So, not to pick on John, but this take is actually wrong and OP is right. Because something catastrophic *did* happen to Gen X and the Xennial's music: the Telecommunication Act of 1996.

It's story time, kids… 1/ https://t.co/IINSCysmHG

— Patchen Mortimer (@patchdj) November 15, 2021

A rare person who actually knows what he is talking about. There was indeed an unusual burst of creativity and just weirdness from 1989-1997 or so, but it was quickly squelched.

Interesting how corporate takeovers always result in the disappearance and diminishment of women, innit? I don’t quite understand why that is the case, but seems to be the inevitable result. Are men just more predictable in corporate eyes or what?

People are different but if I have 3 drinks in an hour I am 100% shitfaced. Will struggle to walk.

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) November 13, 2021

I’m not a heavy or frequent drinker, but if I have three drinks in an hour, I’m only very slightly tipsy and can walk fine, and have very few noticeable effects. No one would even know unless I told them. I weigh 165 pounds, but am apparently pretty alcohol-tolerant (no, I would not drive after drinking).

It might be genetic? My dad could drink an entire six pack of beer and no one could even tell. He just basically did not get noticeably drunk.

I don't know when it happened, but at some point in the last few years I stopped believing in democracy as an ideal form of governance. It likely was a vital step in social evolution, but now it feels broken and outdated.

— Aella (@Aella_Girl) November 12, 2021

Same. I no longer am an adherent of liberalism or supportive of democracy — but take both leanings with a huge grain of salt as I have no idea what better system might replace them. All I know is that they are in a probably-permanent irresolvable failure state now as our technology and culture has exceeded what they are capable of handling ideologically and systemically.

What will replace them? Something absolutely will, either of our deliberate making or not.

We have like poisoned the word science by using to it mean VERY STRICT ABOUT COVID even if the particular intervention wasn't particularly well supported by scientific research. That is going to haunt us as we try to address climate issues.

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) November 15, 2021

BELIEVE SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

*Where science means my weird prudish moralizing, my paranoia that’s justified by something I read on a Facebook page set up by the CCP, while defining “science” as “anything that’s the harshest possible, and takes away the most from the most people, particularly women and children.”

You have not lived — merely existed — until you’ve experienced the awesome flavor of this industrial aftermath. Behold, dear readers:

There are no words for how Cheese Wow! changes you. There is only the analogy of the creeping oblivion that spiders across the wall behind you as you slumber, looming, expectant — eager even — and then when you give in to the temptation and dispense some Cheese Wow! into your mouth, the phantasm strikes, and the devourer is in fact not you but Cheese Wow! Your life is then consumed by regrets and your existence revealed as a meaningless and flimsy sham as Cheese Wow! opens the true abhorrence of the universe to your eyes — eyes that can never again be shut against this revelation.