/lit/ - Literature

>>11653309
>Remember Vonnegut? Nah I guess he was before your time. Funniest author since Heller. His felt tip drawings were so out there

does this boomer meme stem from a fear of mortality?

>>11653337
I always feel it is a celebration of mortality. The boomer is always happy, he relishes his memories.

>>11653309
You guys don't like fun here?

>Me and my friends used to toke some reefers and go downtown and shout David Foster Wallace out the car window

>>11653337
>>11653344

There's a possible mortality element to it, but I noticed that it strikes a chord on boards like /v/ where there's a sense that things were better "back then", and that things are getting progressively worse in life or their preferred hobby or interest.

It seemed to be originally used to shame people for their "outdated" tastes or self-satisfied, board-concensus opinions, but seems to have actually been embraced by the people it was supposed to ridicule, admittedly somewhat ironically.

>>11654706
30 year old boomer here. I agree with the op

>>11653337
No, it's from fear of having missed out.

>>11653344
Amor fati

30 yo boomer is the ubermensch

The boomer is peak calloused disillusionment. Pincered by a spirited past and a future he strains to understand, he is now protective of what he has built in hopes of it sustaining him into unknown waters. He sees the present generation as futile. As he himself is a discarded artifact of a past generation increasingly being gutted as naive, and in that sense, ultimately happy. He is the smirking sisyphus of capital. He now embraces the Monster that he helped built. He now sits from his perfect patch of grass and watches a burning world. It powers his feigning youth. And his only retribution left in answer to onions drinking zoomers. The final protest of bravado but still conscientious(no calories). With shades to hide his lost gaze in a world that rapidly forgets him, he still maintains a friendly smile. A simple gesture of parental reassurance to a generation of orphans. The reason any age can be a boomer is because the boomer's generation is one whole meme that lasted a great chuck of their life. And now the meme's lifecycle is shortening. From decades to years to months. New boomers are born everyday. The boomer's sin is not to adapt, but to be content with the boulder. And so he should ask himself: "To sip or not to sip?"

>>11655817
this sucks but if it's not pasta I appreciate the effort

Somebody shoop the can of Monster where the book is please
>Rest in peace my guy I don't care if you're a /lit/ meme or not

>>11653309
why do you type like you were born in 1950

>>11655861
*sips*

>>11655817

>>11655880
stoop kid won't get off stoop