Someone born between the years 1946 and 1964 has in recent years become the blame of all our society's degradation. With mass immigration, foreign rape gangs, ethnic enclaves, sectarian politics, inflated house prices, scarce jobs, low pay, staggering economic growth and a deep and widespread sense of national misery, the British State continues to prop up the Boomer and all her selfish ways. It has created an entire generation of resentment amongst those my age because it subsidises the elderly at the expense of the young.
Despite widespread animosity towards the Boomer, few have really taken the time to analyse her in great detail. "Ok, Boomer!" is simply not a sufficient response to the Boomer's carelessness, selfishness and callousness. Should we chance ourselves along a new trajectory? Once the age of the Boomer will end and the greatest transfer of wealth in history takes places, it would be a deep intellectual waste to progress our civilisation into the next age without first dissecting the mechanics and tinkerings of the Boomer.
The Boomer is not limited to a specific age group. Download enough from parents, schools, state media and public institutions, anyone can become a Boomer. After all, what separates each generation (Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z) is their unique exposure to types of media and cultural change.
The Boomer loves thinking about "others".
One of the Boomer's principle ethos is to "always care about others before yourself". This makes her scope of care neglect her own children and gaze longingly to the ethnics of the outside.
The Boomer loves foreigners. She adores dark skin and "exotic" languages. In the early days of the Boomers global fetish, it was French, then Spanish, then Italian, and now she will foam at the mouth to anyone that she cannot understand. She is amused by them. She will gleefully squeak at the sounds of clapping lips and rolling tongues and will gladly have her throat tickled by their "delicious" gastronomy.
Given the obsession with "others", even the others we cannot understand, the Boomer has established this love on the premise that every other and every outsider is just like them, regardless of knowing what kind of outsiders are actually there. No matter what, she will defend others. These others could be child rapists, sex traffickers and paedophiles - behaviour which we haven't yet absorbed or accepted into our narrow "white, bland, boring" culture. In light of Pakistani Rape Gangs, this has made it difficult for the Boomer to continue to openly admit her love of foreigners. With true horror at their door, they still haven't woken up from their drugged-up sedation, closed their wide open arms and really reconciled with the delusions "hippie love" really brings. Their insane love of others and unending smothering of compassion strangled all forms of justice for the Rape Gang victims and has only led to the horrors we see today in the Rape Gang Inquiry.
At the back of her mind, she is scared. Confused and ashamed by her own works, she cannot help feel at the outset of her mind that none of this is real.
The Boomer sees everything as labels and categories.
The roaring ages of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s has been most overwhelming to the Boomer. She forms her world through categories, labels and names as a response to order this mass flux of media, events and rapid societal transformations. Rather than navigate this world as a fully integrated being, she has to navigate it through precepts and labelling axioms. This is synonymous with Moses giving the early Israelites the Law because of the hardness of their hearts. Having grown up with the most complex materialistically driven society, the Boomer has only managed to ground their politics based on the whims, desires and authoritarian wishes of a few men, rather than a God that loves and cares for them.
This has only led the Boomer to see the world as categories placed in discretely fitted boxes - something can only exist if it can be placed into a category. Things cannot and must not be true in themselves - and if they are it is chaos itself and must be rendered as disruptive, radical and dangerous,. It must have a legally associated category for something to be true. Subjects cannot exist within themselves and in relationship to others but rather must fit within the judge of the law of categories. The law itself is in terms of rules, precepts and pretexts; categories fail to recognise the implicit dynamic of these subjects: friendship, relations, home.
The Boomer will naturally object to identifying subjects in terms of their relationships: "Well! Things would just be chaotic and unrecognisable if we don't label everything." This is only true for borders and names unto themselves but the category is not the substance of the subject itself. Labels are attached to the object. However, in the Boomer's mind, the label is the object.
This idea was made most clear to me by the analysis of Carl Benjamin who recently has emphasised the importance of relationships between the individual ethnos within a common friendship. The idea stands in opposition to the superficial legal ties that have been imposed by the State without our consent. Benjamin branches this idea by dismissing the use of categories in one's main rhetoric and promotes the more useful dialogue of relations.
Attaching labels to relations and what once were subjects in themselves couldn't be more apparent in the state of modern so-called "dating". Labels such as "girlfriend", "boyfriend" and "official", "partner" are all labels attached to the real meat of the Holy matrimony of Marriage. Modern people, having been astute students of the Boomer, walk on labels everyday in order to get to the real object itself. Labels are flimsy and are easy to rip and tear away. (My greatest suggestion for young people discerning marriage is to be entirely in it or out of it - don't hold onto labels lest they tear away from the real husk of Marriage).
