[dluan]

lmao this is great.

one thing ive always felt about moments of impossible to understand chaos and vertigo is that if want to find some sense of understanding, then look to the kids.

for young people, all of the chaos is normalized. theyre not having to deal with foundation-shattering down-is-now-up redefinitions, "once in generation economic recession" every 10 years, etc etc. i mean they see all of the same noise, but i think theyre still very able to identify the signal and make sense of what is actually nonsense and what is meaningful. like, think back to when you were a kid when everyone was screaming that the sky was disintegrating in an ozone hole.

and so if i look at the kids today, im reassured. theyre dealing with all of it much more amusingly than when millennials were kids (haha! anxiety is a tik tok dance! lo-fi mix to dissociate to), and theyre still doing stuff like unionizing their local starbucks, and actually reading bakunin and kropotkin.