources) to our side? We don't even need them to align with us on much, but at the least to present them a narrative that is better for us that they believe than whatever the regime pushes on them.

I suppose the problem is not new, even if we had some formulation, we'd lack the resources to push it with the necessary frequency, reach, and hypnotic quality to bear fruit against media reinforcing their existing tendencies, to which they are addicted. Still, I wonder if there isn't something more we could do.

This article which tells us why we shouldn't hate them is a good first step in figuring out how to sympathize with them. Is there any way we can help them redeem themselves, even in part, before they are damned to bear their regretful fate for good?

Though perhaps none of that is even necessary to what is most important in what you are saying here. Simply recognizing the rightful enemy was never them in and of themselves sets our sights straight regardless of the boomers' fate.

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