I Am So Tired

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joanspoliticalposts:

This is a big part of why so many boomer grandparents are clueless about what their kids and grandkids are going through now. They got on the gravy train at an early age, along with pretty much their whole graduating class. They’ve spent their entire lives among a peer group that rode the gravy train. They’ve retired comfortably. They don’t understand what it’s like for the younger generation.

You know, in a funny way I think this is also why our generation is so bitter about the change. It’s not like life has ever been easy. Every single generation before the boomers had to struggle to make ends meet. The great depression, the industrial revolution, freaking settlers. That’s not even bringing in slavery. But the 50s generation was different. For once, the youth could just go for it and trust that they would succeed. Wages were good, public education was a thing, there were labor laws in place and infrastructure through all fifty states. 

They grew up in the golden age of America’s economy, and told the stories of their success to their children and grandchildren with the assurance that nothing had changed. We grew up thinking that nothing had changed. That we could just go out and do the same thing our grandparents had and see the same results. The circumstances that caused their generation to be as successful as they were, were a complete fluke. The peak of a cycle, perhaps. We are back at the start of the cycle now, and it hurts as bad as it does because we are coming off a society wide economical high.

I’d like to add another perspective made in response to this tweet.

Mikki’s right, and I want to acknowledge that, but I want to make a different point.

It wasn’t a fluke that that was true for white people. It wasn’t the peak of a cycle. I mean, part of it was the post-war economic boom, and we won’t see that kind of war again, so we won’t see that kind of boom again. But part of it was that the marginal tax rates on rich people were very high, and part of it was that unions were strong, so we had good governmental social programs and jobs paid well and treated people reasonably. The Boomers actively decided that those things shouldn’t be true anymore, forgetting that those things were partially the cause of their own success, and took them away from us.

Don’t forget that immediately World War II, congress passed the GI Bill. For millions of veterans, it guaranteed low interest mortgages - which effectively created the suburbs as we know them today - and also granted stipends for veterans to attend college or get some kind of work training.

Except…not all veterans. The GI Bill was deliberately written so that it excluded over a million black veterans that also fought for their country in World War 2 (in segregated units, mind you).

The wealth and prosperity of boomers was in large part thanks the GI Bill. It provided state-funded education and low mortgage rates allowing white WW II veterans to buy homes (often being the first members of their family to do so!). This provided the very foundation for the inherited wealth of many white families to this day.

The prosperity that so many Americans look fondly back on as ‘the good old days’ was literally built on strong unions, high wages, high taxation on the profits of corporations (which had made a killer during the war and the post-war rebuilding years), taxpayer funded education, and government guaranteed home-ownership…and the calculated exclusion of black Americans who worked just as hard and made the same sacrifices.

tvandfilm:

“Is this an American film or is this a Chinese film?” that was the first question people would ask when I first started pitching the movie. It’s a trick a question, right? Because if I said it’s an American film, but also saying I wanted it to be subtitled, people would say, “Well then, it’s not American”. But then if I told Chinese investors it’s a Chinese film, they would say, “Well then it can’t be told from Billi’s perspective, because her perspective is too Westernized and a Chinese audience is not going to resonate with her.” It felt in a way very confrontational because it’s like asking me “Are you American or are you Chinese?” [..] Culturally I’m American, my perspectives are American, but from an aesthetic perspective: do other people look at me and think that I’m American? There was all of that and so I knew that I had to tell this movie from exactly where I stand — which is in the middle. – Lulu Wang

THE FAREWELL
2019 – Lulu Wang

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Life is a journey, don’t be afraid to see where it takes you.

silverspatuler

I was just captivated by this comic

THIS NEEDS TO BE A MIYAZAKI FILM 

Yes to bird frands

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Long but gorgeous.

AAAAAAA

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