Younger generations proved more willing than older ones to convert discontent into public anger.
Evidence
But of course one of the great things that’s happened over the last year or so, that’s significant though, is the student protests at the end of 2010. It was students who lead this. There’s a sense there of what I was looking for or hoping for when I was writing Capitalist Realism — that these forms of unacknowledged disavowed discontent would convert into forms of public anger. What was so exciting about the student protests was seeing that process start. Because I think a lot of the older people are much more in that mode that I was describing earlier of kind of resignation. I don’t think there’s many people who are fans or enthusiastic supporters of the coalition government, but I suspect the general attitude is, “Well, there’s not much we can do about this”. In other words, a form of capitalist realism. What we saw with the young is a kind of challenging of that in a very dramatic way. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2127
Categorization
- XREF: Concrete 2010 instance of the resignation-vs-anger dynamic central to Capitalist Realism. — connects to: People do not inevitably grow more conservative with age — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1140; Officials’ dismissive responses convert residents’ fear into sustained oppositional anger.; Angry young men formed a market for once-discredited aristocratic ideologies. — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 803
Broader Connections
- Angry young men formed a market for once-discredited aristocratic ideologies.
#exemplifies(0.85) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 803 - People do not inevitably grow more conservative with age
#complicates(0.75) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1140 - Officials’ dismissive responses convert residents’ fear into sustained oppositional anger.
#expands(0.72)