These are all labels that zoomers have chosen to adopt for themselves, stapling it to their identity.
Sure. It also bears out statistically and you don't have to look hard to find polling data showing that, yes, zoomers are more radical (in both directions!) and more religious than prior generations, nevermind anecdotal examples.
Millennials had it almost as bad
They absolutely did not. They grew up in a mostly homogenous society with mostly functioning families, had a golden age of political and social expression thanks to dominating the early internet, open social spaces that were not dominated by the internet, a functioning dating market, could graduate uni at a time when a college degree still meant something, easy access to the booms brought about by the explosion of the tech sector and silicon valley, were positioned to get in on the ground floor at crypto, and they slop they consumed was good enough to make people who were too young to enjoy it nostalgic for it.
Did the millennials get screwed out of the housing market by the boomers or by 08 or not have as easy access to the American dream as they were promised growing up? Absolutely. Guess what; zoomers also suffered from all of that and they got very little to none of the opportunities or advantages the millennials did.
I don't care how hard zoomers have it,
Then why bring it up? Yeah, zoomers are disorganized, demoralized and shut out of institutional power. How dare they try to just get on in life instead of playing a game no one will let them buy in to. Water is wet.
The boomers managed to convert their social causes into permanent mainstays of political discussion like environmentalism, anti-war, anti-racism, human rights, etc.
???
These were not 'boomer' social causes. MLK was not a boomer. JFK was not a boomer. Woodie Guthrie was not a boomer. Michel Foucault was not a boomer. George Soros is not a boomer. Eisenhower and LBJ were not boomers. The Beatles were not boomers. The university professors who radicalized the boomers at Columbia and UC Berkeley were not boomers. Boomers were foot-soldiers for the causes they took up as a generation before they were in positions to push them. When they weren't, the result were groups like the Weather Underground or Symbionese Liberation Army, which were comically ineffective in pushing policy or inciting revolution. This is because politics and power are multi-generational projects; the boomers had older generations to organize them who had already worked on their political causes, and the boomers were happy to organize gen-xers and millennials in theirs. This is not the case for the zoomers and younger. Older generations are more interested in talking about angry young men than trying to listen to or lead them.
Gen X and millennial social causes were ultimately just trends that faded away.
What were these separate 'trends' that just faded away? Do you think political causes are only relevant for or can arise from a single generation?
Zoomers don't even have causes or trends.
No?
"More latinx teenagers watching Nick Fuentes" is not a trend
Literally the definition of a trend.
Isn't it an accurate reduction to just frame it as
Millenials - unified, yet too socialized and agreeable to meaningfully go against the boomer establishment.
Zoomers - driven, yet too dis-unified and too disagreeable to organize meaningful change.
Yes, which is why I didn't frame it as that. There are many driven millennials; that's how they monopolized most of the mid-level positions in the corporations they rallied against. They also aren't particularly interested in going against the 'boomer establishment', they're upset they didn't get to inherit it. Similarly, there are many zoomers who are just oneshot by niggerweed, porn, gambling and whatever other manner of escapism there is that keeps them from 'meaningful change'.
If you're really keen on seeing the 20 year old mobs break shit, it's gonna take a while before that happens.
It's amazing how easily people forget that only six years ago mobs of twenty-somethings were burning down churches across from the White House.
If you want mob violence, Zoomers are more than capable of it. If you want a revolution, you need multiple generations cooperating.