Polling data shows gen Z is the least likely demographic to vote for One Nation, with support coming from older generations.
Young Australians have told triple j hack how a difference in politics has impacted their family dynamic.
Relationships Australia said it is hearing from more people experiencing family fallouts over politics.
Many genXers and boomers arent able to critically evaluate social media with the distrust that it’s earned. They came from an age where the person who presented the opinion was real and could be held accountable for it. i dont think they have a visceral feel for how almost everything they see now has been put in front of them with the intent to sell something or shape their opinion. They believe it when some unaccountable fake account tells them something with conviction. (Which is why Im not on r/australia and use Fedeverse/Lemmy ❤️)
Yeah, agree. I feel like it’s more older gen x, there’s such a divide in gen x, older can sometimes have identical views to problematic boomers. (Obviously it’s not an across the board definition) I’m gen x, but closer to millennial and I can’t relate to gen x. My political leanings have always been very left.
The effected gen x and boomers come from a time when they got all their information from “the news” and just believed it. The news has since, essentially, become entirely coopted by the evil forces we know. Even as a little kid I would ask questions of the news, my parents couldn’t answer and just yelled at me for asking.
If you hand your thinking over to someone else, you are outsourcing that ability for yourself.
That combined with hard bias’ embedded within the manipulative representation of events. And manipulative phrasing leaning on “othering”, relying on the social anxiety of being ostracised if you oppose said views. It essentially forms a cult.
Forgive me if I repeat this poorly, I’m just relying on the electrified meat cased within my skull, but there was one thing most of the old and dandy philosophers agreed on, that you should be able to put down entirely all that you believe, so as to not accidentally fall for propaganda. It’s not a new thing, propaganda. And none of us are impervious. And then you have to be careful of not causing a confirmation bias for yourself, when seeking to question everything you believe.
It all starts with questions.
I’m a boomer (as many of you may be sick of hearing) and have to keep reminding you that a segment of my generation were there on the streets fighting to end the Vietnam War, nuclear weapons proliferation, sexism, anti-homosexuality laws and racism and to legislate for Aboriginal land rights, safe reproductive rights, environmental protections and so on.
It is true that by comparison to today’s society, times were simpler but they were no less political. We were aware of propaganda (as you say, it is not a new thing) and how it always seems to lead to the oppression of those who had the least resources to fight with (except each other).
Perhaps dividing ourselves (yet another division) by generation is another artificial way of alienating us from one another. So long as we believe unthinkingly in an ‘us and them’ we are a lot easier to manipulate and be pushed into squabbling amongst ourselves. Just what the empire managers want.
Bingo!
Happy 14th birthday
That’s nasty.
How about, instead, giving your view without disparaging anyone?
Think like a child, be referred to as a child, your ignorance was matched by your arrogance there.
How many children do you personally know can write out a sentence like the one that you just quoted?
Who else besides a child would choose to believe that gen x people are incapable of understanding social media?
If they were not a child, they would have suggested ‘the silent generation, and baby boomers’
The majority of social media users are millennials/z/alpha, social media is manipulating more of them than any other demographic, and the majority of ‘influencers’ doing the manipulation are millennials/z/alpha. Often the only real difference in thought processes, selfishness, and consumerism between millennials/z/alpha and baby boomers is… age.
That is all of course only if you wish to buy into the whole ‘generations’ thing…
Yes, strongly agree. With many people the solution to fix our families’ views would be to start from insight like this, instead of condemnation and outrage.