She sounds like me. Honestly I owe a lot of my deprogramming to my gen Z kid. He was the one who started to push againts my Soviet Union/AES brainworms and these days he finds it funny how I went a lot further into the rabbit hole than him.
Same. My kid introduced me to Hasan, it was a step in my path out of my lifelong liberal brainworms. I owe the younger generation a lot.
Ok yeah, flow from some auditory things I definitely get and also seek it. So maybe it was ASMR all along.
Great explanation. Explained like this I do get it better, for me it would be something like listening to music with the scratch of vinyl in it and sort of getting lost in that. Also have had this with peoples voices. Wind in certain types of trees and other auditory things like that that are just deeply pleasure inducing.
A lot of music does this to me, but not sure if this would be the same. In jazz music the sounds of the instruments on the tape for example.
Right?
We have this thing with my kid where we play music for each other and rate it, to expand our views and learn new music. Some of the stuff he has thrown at me has been really hard to comment on, but it is interesting.
Might be. It works great for my kid for sleep/making the head go queit, but for me it just causes unease We are both neurodivergent with loud minds. I personally need stories being read for sleep.
I mean I do get it, but it isn’t for me. I know a lot of people my age who do like ASMR.
Tbh, always really disliked Jackass too.
Otherwise I think the kids these days are great. Have learnt so much from them, about drawing boundaries, neurotypes, gender. I am very happy to be the parent of one of these younger humans, they make the best comrades.
A bit tired with studying and working full time at the same time. But doing better with it than ever before with my late arrived understanding of my neurotype.
Having conflicting feelings about the clients I have to try and help in my work when they bring forward fullblown nazi thinking, it also sometimes makes me feel a bit unsafe. Struggling a bit with that, but doing my best and hoping to nudge people towards a more material understanding of their position.
Glad that I have a decent paycheck finally and am now able to help my also neurodivergent kid pay their rent over the summer.
My little backyard garden tomatoes are looking amazing.
This could have been the abstract.
Yeah, this is a course in gender studies I am doing as a minor. Still has nothing on the course I did on the feminist revolution in Iran where we got a real life diaspora Iranian citing radio free europe links to us as study material.
Truly the most unbiased academic learning.
I especially love how the author just threw the deaths and misery that resulted from the fall of the Soviet Union in there as some inevitable force of nature type event with zero analyzes of why, by who and to the benefit of who it actually happened. I am so annoyed with the ever present divorce of the historical analysis of the harms of capital and reality from all academic text.
Reading this article onward it does have some good stuff in it too, once it actually gets to looking at the garage culture and the men who participate in it. But it also credits neoliberalism as giving people some alternate path to agency, true Giddens brainworms.
I also hate how hard a time the author still has in giving credit to the collectivist form of human activity that is described.
And the jargon is just never-ending. The last two pages of this I was not even able to really understand, and afaik I understand things just fine.
I read it. Oh my… to think this is from 1909 if I understood correctly. The bit about “beware of first-hand ideas” at the end chilled me to the bone, it was so “the times we live in”.
Thank you! 
If you ever remember the name I’d love to read this one. It seems like a very good description of social media today.
Going into someones house with shoes on would very much be considered so rude where I live.
I mean in winter shoes are covered in snow, in spring and autumn they are often wet. Or just otherwise dirty. Why would anyone do that to someones home?
My work puts me in peoples homes and the first thing I do is take off my shoes, because of course I do.
I used to have a AmeriKKKan partner for a while and the dude lived his life with shoes on. Like put them on getting out of bed. Even had them on lying down often. Seemed so uncomfy to me, but I suppose if the insides of houses are treated the same as the outside, you would want shoes on because the floor must be dirty all the time.
Same as with banal nationalism. Which also works as a sock discourse. Saying this as one of the wool sock country folks.
So my gen X ass looks millenial in the summer and zoomer in the winter, ok. Lol
Who even pays attention to peoples socks? I don’t even know what other people look like (as in eye colour and such).
Oh boy it’s so bad… and sadly this reads like most of the stuff I ever hear from revisionists around these parts.
I visited AmeriKKKKa once and the fireflies was the best, most amazing thing I saw there.
This is true. I am doing uni now with zoomers and it feels a lot safer. I am far more at ease now even though I am ancient compared to them and have a long history of being bullied. Noticed this when I did substitute teaching as well.
They also call you out on things like putting yourself down for your work just in case, a very gen X thing. And have also informed me that dating apps aren’t really used anymore and people prefer in person connection more again, they are organizing a lot of get-togethers.
Also drinking. I am from a generation where getting shitfaced in a concert was supposedly “fun”. Or heavy drinking in general. My kid and his friends genuinely prefer going to events sober or with light drinking, same with uni stuff. I mean they still drink, but not nearly as much. And non-drinking stuff is popular too.
Also openness to vegan food. It’s a total non issue to make and eat vegan in an event. Go back ten years and even millenials I feel have far more brainwormy takes on “but muh meats!”.
Edit. Now that I got going with the praise a few more things came to mind that I admire genuinely:
Far more principled takes on politics. Even things like boycotting I have noticed they follow through long term.
Making value based choices and sticking to them. Like buying clothes second-hand. Far less treat brained paradoxically. Often buying one good thing that will last years.
I know people keep saying the youngest generation is always most progressive, but I disagree. I have seen my own youth and been told about my parents hippie youth and neither ever actually engaged with anything more than being libs about the things. Or knew anything.
The kids these days are in a fundamentally different position with all the crisis and late stage capitalism. And the internet has made them aware of things in ways no generation before has been.