Anyone here born in the '70s? Hell, was anybody here even born before Reagan left office?
From the level of discourse lately, I'm guessing there are very few who actively post. I'm still confident that there is a fairly sizeable contingent of lurkers still around.
What advice would you give to these kids today? For that matter, what advice would you give to the 1999 version of yourself?
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I'd tell myself to learn to spell. Jesus wept.
Yeah, I'm just lurking. I very rarely post anything.
I can't come up with a good answer to what I'd tell my 1999 self. I'm thinking it doesn't really matter to anyone else as it would just be about personal things I regret.
Fervently back the wrong politician? Challenge authority when all it did was put you non 'their' radar and accomplished little else? Inseminated the wrong female?
No one here but us. Might as well spill it.
Here I was born 1972. I like to read, I rarely participate in the discussion. Just to say that even older people like Pol.
Get rid of any degeneracy to later have fewer problems in life. Christianity. Moral. Zeal.
1977 here...
I am starting to suspect that I must be immature for my age.
What kind of 39 year old man likes Sup Forums and true capitalist radio?
Anyway I would not offer any advise to these kids, they will not listen just like we did not listen.
Everyone who host a podcast on TRS is over 40.
then there is Harold who is getting on 70.
Its no so odd.
What's mature? Browsing Quora while listening to Imus?
Reading suggestions?
For the younger people who may come across this, there are quite a few Sup Forums-related books worth reading that even my old computer illiterate ass was able to get for free online.
>1984
>Brave New World
>Culture of Critique
>The Redneck Manifesto
>Behold a Pale Horse
>Dirty Wars
If you get a hankering for fiction, The Turner Diaries is pretty easy to find, as is it's retarded little brother 'Hunter'. Sure, you'll probably get on a list for downloading them, but chances are good that you're already on one for being here in the first place.
Thanks for the tips, mate.
I've read most of it, of course, in book form. So there is no thought crimes list for me. You must still have a young mind to understand these things in pol. Intelligence grows only on existing intelligence. This is a daily task and never ceases.
>Hell, was anybody here even born before Reagan left office?
Born not in the 70s but before Reagan was in office. Your doo-blehs related.
Born in 88 not even lying
>Anyone here born in the '70s? Hell, was anybody here even born before Reagan left office?
I was born in 1836 and I can't die it sucks
Bitch, I was born before Reagan left office.
> as Governor of California.
Dorian, pls.
Born in 1975 here. I barely remember Jimmy Carter losing his run for second term. Remember Ronald Reagan very well. A lot of big happenings back then. Reagan didn't take any shit.
I was born before Reagan was elected. Despite the Cold War, America was a wonderful place back. The only advice I can give to kids is to learn from the mistakes of my generation. We let this degeneracy fester until it could explode in the new millennium. Don't give liberals and gloablists any quarter, eradicate them with extreme prejudice. Listen to the old ones left, we are your last chance to teach you how to be real men as we were taught.
Your world is being burned right out from under your feet. Educate yourself (not the liberal brainwashing for debt kind) and strengthen yourself. You will become a leader of men and a champion of the reconstruction.
We failed you, but you do not have to fail too.
Born in the 60's. Graduate degree in history and lD, now relatively successful attorney. I mainly lurk and find the bantz and awareness generally refreshing in a world of prepackaged lemming-like bs. I would have lots of specific advise for my younger self but largely situation specific advice. Generally I would tell my younger self to push harder, be more directed toward goals,worry less and do some traveling and adventures in downtime (to the extent I could have reasonably afforded it).
I was actually soliciting reading suggestions from you. I wouldn't insult another geriatric like myself with that entry-level shit; I just threw it out there for any youngsters that might be around.
>Behold a Pale Horse
this guy
Jd not Id.
1969 here
1982
1980
I'd tell 1999 me that everything turns out great and some personal stuff.
>What advice would you give to these kids today?
life gets easier as time goes on, either problems go away or you stop caring about them, so stop giving a shit
>what advice would you give to the 1999 version of yourself?
don't follow your dreams like a retard, focus on making money instead
The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind.
Its a fucking dense read, but man, what a ride.
