‘Ok, Boomer’? Chloe and Emma have been thinking about boomers, millennials, and intergenerational warfare for a while now. In this episode, they discuss racist aunties on the internet and what to do about them. Next, they dive into historical questions like, who are boomers, why are they so entitled, and why are they so bad at the internet? They narrow down their discussion to the ‘boomer elite’, who got the best of all worlds in the second half of the 20th century as beneficiaries of first the post-war expansion of the welfare state and later neoliberal prosperity.
They find that in fact, there are plenty of older Australians who share the precarity and cynicism of millennials – so bring on the millennial/boomer alliance!
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Nicola Davison, ‘The Anthropocene Epoch: Have we entered a new phase of planetary history?’, The Guardian, 30 May 2019.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/30/anthropocene-epoch-have-we-entered-a-new-phase-of-planetary-history
Meera Subramanian, ‘Humans versus Earth: the Quest to Define the Anthropocene’, Nature, 6 August 2019.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02381-2
Tom Griffiths, ‘Coming of Age in the Great Acceleration’, Australian Book Review, November 2014.https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2014/125-november-2014-no-366/2220-coming-of-age-in-the-great-acceleration

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