The revenge of the 'boomers'

"Without saying your age, say something that young people don't understand."

This is the proposal that has spread like wildfire on Twitter in the last week.

The answers cascade: Beta or VHS, video store, rewind the tape, Captain Trueno, Micromanía, yenka, Enrique and Ana, the tazos, COU, Mirinda, the duodenal fistro, Orzowei, gallifante, two diamonds.

My favorite is @jones_lucia's tweet with his chosen word:

.

And @ Multiko30's response: “Sorry!

Is the

no longer used?

What are we, savages?

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- Lucia Velasco (@jones_lucia) January 4, 2022

This revenge of the

has its grace, fed up as those over 55 are of the youngest explaining to them that they are becoming obsolete and that they do not understand the millennial language or the centennial or anything that someone 15 or 20 years has to say less.

Remember that Fundeu recognized already in 2020 the use of the expression: "OK,

", which means something like "Okay, old man" and is used to disdainfully grant reason to the

generation (born between 1945 and 1965).

Very useful to shut down parents, teachers, bosses and old rockers in general.

The fact that young people do not understand their elders for once is funny, because usually they are the ones who have the last word. Especially in a world where the latter is not the one that implies the best reasoning, but literally the one that appears later. Young people ship,

, have

, they know what is

delulu

be

. Technology has modified language and has separated generations to the point that they do not understand each other when they speak. The consequences of this distance are serious and are only funny in the form of a tweet because without intergenerational dialogue we are doomed to make the most serious mistakes.

That this dialogue is essential has been perceived by Ibai Llanos, who has struck out with Ramón García on Twitch to bring young and old together around the same screen. In 2022, two million

passed the test of entering the year with the same story. Now, will the different generations manage to share a work culture? An ecological bet? The same idea of ​​justice? In short: can generations that have stopped speaking the same language coexist?

Today the tower of Babel is not that the terms are different but that they mean opposite things according to the age segment. Words circulate, but meanings are not shared. Beauty, virtue, ethics or justice are opaque words (in addition to being corrupted), not because their meanings have been modified but because they are already arbitrary and generational. Once myths, the meaning of history and society are no longer shared, human language becomes opaque. Official education has finished finishing off this landscape of the deaf with the murder of philosophy, mother tongues and thought in general.

To do.

If there is no community, there is no communication.

But in turn the community is made by talking to each other.

Where can we find ourselves if everyone only talks to their screen, waiting for it to confirm that they are still handsome and ready.

We know that

cool

and that young people are

, but we forget that without dialogue between experience and youth, the conflict of interest (without solution) is served.

Knowledge is understanding.

The same as intelligence and love.

is the millennial answer to move on to the next when something doesn't matter.

And in

we are.

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