Id tell my 1999 self about 9/11 and call the authorities a couple of days before and blame on the Jews
Your dreams are shit.
Learn to embrace your demise.
Born '65.
Advice? Stop thinking with you pecker and find a nice girl before you knock up one of those bimbos that's going to make your life a living hell and leave you broke.
born in 68, I lose.
80s analogues won't help you because this is a very different time. In the 80s we were comimg off steep inflation, very high unemployment, and recent oil supply shocks. The turnaroind in the 80s came from fed chairman Volcker's utter defeat of inflation which also coincided with the personal computing revolution. A deflationary boom resulted.
Now we have demographic decline, zero productivity growth and zero income growth. We're swimming in debt. There are no productivity silver bullets out there. Your future will.be deflationary bust, like the 1930s or Japan since 1988.
I don't know what will happen, but I know we're looking at about 10 hard years, followed by some kind of resurgence. The best things you can do are avoid debt, learn an irreplaceable trade, craft or thought process, and don't be a little bitch.
>Culture of Critique
Yes one suggestion:
Journey to the End of the Night (Voyage au bout de la nuit, 1932) is the first novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
Tremendous advice you should take as early as possible. Luckily I've fully digested this before hitting 30 because you see a lot of sad fucks who just never.let.go.
1973 here. id say life is short. if your city or town sucks, move someplace else thats more accomodating. and dont be an asshole to your parents.
Born in 1968 oldfag here. My advice is to read. A lot. You need several different versions of the same story to get the gist of anything. Even then, results may vary.
same age as this guy, i worked my ass off in my 20s. married at 23, still married. we're both portfolio managers, i run a hedge fund. from the moment we got married we never saved less than 30% of our income (top year we saved 95%). i went 5 years with no vacation.
wouldn't change a fucking thing. all that work means i don't take shit from anyone today, and my kids are fucking mightier than i was. they get the stabilty my childhood did not have.
1969 again.
This is my main news source and then I might go read stuff related to the info elsewhere to vet, also the humor on this board often gives me a good chuckle. I work nights and when I get home early in the morning I get comfy in bed and really split my sides at some stuff posted here. There are some really intelligent humorists on pol. No lie. I'm 48 but 32 mature wise.
Damn! And i thought i'm out of the norm being 30 years old with a wife and working in investment at Deutsche Bank.
Guess i'm not so alone after all
Celine, rare choice, the emptiness of that book was a lesson of sorts.
fellow 73 here.
this is good advice.
my home town was/is a decent place to live but wasnt for me, found a better place and happy I am here
1946 here, I remind them not to drink, do drugs, or do cigarettes
Keep a low profile. Don't believe (((their))) lies.
1969 again,
Where you gonna find them? Yes, stop thinking with your pecker but don't get married unless she is pure and not worldly, very very hard to find now.
>Check em
Celine also wrote other great books i must add. But i speak fluent french due to my wife being french. Not sure they have all been translated to english, but all worth a read
Yes, respect parents! 1969.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE IN THE BIG WAR
Dear Data Collectors, and 1999 Me:
You likely have some form of undiagnosed autism. Learn how to talk to people -- especially women -- now instead of waiting 10 years. Start traveling sooner. Do not visit Sup Forums. Buy land as soon as you can before the housing bubble starts to get insane. Short SPY with out-of-the-money puts in 2000 and 2008.
I was born in 99
1972 here. I started posting on Sup Forums after other message boards kicked the can. /biz/ got me here, then you fuckers kept raiding it.
>born in 1999
Future advice: Focus more on you career and work at age 18-25 and less on getting wasted and partying
You can thank me in 7 years
learned to shitpost on fuckedcompany.com those were the days
1979
Only advice I can give is to live for yourself. Contribute to starving the system that is enslaving you while maintaining the appearance that you're still part of it like everyone else. Read, read, read.
I learned to shitpost on Ogrish.com
Never heard of fuckedcompany.com
Was that before 1998?
Yeah, I start college next semester and all that.
There's a lot of social pressure to party and shit though, it's kind of annoying but I suppose I'll focus on school.
Plus I would imagine I'm going to have an easier time with girls when I have a stable career and life.
