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Juggling With Eggs

‘try to imagine Ross, a scientist, now never thinking about climate change. Today, Phoebe would be a member of Extinction Rebellion; Rachel would be into fashion sustainability; Monica would have seven different recycling bins, not 11 types of towel; Joey … well, Joey would be the same.’

But many who came of age in 90’s got Chandler jobs…

amp.theguardian.com/commentisf

The Guardian · Why do so many people still love Friends? Because it reminds them of a time when life was still funBy Zoe Williams

I enjoyed the 90’s: a hedonistic decade where you could just about get by financially and you didn’t fear nuclear annihilation. Simple pleasures…

We should have worried more about the future and been more proactive. But it was also a time when global responsibility was the responsibility of the older generation…young people were just allowed to be young and have fun. Somewhere along the line that stopped. Why?

My brother would argue that the original teenagers, the Boomers then became that older generation in the 00’s that was supposed to take responsibility, but they’d only known things getting better for them and couldn’t comprehend they were creating a world that would be worse for their children and grandchildren.

I don’t think this is individually fair on all Boomers, but those who rose up the top are certainly culpable.

@JugglingWithEggs Some Boomers were hippies, others joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and later picketed Greenham Common, and some of us learned about climate change in school and have been screaming ever since. The generation after seemed to be more about quick profit and never mind the future (Thatcher's Children); perhaps in reaction....

@sunflowerinrain I quite agree there were many Boomers who don’t fit the current tropes of that generation…I suppose equally as one of Thatcher’s Children, I don’t feel that I am stereotypical of that generation either. My experience is that it often depends on how Boomer parents faired as to how their children view the world. Those who I know that are activists tend to be either a decade younger or older than me…so I accept Thatcher did make a lasting imprint on my generation.

@JugglingWithEggs Indeed. Your cohort weren't/aren't all City Suits, and some of my contemporaries shock me.
Example... Woman five years older than me, a very few years ago: "I don't care about global warming, I'll be dead by then.". Me (thinks): Whaaat?! THIS PERSON HAS CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN!!
This struggle continues until we win or die.

@JugglingWithEggs
We didn't know at first that the plastic replacing our natural products would pollute the earth.
I was part of the push in the 1970s to go back to growing foods and making things.
I have knowledge and some skills from my childhood and that time. But not the health to do much except pass that on if people want it.
I do still make my own washing powder, and bake cakes from scratch - but with my home help's assistance.
But I also buy IT stuff and I am here using up fuel.

@JugglingWithEggs This is exactly how I've described it so many times to my kids. It was our version of the 60s. We didn't have much, but we were carefree and it was a time where we had great music and companionship. I remember ushering in the millennium with a sense of hope, ready for the golden age of optimism and an end to all the ills of the world...

@JugglingWithEggs specifically “why”; because that didn’t serve the capitalist purpose 🤷‍♀️. That fun and carefree became someone’s unexploited profit, or needed to be abandoned by anyone having to do their best to get by in the system.

@benjohn in countries like the UK there was the insatiable demand to see house prices go up by those that owned them…and the rate of building new properties not meeting demand meant this was very achievable. Rising house prices meant it was more vital than ever to have two incomes to stand a chance of getting on the house ladder and so that dream was put on hold for many who saw no reason to settle down in their 20’s like previous generations had done. Without parental help - Gen Rent.

@JugglingWithEggs I'm this UK generation. I rented until my 30s and our 3rd child. I also loved the 90s.

@JugglingWithEggs ah, I was at university for most of the '90s and kinda isolated from anyone else… so I'm not entirely sure what I felt about it all. Hmm. I certainly didn't have any huge worries back then, but I've never really thought about that before and would have assumed that was because I was young, grant-supported, and didn't really have responsibilities.