In general, it sure naturally would be better for children to grow up in times of piece, I guess. Times of violence and unvertainty - also create adults of violence and uncertainty. Which also bring forth another generation of that type...
I think this lack of connection to the past and history, which comes when peace times already last long, is also a part of why there are so many ridiculous beliefs, ambitions and phenomena out there, which currently gather most in a pot that's called "Identity Politics". It happens because people don't regard things that have been done or called a certain way for a long time with the story in mind what it sprung from. They just see everything with the eyes of the present - or whatever is their basic feeling or understanding of the present is like. So some come to regard something as "offensive" while barely anybody else looks at it that way and barely anyone has felt it like this for 30 years or so.
In a certain way, I think, even I can feel some of these basic generation struggles which have reached their peak now in the so-called "generation Y". The lack of a task to do, the absence of the "life should be better for your than for your parents", the absence of "wealth" that everybody gets promised for working hard... I think I can even already sense that in my path. The reality that I see is "connections matter more than being good at something; work hard and be the dumb idiot who gets kicked; obey and become unhappy with your life; do the right thing and get scolded for it" and, seriously, it's been this way 10 years ago already and even earlier than that. The world of "everything gets better day by day" is no more, when people way older than me talk about it. It even feels like mockery when people take their experiences from 30 to 40 years ago as a base for judging a young or not so young adult in the present days.
...And already I say that as someone who hasn't been born exactly into this time where people are fully affected by this development of things. So... how must people feel all the more who really are right in the middle of this?
...This all is interconnected with other things. Many other things... It ain't just a generation's stupidity which makes them blind to feel certain things. They're also what's been put into them - and if that's just tons of food, parents with boredom, egoistic parents, excess and then lack of possibilities, struggles and personal freedom to master them - to grow as a person from these experiences -, well, then you'll receive out of it just a bunch of spoiled kids which regard it as funny to kick someone to death on the floor.
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Date: 12 May 2019 09:18 pm (UTC)Times of violence and unvertainty - also create adults of violence and uncertainty. Which also bring forth another generation of that type...
I think this lack of connection to the past and history, which comes when peace times already last long, is also a part of why there are so many ridiculous beliefs, ambitions and phenomena out there, which currently gather most in a pot that's called "Identity Politics".
It happens because people don't regard things that have been done or called a certain way for a long time with the story in mind what it sprung from. They just see everything with the eyes of the present - or whatever is their basic feeling or understanding of the present is like.
So some come to regard something as "offensive" while barely anybody else looks at it that way and barely anyone has felt it like this for 30 years or so.
In a certain way, I think, even I can feel some of these basic generation struggles which have reached their peak now in the so-called "generation Y".
The lack of a task to do, the absence of the "life should be better for your than for your parents", the absence of "wealth" that everybody gets promised for working hard... I think I can even already sense that in my path.
The reality that I see is "connections matter more than being good at something; work hard and be the dumb idiot who gets kicked; obey and become unhappy with your life; do the right thing and get scolded for it" and, seriously, it's been this way 10 years ago already and even earlier than that.
The world of "everything gets better day by day" is no more, when people way older than me talk about it. It even feels like mockery when people take their experiences from 30 to 40 years ago as a base for judging a young or not so young adult in the present days.
...And already I say that as someone who hasn't been born exactly into this time where people are fully affected by this development of things.
So... how must people feel all the more who really are right in the middle of this?
...This all is interconnected with other things. Many other things...
It ain't just a generation's stupidity which makes them blind to feel certain things.
They're also what's been put into them - and if that's just tons of food, parents with boredom, egoistic parents, excess and then lack of possibilities, struggles and personal freedom to master them - to grow as a person from these experiences -, well, then you'll receive out of it just a bunch of spoiled kids which regard it as funny to kick someone to death on the floor.