• Yurt_Owl [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    Its normal for young people to generate some random ideology not really linked to their actual conditions in any way. It’s usually not very serious or backed that strongly but instead draping in aesthetic.

    The true radicalisation comes after screaming in the staff room after a few years of working realising this is it forever. Or me hiding in the toilets at my office until the lights turn off and i just continue sitting there.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      yeah sometimes I actually want to sympathize with younger people who do this. They’re adopting wacky ideologies and making it their entire personality because they don’t have need for politics yet. It’s a fun game for them

    • invo_rt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      Yeah, when I was a kid, I was always left sympathetic, but a total lib. Nothing brought me further to where I am today than getting a job with a large company and experiencing the dissonance of the CEO rolling out the red carpet for himself to tout the amazing year we had before calling an all-hands meeting to say that there wasn’t money in the budget for raises.