The Boomer is completely risk avoidant
When one wants to enterprise or innovate - in business, in industry or in politics - the Boomer will refer to her rule-based legal order. Rather than review the idea for its substance itself, she will cross-examine it with with the existing rigid framework.
The idea is new and the innovator's proposed idea might even be popular. It might even have a democratic mandate. It might also be superficially straightforward. It won't be rejected completely. Instead, he will hear things such as:
"This is not how things are done...We've never done anything like this before...This raises some concerns...We need to be careful...There are legal and reputational risks."
From this dialogue, the Boomer will offer the entrepreneur slightly modified versions of his ideas that protects the existing framework. Health and safety, ethical approval, legal review and safeguarding will all be leveraged in belligerence to the original idea. These alterations will appear as friendly.
Once these versions are accepted, the risk-taker has lost and has been absorbed into the Boomer's system. She will capture the ideas with competence and well-meaningful intentions. She will appear to share his goals and she'll warn him about feasibility. She will appear as sincere. He will have the illusion of progress and will simultaneously be praised for not rocking the boat.
Then, after the release of the ideas have gone ahead, outcomes will not change and the entrepreneur will be blamed for the stagnation. The blame will be transferred to him. Once it is clear that outcomes haven't shifted, the idea and its failings will become personalised.
"He promised too much. He didn't understand."
The Boomer has been culturally manufactured to block the entrepreneur and will present herself as someone that prevented him from going down a path that is much worse. She will also congratulate herself for preventing these hypothetical disasters by steering the boat along a familiar and designated course. Just like a quartermaster warning the captain about a potential iceberg and constantly changing the course of the ship. The quartermaster is able to justify all his well-intended actions by the avoidance of the hypothetical iceberg; the captain is able to thank the quartermaster for his keen eye and fast actions when in reality the ship is just drifting in circles and there is no iceberg.
This ultimately leads to a consistent failure to move successfully into new territories. It decapitates innovation and stifles cultural enterprise. Constant inaction, hesitation, delays and review upon re-review demonstrates that the Boomer, ultimately, has no faith.
The Boomer is aesthetically illiterate.
The Boomer loves Twinkl Primary School Fonts. She is aesthetically ugly and out of her depth given the abundance of material at her disposal. She adores new forms of media but fails to assign them hierarchically to make it aesthetically pleasing. As an unauthentic agent, this makes her rhetoric weak, dull and uninteresting. This not only makes her aesthetically illiterate but also lacking in authenticity. She struggles to create anything herself and has no way towards recognising her inner heart. This renders the Boomer as a reflexive parrot of the BBC: continually repeating the same well-to-do talking points of breakfast shows, news clips and daytime TV.
Surrounding her TV is further proof of her aesthetic ugliness. So much material productivity in a span of merely 30 years has given the Boomer a plethora of useless, cheap and ugly products. She failed to discern beauty and her home has since became a sedated shell of vibes. Candles, stones, little faceless ornaments, heart shaped ceramics has made her home into that of a fortune teller's. Sometimes you may see a statue of Buddha.
The Boomer is at the end of History.
She has finally seen it all. We are at the end of History. We are all liberal atoms floating at the end of time, removed from our contexts and delineated from our history. The Boomer quietly looks back as time itself is coming to a close.
While literal barbarians are destroying our country and are banging at the doors, the Boomer has no advice or wisdom to share. She was given everything and can mutter nothing more than "Well! That's just the way of the world."
The Boomer, ultimately, is tired.
The Boomer, after actively neglecting her family and refusing to guide her culture in exchange for the fancies of the world, is lonely. Caused by her own doing, everything that she sought out to achieve: independence, bliss, peace, silence - has been achieved.
Neglectful, spiteful, entitled: the Boomer sees everything that disturbs the "peace and quiet" as evil. She's cosy, warm, and well fed. What seems apparent to be an expression of bliss is really masking the true state of exhaustion.
In this tiredness, it will require someone else to take charge. Neglectful of her duty as a parent and custodian of the culture, the Boomer has cowardly and quietly slipped away. Her charge is left without an announcement or a plan of transition. The Boomer has dropped the ball; it's time for those who truly want to play to pick it up again.
If wisdom may be found anywhere, it can be found from looking at the Boomer and all her failures. The age of the Boomer is over.
