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Taking advice from boomers will have you fighting with yourself
Can you learn a lot from old people? Yes, of course you can. Does that mean that you should take their advice? No, it definitely fucking doesn’t, and there is one generation of old people that you should watch rather than listen to. I’m speaking about boomers.
Boomers are out of touch with what’s going on and they don’t accept who they are or what they’ve created. Apparently taking responsibility for your actions wasn’t invented until very recently. So taking their advice isn’t advised unless you want like being lost in life.
The internet came so we know they talk shit
In the past people had to listen to their elder’s advice because it was harder to find good influences elsewhere. If you were lucky, maybe you had a cool teacher or a friend with a smart parent.
Nowadays we have good influences everywhere online so we can do our own learning instead of listening to someone who’s lying through their teeth. That’s not to say those people don’t exist online.
Most people are pretty out of it, and it doesn’t change just because they’re a little older. The weird people that are in their 20s now are going to be 60+ one day, and they’re still going to be delusional. Those people are usually the most keen to pass on…