1999-2004 or so, it was much like this, but centered on making fun of dumb shit dot coms, with raids, trolls and doxxes galore.
I was a good looking boy back in the day. There were plenty of nice girls around then.
I was always looking for a bigger set of tits or a nicer little ass.
And I found them, my daughter's mother, tits like the Barbie twins, waist, legs and ass like a Barbie doll. Face like Jennifer Aniston w/ a little bigger nose.
Has ruined my life, my daughter's life, and everyone else's she's run across.
Exactly. Of course you shouldn't completly stay away from partying every now and then, but not college levels, just sometimes.
I'm 30 now and everyone i know who partied every weekend now has either a shitty job, problems with money, problems with drugs etc. and all the girls will look for someone with a stable career and life after age 25 anyway, the guys they partied with between 18-25 will be seen as losers.
So in the end: Always put career and a stable life first. You won't regret it once you turned 26
Continueing Also, i now can party on weekends without worrying about money, career or getting a girl.
It was worth the party-abstinence in my early 20s
there are plenty of girls who are top tier and laying low to avoid the gross party thing. they are the keepers but they are not obvious.
Do you think we have ten years? I hate to be an alarmist like our younger friends on the board, but the current global instability coupled with racial tensions and foreign-funded 'useful idiots' rousing the rabble potentially leading to civil insurrection doesn't seem to bode well for the immediate future.
For the moment, the petrodollar is still on top and Trump, despite (or because of) his buffoonery seems to have Putin in check. It just seems like a tenuous peace to me, and I honestly wouldn't be surprised no matter what calamities come our way.
Life has always been fairly predictable. This is the first time I've honestly felt uncertain of what the future holds.
>At the heart of this book is the revolutionary idea that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but is a learned process brought into being out of an earlier hallucinatory mentality by cataclysm and catastrophe only 3000 years ago and still developing. The implications of this new scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion - and indeed, our future. In the words of one reviewer, it is "a humbling text, the kind that reminds most of us who make our livings through thinking, how much thinking there is left to do."
A Princeton professor no less. Can't believe I hadn't heard of this.
Downloaded. Thanks.
It brings me great hope there are so many literal oldfags on Sup Forums. feels like we're drowning in underage b& most times.
i think we're facing a period analogous to 1935 - 1945. strongly recommend the book "The Fourth Turning." i don't mind alarming our based friends here, i'm here to tell them to buckle up for some major, major shit. someone has to be honest with them for once.
'77
We live in a determinist world. (You) can change nothing.
we lack maturity, but you should know that even when you are an oldfag that the retarded shit you read here will still be hilarious
roleplaying
it's been over a decade guys
Born in 1964.
My advice?
You'll survive this. You have to. Things always change. Learn to keep yourself alive and provide for yourself, and YOLO is real. Go for it. Nobody gets handed their dream. Wanna be an actor? Go do it. Want to be a rock star? Start a band. Want to be a millionaire? Go start working for the other millionaires, watch them, do what they do.
Rules are for suckers. "Doing the right thing" gets you NOWHERE these days, you have to cheat a little to get anywhere.
Be ruthless, or you'll get taken by someone else who's more ruthless. Victim is not a sign of success.
Develop good habits now, it'll pay off later in a big way.
Never trust women, addicts, or politicians.
Use birth control.
Learn to think for yourself. The news tries to scare you, on purpose, all the while, the sun rises, birds chirp, flowers bloom. Learn to figure out what's real, and what's bullshit.
If someone tells you to not bother reading something - read it. Carefully. Take nobody's word for anything.
If you don't understand all of it - don't sign it. If they won't give you time to read it - walk away.
Don't trust women.
Never set yourself on fire, to keep someone else warm.
Learn to cook.
Never buy 1.0 of anything. Wait for version 1.2, if you can. Unless work is paying for it.
ASK for raises and promotions, don't wait for them to be offered. If you don't get at least one raise a year, go find someone who will give you more money. Nobody is gonna look out for you.
Do it yourself.
Don't let the media tell you who you are. Be yourself, don't worry about what they say about you. Your music, your fashion, your hobbies, your lifestyle? They belong to you - fuck them for trying to mold you into what they want.
