@BarelyEagle @TrevorGoodchild No, they lived it: the boomers constructed their world on the same logic. If you want to get anywhere, you had to have some thing that they kept telling you would never be important and combine it with some other thing that they kept telling you meant nothing, otherwise you get stuck or die.

You know how many boomers were involved in the "Health" textbooks that said to only eat bread and not meat and that the most important thing ever was self-esteem? And then it turns out that school didn't mean a damn thing and that a supposedly unhealthy obsession with computers turned into the only thing I do that is worth any money?