@stingraz @HighlandLawyer @cstross Civil Rights and the loss of public moral supremacy broke their existing coping mechanisms and sent them overtly nihilistic; anything so depraved as to insist they not be white supremacist in public had to be destroyed.

And of course this narrative splashed everywhere; that the sinful world deserves destruction is a core part of Christian thought. (Not historical doctrine, but thought.) The novelty lies mostly in the ubiquity of craving an apocalypse.

@graydon @stingraz @HighlandLawyer @cstross Boomers crave an apocalypse because the oldest ones turn 80 this year. They're railing against the dying of the light. They refuse to go quietly, and wish to actively PREVENT the world continuing on without them.

This is a problem the actuarial tables will address: 1955 is the boomer/jones cutoff, actuarial tables say pre-pandemic US average lifespan was 79, 1955+79=2034, hence boomer extinction burst.

What will be left to salvage, I couldn't say...

@cstross @graydon @stingraz @HighlandLawyer Younger half of the boomers have collectively noped out of the group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

They insist they got screwed over by the older boomers too, and the sane-ish third do seem to be in the younger half.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

I used to say 1955 was the midpoint of boom (half of all boomers born before then). Character limit made jones easier. (2034 is ld50 of 50% but how much is needed to lose political power? Nursing homes, institutions)