THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER - 134 - BOOMERS & DOOMERS

It’s easy to blame, easy to try to pin something on someone, something, find the silver bullet for some problem. A lot of people look at the Baby Boomers as being the primary cause of our society’s problems. I was attracted to that thinking, but it quickly became apparent that this was too simplistic. Probably a further echo of the boomer tendency towards narcissism, “Of course the Boomers are the problem, the Boomers are everything!” I was talking to my therapist yesterday about how there is this generational skip in terms of prepping the next generation to get ready for life & this hiccup causes further hiccups down the line. It’s easy to pin this generational problem on the boomers, but their parents raised them & their parents before them did the same & you can keep going into history. This is why I think that blame & root causes aren’t a good focal point, instead a solid methodology is needed. People love to hang their frustrations on a thing & destroy that thing. But, the world is much more complicated than that. It’s never one thing, it’s always a complicated web. This just requires a different way of looking at the world & yourself that extends far beyond the weird passive, consumerist individualism that is cultivated in the American tax cow. This mentality is hard to escape as it is reinforced constantly by almost everything. Without a strong, healthy methodology you are fucked in this country, probably the whole world. This way of understanding the world can be easily dismissed as conservative, & it definitely has aspects of conservatism, but you also have to have flexibility or liberalism to deal with a constantly changing world full of people you don’t know. This is why I am completely sold on neither conservatism or liberalism & see aspects of those as good strategies for moving forwards. By removing the blame impetus, it’s very difficult for me to get carried away with any of the “sky is falling” scenarios that people love to run with. My own methodology grew out of DIY Punk with the idea that we could create our own culture. I got carried away with this idea & it was encouraged by my working at the Library & then the internet really hit its stride (2000-2012) & I was able to look up anything I was interested in. I quickly went too far from Punk, basically as soon as I started down this road, but I also learned that I needed to go back in & sell people on these ideas. Or best, I needed to keep people abreast of these discoveries - that’s why blogging has been great. 

x SEAN

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