i think it’s hard to overstate how badly a childhood diet of westerns and wwii movies fucked the boomers up

not to get all ‘what myths SHOULD we allow in our republic glaucon??’ but wow those were some pretty bad ones

electing a literal cowboy actor on an overt platform of rugged individualism and jingoistic nationalism and barely-under-the-surface racism and misogyny is a little on the nose by any measure

duplicating this thread for millennials, reality tv, and trump.
then triplicating it in 15 years when the zoomers elect robert downey jr on a big AI + military industrial complex platform