Huh, I think I might’ve figured out why there are so many social scientists and other screeching lately about, “There’s no such things as generational differences!!!!!!!”

Not sure how I missed this, but I got it now: it’s because if you can deny that there are generational differences, you can then obfuscate the fact that there have been enormous economic changes wrought by pretty malevolent forces arrayed against each successive generation. That is, Gen X is worse off than the Boomers, the Millennials are worse off than Gen X, and Gen Z has it even worse than all of those. Concealing that is vitally important to the neoliberal project — hence, all the Drum et al. articles about how the Millennials don’t have it bad at all, it’s all lies that they are struggling, the facts are fake, etc. It’s all of a piece and “there are no generations” is one of those fragments.

That took me an absurdly long amount of time to figure out. Maybe I’m losing my edge. But I got there.