[FRIAM] unplanned [sen|obsol]escence

[Marcus Daniels]

No argument there.   No one wants to join my pro-GMO foodie club though.  ☹

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Well, nothing that relies on the ambiguities of "generations" will ever be true in any reliable sense. For example, even though I'm on the Boomer side of GenX, I affiliate with Millenials way better than I do other GenXers. And my sister, who's at the beginning of GenX, affiliates with the Boomers way better than GenXers. And people like Renee' hop domains, calling bikers "hippies", rejecting shoegaze and psytrance but seriously digging numetal ... maybe for all the sexy bois who dominate it.

You simply defy the pigeonhole just like every other particular defies all pigeonholes. It's the whole that matters, not the parts.

But my objection to Puritanism is similar to the righties' objection to Wokeism and lefties objection to fascism (or even conformity: https://justinehsmith.substack.com/p/covid-is-boring). "Clean living" and "healthy lifestyle" are pseudo-profound bullshit, no better than anti-vax or QAnon.

On 9/22/21 10:03 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Is that true?   I kind of stopped drinking not because of health or because of risk it could create, but just because it doesn't make me feel good.   And it is kind of expensive.   And for what?   Sugar and caffeine, now those are more serious addictions!
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> Generation X are heavy, risky drinkers. Will anything ever persuade us to stop?
> https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/22/generation-x-heavy-drinkers-will-anything-persuade-us-to-stop
> 
> "There’s one other factor: the odiousness of comparison. Or, to put that more simply, generation X was never that extreme, it’s just the millennials, or generation sensible, are making us look bad. They drink less overall, and are more likely to renounce drinking altogether. Generation Z drink less still ..."
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> "People are so cynical: they say millennials are just taking drugs or smoking weed instead. But that’s not the case: we’ve seen declines in all drug use."
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> If anything makes me worry about the future of society, it's this Puritanism infecting our youngsters. Alcohol is poison. But the other drugs are much less so. Maybe, just maybe, we'll see loosening of controls (like marijuana, X, and psi) and that will allow DIY body modification, implants, and such to flower. It's important to see it as a spectrum.
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