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Last night I was talking with @saintwalker98 about how there's a weird apocalypticism beneath the suburbs and the ethos of the boomer generation that is ripe for exploration via horror, as well as deconstruction.
Deconstruction in particular because I see one of the most famous horror authors, Stephen King, as weirdly emblematic of certain things I've come to find terrifying about boomers. Specifically his distinct boomer small town Americana nostalgia which I relate to all this.
I see The Stand, which I utterly loathe as morally abominable, as one distinct albeit unintentional horrific apex of where the apocalyptic strain beneath rustic nostalgia and the sentiments that lead to subrubanism and exurbanism take the world.
Basically what I'm saying is there is something in a certain kind of boomer ethos that is highly nihilistic and inclined towards nationalistic fascistic religious apocalypticism, and the Stand is just one of the more peculiar and notable manifestations, even if the author didn't-
-intend it as such.
The beauty and wonder and life and energy of humanity is subjected to nightmarish genocide possibly by a capricious deity...just so two collections of utterly mediocre garbage people could form opposing totalitarian religious cults, and all of it-
The beauty and wonder and life and energy of humanity is subjected to nightmarish genocide possibly by a capricious deity...just so two collections of utterly mediocre garbage people could form opposing totalitarian religious cults, and all of it-
-leads to the most meaningless pointless confrontation in the history of fiction.
there are more humane and interesting ways to handle apocalyptic fiction. Ask George Miller or Yoshinori Kitase.
Anyway, I'm not surprised American boomers have handled the pandemic so badly.
there are more humane and interesting ways to handle apocalyptic fiction. Ask George Miller or Yoshinori Kitase.
Anyway, I'm not surprised American boomers have handled the pandemic so badly.
Whether war or disease or the ones who yearn for more religious fanaticism, they want apocalypse and misery.
Of course the people who get a rush from saying "life's no fair" to people are going to just whistle past the graveyard as death rates tick back up.
Of course the people who get a rush from saying "life's no fair" to people are going to just whistle past the graveyard as death rates tick back up.
The Villages, the retirement community in Florida, is another perfect example of selfish boomer nihilism. A far right planned community exerting political influence on a state with outsized importance, cloistering themselves off the enjoy the blandest hedonism imaginable while-
-their political decisions lead to environmental destruction and further attempts to codify prejudice and hatred further and further in to the law.
I have no specific conclusion to this, these are just some disjointed thoughts I've been having lately.
Boomer nostalgia feels dangerous to me. There's a generational strain of thought that seems like a shiny happy workaholic religious nihilism there.
Boomer nostalgia feels dangerous to me. There's a generational strain of thought that seems like a shiny happy workaholic religious nihilism there.
