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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8990577" data-attributes="member: 7006">Part of that I think is that Gen X was the first generation to really get into social media discourse (like message boards) when we were bringing about new socio-political discourse.&nbsp;&nbsp; When the 'net became a &quot;thing&quot; starting around '95... we Gen Xers were around 15-30 years old and thus were the original &quot;young people&quot; on the 'net talking up all our social philosophy.&nbsp; But as the Boomers ahead of us were much less online ... we could rant and rave about our political feelings and idiologies with much less pushback and disagreement.However, now that Millenials and Gen Z are the new &quot;young people&quot; online and have their particular social philosophies and feelings of right-and-wrong... they find us &quot;olds&quot; are also still here and are more inclined to get argumentative about it.&nbsp; They don't have a completely new and open realm for which they have free reign... they have to share it with us.&nbsp; Or at least have to share it with us in certain locations-- Gen Z can probably talk about D&amp;D's social philosophy on SnapChat or TikTok and will find not as much disagreement... because Gen X doesn't tend to be on those apps.But on places like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, or message boards like this?&nbsp; You'll find a good large number of greying-haired folk still hanging around, ready to disagree with &quot;those darn kids today!&quot;&nbsp; So of course the socio-political side of Dungeons &amp; Dragons will be much more prominent, and much more prone to disagreement.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8990577, member: 7006"] Part of that I think is that Gen X was the first generation to really get into social media discourse (like message boards) when we were bringing about new socio-political discourse. When the 'net became a "thing" starting around '95... we Gen Xers were around 15-30 years old and thus were the original "young people" on the 'net talking up all our social philosophy. But as the Boomers ahead of us were much less online ... we could rant and rave about our political feelings and idiologies with much less pushback and disagreement. However, now that Millenials and Gen Z are the new "young people" online and have their particular social philosophies and feelings of right-and-wrong... they find us "olds" are also still here and are more inclined to get argumentative about it. They don't have a completely new and open realm for which they have free reign... they have to share it with us. Or at least have to share it with us in certain locations-- Gen Z can probably talk about D&D's social philosophy on SnapChat or TikTok and will find not as much disagreement... because Gen X doesn't tend to be on those apps. But on places like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, or message boards like this? You'll find a good large number of greying-haired folk still hanging around, ready to disagree with "those darn kids today!" So of course the socio-political side of Dungeons & Dragons will be much more prominent, and much more prone to disagreement. [/QUOTE]

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