The Doomer Philosophy

A look at the Doomer and Boomer memes and their potential relationship with the aesthetic philosophy of Nietzsche, in particular his work "The Birth of Tragedy". The Doomer embodies the disillusioned Dionysian man, who has lost all of the helpful thoughts and beliefs that protected him from reality, but it turns out redemption comes in a strange form, the Cheerful Greek: The Boomer.


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[Z_TPI]

Government: Maintain social distance
Doomer: I cannot get any farther from society

[vulnerablerummy]

this man sounds like the grand connoiseur of meme culture

[wisdom-for-life]

I never realized how important memes are until I stumbled upon your channel.. Very good stuff man.. very deep. Keep it up!

[pixel_]

“The less you know, the better you sleep...”

[austinhope]

This video is an illustration of why network television is now obsolete

[ReneZZ]

Man, I wish I could show you how much I enjoyed this video and how impressed I am with the narrative and the way of linking memes, philosophy and psychology archetypes. I've been a big a fan of memes as a form of expression since those started and I've been trying to go deeper than the actual "funny image that relates to something" and I've been talking about how important memes are and how those are reaching some levels that should be studied in the future. I've been thinking about creating a file or even creating a channel to talk about the meaning layers of these apparent silly crappy drawings but I've never done it because I have some other priorities but man...

I would have never been able to reach the speech you do, the way you intertwine all the ideas and references plus the video format you created. Everything fits together so well and this is *important*

Keep doing this please

[EntropySwordZ]

Couldn't come at a more salient time too. Amazing that the hive mind brought me here today.

[costa]

The 19 year old thinker picture hit home so damn hard I didn't know it was actually a known personality trait...

[Shiorevi]

As a young person who often thinks more than talks that ‘19 year old Thinker’ Wojak hurt me on multiple layers

[Earlybird]

I disagree with your take on the boomer. This is best represented by the antagonism the boomers have towards the millennial.

Boomers fundamentally fail to understand that society has changed and did so with the silent consent, often cheering, of their generation. So when the millenial makes a complaint the boomer is bewildered by his complaint because during the day of the Boomer he was able to build off of now defunct social institutions.

Millenial: "I can't find a good job."
Boomer: "I bought a house at 23 by working a job I found in a newspaper ad. You must be too lazy to get out there and look for a job."

[timetravelingoldman]

I'm 24 and I just don't know anymore... I just want to be happy. How do people do it? How do people just wake up and feel good about themselves? I feel like I'll ve broken forever

[SahnigReingeloetet]

M/19 here.
Been diagnosed with severe depression, gettin‘ strong antidepressants and am in regular therapy. Ain‘t easy, anything.
As far as I can remember, I never had any state of blissful childhood, I‘m a product of rape, lived in poverty for a large part of my life and often had only few friends. Grew up in a bad neighborhood. Only person I trusted were my parents, my mother is and always was fantastic, worked her ass off to feed my brother and me. Got burned out, suffers greatly from PTSD and depression. I do everything for her, just as she did for me, we talk, I do chores and I support her in what she does. My dad passed away 3 years ago, hit me hard because at the time I was living with him and he was able to provide a more blissful view of life, no financial struggle and so on.
After his funeral, I got my shit together. I socialized more and more and now have a plethora of friends who support and help me, I got off the drugs completely (3 years sober, yay) and even though I was majorly depressed, I carried my ass through school. Started eating healthy and working out (130kg bench press max, yay), am lookin‘ good now (before I was greasy and overweight, now I‘m more of a bear bulker lol). Got a sophisticated view on life. Commenting on the part of „the abyss“: just facing your demons and acknowledging them ain‘t enough, you gotta stare those motherfuckers straight in the eye and learn to live with them.
But life ain‘t ez pz lemon squeezy. I‘m lonely and greatly long for someone who loves me (in a romantic sense) and it‘s difficult to stay on track. The image of the „19 yo thinker“ partly also resembles me, because if it wouldn‘t be for my illusions, I‘d collapse I think. It‘s that howling ember inside me that pushes me forwards, even when I‘m laying in bed at 2am struggling to fall asleep and crying because those motherfuckers inside my head keep on haunting me and trying to pull me back in the darkness, I tell myself: „Breathe. Observe. You can do this, breathe some more, feel the embracing warmth building up inside of you, that is your flame guiding you even through pitch black darkness. Be a warrior, not only for you, but also for your mother and your friends. And become someone that somebody might love one day. Even though you might be broken forever, wear those scars with unfaltering pride. Be a guiding beacon.“ (or something along the lines of that).
It‘s not beautiful, I‘m a fool and I know that. It‘s not easy, it‘s hard and I know that. And it‘s not going to work forever, I know that. I just hope that someday I might be salvaged from this hell, by some gentle soul who isn‘t scared of what‘s inside me. Maybe someday.

[zevencross]

Daaamn. The part where it shows the Doomer looking at photo's of past fun times he had on Facebook and slowly starts crying hit me REAL good not gonna lie.

[this_way_that_way]

This is a great analysis but I think you conflate the boomer, who I think Does represent blissful ignorance, with the bloomer, someone who has seen the abyss of the doomer and made their own framework of optimistic nihilism and cheerfulness. However this is just my take, maybe you see a different role in the wise ignorance of boomer philosophy

[beardedwolf]

No the point of the boomer memes really is that they had it easy, they just think they had it as bad.

A boomer would tell you to pick yourself up by the bootstraps as a response to the devastated housing market for example.

[gianlucapetrera]

The image of the 19 yo thinker actually resembles the taiheki number 1 described by Itsuo Tsuda in his masterpiece "le non faire" (the not-doing) in a perfect way. I suggest you everyone to try to take a look to this kind of reading, especially if you are actually living this kind of situation. Types 1 have the tendence to transform all their impressions into some kind of mental activity: everything they see gets helplessly overthought and overanalyzed, It all works inside their head but actually nothing happens in the reality. They are unable to make a move and their senses are dulled and obscured by the excessive amount of energy they put into thinking processes. This is certeanly also a consequence of the way western thought has evolved since the formulation of the scientific method (descartes); and now for many people (mostly men) this kind of tendence has become an acual invalidation and they simply cant live.

[FrankBullitt]

When I was 23 I worked straight night shift for $12/hr and lived with my brother and dad. I'd come home from work and drink myself to sleep every day, which clearly turned into alcohol issues I deal with to this day (41). Best thing I ever did was go back to school at 25, by then I knew what I wanted to do and thankfully that part of life worked out for me. I am now self employed and love it. Life aint over at 23, its the figuring it out stage we all go through unless you're inheriting the family business.

[ethanhoefler]

MemeAnalysis: puts up 19 year old thinker slide

Me: oh, i think it might be me

[kektalks]

Philosophy runs deep in our life... Memes represents so many things in life that we just make it as a joke so we can spread our ideas easier.
Idk if this guy has a degree in philosophy, but he is good
Great content!

[RayMak]

I've been learning many new terms lately. Simps, incels, now doomers...