Learn to travel light. Stuff weighs you down. You don't need 75% of it.
Don't trust women.
Pay your taxes, and your bills. Just fucking do it. No, that video game is not more important.
Live a life, that you have stories about after.
For all the old fucks in this thread.
I wish I could have seen this world. But I grew up in a different time. I don't think interactions like this happen today. Not like that.
You guys got the good world. We'll fight for the scraps. Every couple generations it happens.
This video makes me wish America was still like this though. Seems like good times.
Network, Save, buy stock after any major correction.
I think many on here just do the shitposting etiquette so it seems like we are all very young
born in 84, was about to post the same thing.
Don't get married, don't borrow money, your parents are smarter than you think.
good post dude
I'm just 1986 but i agree with all of this, also let me add a saying we have in Germany:
>Verlass dich auf jemanden und du bist verlassen
in english it means:
>Rely on somebody and you'll end up alone/left behind
Wordplay only works in german, but the meaning is the same
87 here but I spent most of my life between BBS/forums and moving.
When I talk to people 5 years older than me I feel like im talking to children. I have both fear and joy for the path ahead.
>Also If I told 99 me that I would be a staunch National Socialist and proud and college is meme, I would be confused but at least I would hope I listen.
Don't forget bitcoin
Do your kids do anything, or do they just live off your sweat? If I had bank, I honestly wouldn't care if my kids were trust fund babies. In fact, I'd probably prefer it so they didn't get hurt.
The world has teeth, and if it's within your means, why not give your child everything you never had? Why not keep them away from the predators and killers and human viruses that go from host to host sucking out all they can before leaving a broken husk?
Pamper the shit out of them, let them knock up some private school broad and let them make some new rich assheads that think they got there because of how smart they are.
I honestly see nothing wrong with that. What's the point of success if it fades with your eulogy? That's a poor person's perspective anyway.
1967 niggas
Lift
Be more confident around women
Fuck more pussy
Fuck more guys
It is a good time to be old. House is paid for, enough in the bank to maintain my lifestyle until 80, only working for something to do and health insurance.
79
Things I wish I had done better in my youth
>take care of your body, eat healthy
>manage your money better, don't spend hundreds at the bar every week
>stop buying dumb shit you don't need
>be more social, go to every social event you are invited to
>don't ever let a woman rule your world
I agree with everything except
>go to every social event you are invited to
This only works if you are rarely invited.
See:
Bust your ass and do without until you can afford one of these.
When I say social event, I don't mean partying, drugs or alcohol. I wish I had spent more time with friends and grown my social circle bigger. I was a bit of a shut in when I was younger.
That's true and i agree.
Crazy world we live in.
I wish you well. Assuming you speak truth.
>tfw you'll never hear a "Hitler did nothing wrong" redpill parody of the sunscreen song
Question.
Has anyone here felt absolutely bored with life? No career options seem interesting, no drive to succeed, no motivations, a nihilism mindset. I'm obviously not autistic enough to an hero.
If you have then what changed to get you out of that rut?
Yes, some born in 70's here too...
Reminds me of another lesson
Dont lie.
Even if it seems like a good idea, you will get caught and the energy it takes keeping it up is 10x more at least then working for forgiveness.
All the drugs and partying are aging you fast.
I'm 36 now and people think I'm a kid. Drinking/smoking/drugs destroyed my dad's side of the family, scared me off the stuff when I was a kid. Never looked back, don't know what I'm missing, don't care.
So right now I'm thirty fucking six years old and I can hang around local college campuses and the students just think I'm a senior.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
You need to find something to live for. Something you enjoy doing that you are good at. Keep searching until you find yourself.
What do you do on campus?
>quora
Thank you, Mr. Pres--uh, I mean user.
I was born before Nixon left office.
My advice is lurk more newfags
I think I've learned that one enough. Hopefully. Time will tell. It seems like the problem with trying to give life advice is that everyone wants to go and test it out anyway.
Easier said than done, but still true. I guess I just lack the introspection required to see what exactly I enjoy doing, it's not like I have any specific hobbies.
I guess it's just one of those things that come with time.
Does it not make you sick to see what is happening to the country?
How many different careers have you had?