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I don't understand how historically every generation has strived to make the world a better place for their children with the exception of boomers. The greatest generation set them up for so much success, and they've done nothing but try to destroy everything for the kids that are coming after them. I'm Gen X and my biggest focus is trying to create something for my children, to have something to pass on to them, to save for their college so that they don't have to struggle like I did, and to leave them with a better world than the one I got handed.
"Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times," - G. Michael Hoof
The quote is men, but I believe it should be generations.
I heard one that goes "the first generation studies war so the next generation can study math so the next generation can study art" Then I guess the art pisses so many people off they go to war.
Or they fail the entrance exam to art school and restart the cycle.
Pretty sure that's just that one guy, or is this a trend?
A significant number of current day fascists... Ben Shapiro, Donald Trump, Steven Crowder...
They all wanted to be movie stars, script writers, actors, etc.
This is actually a broad trend, that some failed artists develop a megalomaniacal drive to 'be respected' in some kind of way, and that way is 'being a fascist'.
Honestly, you can see the same broad authoritarian personality traits in a much larger subset of artists who basically cannot accept criticism... more often then not they just end up as lolcows, or that one insufferably snooty person you know.
Hard times make hard men, hard men make soft times, soft times make soft men, and soft men make me hard.
They weren't called the "me generation" for nothing!
The Boomers somehow think they are the strong men, while in reality they are the weak men that were created by the good times, aka the most anamalously prosperous sustained economic boom in the history of the planet.
(Well maybe possibly with the exception of what China has managed in the last ~40 years, but then we get into a very complex discussion)
At risk of playing too hard into the GenX trope: You should be more outspoken about this, and not allow yourself to be ignored.
That's what happens when you give a human being everything. You actually need to be born and live through hardship in order to develop empathy.
This is why rich people are consistently sociopaths, with racial theories, and the like.