9/ But raise a generation deprived of any sense of secrecy and no social safety net yet the belief anyone can rise on any given day, and the tools of shame and status are much less effective. Digital natives *do not give a shit* about how older people view them.

— John Rogers (@jonrog1) January 4, 2019

Yes! I saw this at my previous job, where there were many young (almost all women) interns. There was a whole department of nearly all older women that was just utterly disdainful and contemptuous of these interns and treated them very poorly, and it just rolled off their backs like it was nothing. Most people from my generation would’ve been freaking out and in tears every day. Not the interns, to their great credit.

But I think these interns just implicitly understood that the older generation had already screwed them over, were attempting to do it again, and that it was their last Boomer hurrah before declining into cultural irrelevance.

I hung out with the intern gang as a group fairly often because I was mentoring one of them and it was hilarious and sad to hear them talk about older people and all the irrelevant crap they were consumed with. Not a bit of it mattered to these interns because they were heading into a much more precarious world. (Sample quote: “What does it matter if crazy lady from PMO gets me fired? I can’t pay my student loans either way.”)

So, indeed, millennials and younger don’t really give a single crap about the opinions of the people who screwed them over and are attempting to do it even more.

Did you know that AOC was once in high school or college or something and had fun? So scandalous! And she even danced. Will the moral outrages never end?

The Republicans are giving her a great reputation and harming themselves more than they’re hurting her, by far. It’s hilarious to watch. I think they detest her so much because she’s both attractive and savvy to the modern clime in ways they’ll never be. (That’s why a lot of Dems dislike her too.)

What also makes me angry at the Dems, though, is they’d just as quickly abandon her if it turned out in her past she’d been a sex worker of some type. You know it’s true. So there’s no lack of hypocrites here.