Hate to break it to you but most “basic jobs” can’t even pay for sustenance and transportation with their wages, let alone housing, insurance, recreation, self-care, and whatever other grift American corporatism pushes on the ordinary worker

Looooooool wtf is Bernie doing with Theo

Hypernormalisation

Disillusionment was literally Gen X's whole thing btw

Idk if it's becoming mainstream (personally I feel it's been that way for a minute), but Theo and Bernie having this conversation on a large platform feels pretty significant

Sidenote I can't believe Bernie is 82 going on 83 and is as sharp and energetic as he is in this interview. Biden could never.

I peeped this clip the other day

idk what the stage past disillusionment is, but i personally think we are there

maybe that is just the young me talking but, I think people have moved past being off put on the lack of a cohesive social society, and have shifted to making the most of the hellscape. yes they will work 40 hours a week, but they wont think too much about it, and use the other time enjoying things they can.

Staying off social media won’t make houses affordable

I haven’t seen anything about Theo Von in ages and then I see him dropping knowledge about the state of the world and the state of being.. in an interview with Bernie?!

I tried

good finally been waiting for it

Resistance ?

for some, and the other i would say are in an era of complacency

In what sense

Because Gen X was the people who voted Reagan in their first elections

The last year or so, I’ve become disillusioned about popular culture and the Kendrick/drake beef cemented that for me. There’s just no real worth to most of this stuff we give so much attention to. I’ve been off social media for like a year now and my sister showed me a meme that’s trending and all I could say was what is even the point of this nonsense

Lost Generation from the 1920s

Counterculture has always been a thing. The “lost generation” wasn’t a mass movement of disillusionment

incredible that Bernie's handlers refuse to allow him on any leftist podcast whatsoever but allowed this to promote Kamala lmao

Not the literary term. The era of people worldwide losing faith in a world they thought was comfortable after the never-before-seen horrors of WWI. The flu. The birth of popular culture as a concept (and thus consumerism) forcing people to move from self-sustaining communities into larger urban areas to survive. The Great Depression occuring shortly after.

A 15-20 year period of back to back societal tragedies that left people in existential crisis without hope.

This is true the only thing we need to do is fix wealth inequality

After that everything opens up

I'm writing in Bernie f*** it

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN HIM

Fair enough honestly, title could've been paired w/ a better speaker