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Originally Posted by
Nicholas Laureys
Anti this is fun generational warfare porn but did you notice how Hanson has to uplift the Silent Generation in order to shit on their children, the Boomers?
Who raised the Boomers (who turned out to be constitutional-republic destroyers)? That Silent Generation.
And who raised the Silent Generation, who turned out to be POS parents?
The GI Generation?
And who were the shitty parents who raised that generation, the Lost Generation? But they were too busy trying to survive and create a new life after the Industrial Revolution and the novel spread of Media (they actually were the 1st to get exposed to this IIRC), weren't they?
So, I guess the Lost's have the best excuse for being shitty parents and creating the seeds of each subsequent generation, where the Silent's eventually birthed the society-destroying Boomers, but who cares who had the best excuse for failure, right? How does identifying the generation that had the worst challenges change anything?
....Do you see where this is headed...?
If anyone else out there also has/had friends or family who were/are failures in some area of their lives, you know how useless it is to figure out that, no, this person isn't actually a psychopathic POS human, XYZ just happened to them in their formative years, which caused them to have this awful character and behavior, but....who the fuck cares? Having the best excuse for becoming a shitty person or crappy standard bearer of society of course doesn't help you at all, as you wallow in despair and complaint, but, MORE IMPORTANTLY, it doesn't help your descendants in any way!
-->The best way to improve your character and behavior, to improve your interpersonal relationships, so that your kids and grandkids do better than you, is to STOP the decisions and behavior patterns that led to this awful mess....just CHOOSE to stop them and STOP wasting energy worrying about how unfair it is that YOU have been left with this mess to fix (when your father made all these child-rearing mistakes, and his father was a crappy parent, and the Silent Generation raised shitty kids, too, wah wah wah...)
So, the solution to fixing this generational warfare mindset (or inter-generational blaming-your-family mindset) is to strive to be the best parent/person you can be, so that your kids hopefully will build better families and societies, or at the very least will have so few childhood traumas that they hopefully will repeat your positive approach to family, so that eventually we break this chain that the Lost's set up for the GI's set up for the Silent's set up for the Baby Boomer generation set up for the Millenials.
Current behavior of us Millennials (I'm among the oldest, about to turn 41) does not give a whole lot of hope! But, I'm hoping that our widespread access to various self-improvement and psychology (and strength-training!) materials on the Internet (without needing the filter of a psychotherapist whom you pay to blame your problems on others) will help. So, hopefully us Millennials will start choosing en masse to break these unhealthy chains and raise our kids in ways that don't allow the mistakes of all these previous generations of Americans to once again gather enough momentum to ultimately destroy the society and culture.