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No matter your political affiliation, there are two distinct political parties: everyone else and Boomers. As the discourse continues to crumble across the nation, one thing is perfectly clear: the elder generation is lost in a political email-focused hellscape of memes with questionable sourcing, news and politics (usually baked into memes) and inanely amateur NSFW jokes.
For a glimpse into this energetically political cesspool you can either log onto your parents (or grandparents) computer or check out the latest social endeavor from MSCHF, a weekly newsletter called Boomer Email.
With apps like Whatsapp cutting down on fake news and Facebook a constant source of either blatant misinformation or faux news, email has remained the most reliable way for Boomers to freely share their memes and grammatically questionable shattered thoughts about the state of politics. It may seem like Boomers are easy targets with this kind of pointed social criticism, but they brought us here — and won't throw any lotion into the pit. And the pit is in the desert. And it’s quicksand and they have all the large sticks.
Every email in the Boomer Email newsletter is 100% real and 100% subject to immediate anonymization. The emails are not use for any other purpose but to reveal the twisted insides of a digestive tract that benefited from a living wage being an actual living wage. The emails, while altered to not reveal the actual names or email addresses found within, are sourced directly from forwarded emails.
Sure, there’s a chance that a few of the emails could be faked, because the jokes basically write themselves at this point, but so many of them are just so ridiculously nutty, un-formatted and just so boomer, that they’re most likely as accurate as the awkward comments your parents leave on your Facebook posts.
No matter what we want to think, boomers’ ideology and politics have shaped this nation and continue — at this point — to interfere in allowing both to move forward. Email has been the social network of choice for the children of the greatest generation for a long time and now with this glimpse into it, we get to see what exactly they are chatting about when not telling us about the good ‘ol days.
We understand you walked thirteen miles each way in the snow, barefoot to school every day. We get it, you bought a house with $1000 down and had two ungrateful children. Now how about relinquishing some control and letting the next generation enact some way overdue changes?
“If you want to understand the situation in America, particularly if your mental image of America is a straw man 60-something Midwesterner who may or may not exist, then Boomer Email lets you immerse yourself in the literary and pictorial drivel that assails your imaginary, surrogate, and projected parents and grandparents every day,” Boomer Email writes in its very eloquent manifesto. “Put yourselves in the shoes of the Boomers and the Greatest Generation as they boot up their inscrutable glowing boxes every morning and are delivered (hand delivered through the thoughtful forwarding of dozens, nay scores, of their peers) absolute proof that Obama made the frogs gay — but (and here’s the rub) not until three years after the election of Donald J. Trump.”
America is on the edge. We’ve two generations frothing at the chance to lead, but the boomers in charge are doing all they can to prevent that from happening. But time comes for us all. The rest of the country’s boomers are constantly either trying to keep up with the changing social and political structure of America, or giving up and giving in to all the things they are less-than-sardonically forwarding to each other.
Boomer Email gives us the chance to decide where they stand, and where we shouldn’t stand lest we require a deep cleansing.
There is as much hilarity in the Boomer Email newsletter as there is just pure sadness that a generation that gave us so much in the way of technology, infrastructure and wisdom has relegated itself to no much more than the brunt of jokes based on their ill-informed and quick-react emails.
We can find the fun in this, or we can attempt once again to have that conversation with our parents or grandparents that yes, things have changed. Maybe they will once again claim they don’t need to get with it, but if we’re really to move forward as a country, they need to get on the train or get off the tracks.
