it’s human nature for people to adopt it as an identity, which introduces a lot of noise to the conversation, and we lose some of our objectivity toward it, as now there’s an emotional attachment to the label itself.
I’ve noticed this in LGBQT culture as well. I’m a gay older Millenial and I’ve noticed that zoomers make their sexuality a much bigger part of their identities than qeer folks my age and older do as it becomes more accepted. For me, I don’t want to be “special”. I want absolute equality- I wish being with my boyfriend was seen as normal and ordinary.
Neither does anyone really, it’s a mystery physics has been trying to solve for the past 97 years.
Love how even IRL people forget about Frank Grimes. good ol Grimey
It’s a survivor the same way the coelacanth or horseshoe crab is - a living fossil.
lol no it’s not, could even take pics to show you
I’m apparently the archeologist over here with my Model M and its buckling springs.
That’s the insidious thing about conspiracy theories once they latch onto the brain. Any consequences or conflicting information just become “them” trying to subdue or mislead you.
Electric just ain’t the same. Zoomers will never know the power of hearing your CPU revving in high gear during those intense Quake matches.
Is this person 20 years older than their pfp implies? I’m 35 and have been in group chats with friends since the mIRC days in 2003.
This is why as much as much as I don’t wanna die, I hope we never unlock the secret to immortality. At least for now billionaires and fascists all die eventually.