One of the most reactionary and fallacious debates in Spanish (and Western) life has returned to our lives: the generational war of millennials against baby boomers. Hosted by the book by journalist Analía Plaza life in the canyons (Today’s Topics), which assures that the baby boomers are causing a sensation with their magnificent salaries or their pensions of 3000 euros, many have paid for houses and Imserso trips compared to the difficulty for their heirs, without the possibility of buying housing and with precarious salaries. It is not the first time and it will not be the last that a false debate is put forward to avoid talking about the structural problems that affect all generations, but now populism already infects any discourse and aggravates the perverse effect of scapegoating. As in this world we stop believing in God sooner than in capitalism, we leave aside the reality of class and gender to concentrate on a struggle of misery which breaks, or attempts to break, the union and solidarity between generations overwhelmed by inequalities.
We will leave aside the supposed online lynching suffered by the author, because with the exception of the brainless ones who do not know how to behave with their peers neither in X nor in life and who played with the color of their hair, most of the criticisms were founded and argued. Also because victimization has become a powerful marketing strategy, but that’s a topic for another column. Analía Plaza, whom I personally like and recognize for her sense of opportunity, was able to foresee the reactions when she decided that the main thread of her story of the collapse of the welfare state and the breakdown of the social elevator was going to be directed by Búmer Búmerez, married to Charo Chárez. The meme of retirees dancing because the house they bought for the price of a basket of raspberries is now worth a million euros. It’s a meme, not reality.
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