Bouvard on Generational Politics and Mimetic Reactivity

I would never generalize about people in their teens-late 20s but it's telling that Zoomer hype never attributes any goals or ambitions for those it purports to speak for or even solutions to any problems--only grievances, framed in the most intractable terms possible.

Left Zoomer hype at least fits into the "radical youth" stereotype and those zoomers can thus appear to be part of a tradition going back to the 60s and beyond; right zoomer hype, like almost everything about the ~post-2014 right is just mimicking leftism.

This bad mimicry is unavoidable because the right is inherently reactive. The way out of the left/right is to treat the left not as a bearer of ideas and programs or the representative of social interests that need to be registered, but as vandals, trespassers, slanderers, etc.

There are bad ideas and dispositions and client classes motivating and comprising the left, but these can't be treated as other than pretexts, indications of unlawful intentions, incitement and criminal conspiracies. You'd also have to shore up your own conception of lawful order