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[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Its a good thing everyone who shouldnt be driving can just decide to not drive and will not have their lives destroyed as a result!

[-] Salvo@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

No that is a problem with our society that we can do something about.

Unfortunately there are too many dinosaurs fighting for FrEeDoM and preventing any progress on Walkable Neighbourhoods.

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

is it the people who are currently old who are doing that? or is a system that creates people to perpetuate the system which does that?

[-] Salvo@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

You don’t have to be an old person to be regressive.

In my opinion, the people with the most world experience have always been the most progressive. It is a shame that The Silent Generation were not able to pass on their knowledge and experience to the current batch of misguided Millennials, Gen Y, Gen X and boomers who want things to be like they were in “The Old Days”, even though they don’t know how terrible “The Old Days” actually were.

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

My point was generations are not a viable way of expressing political issues, it’s capitalism the system not the dudes in charge

[-] Redhotkurt@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is a shame that The Silent Generation were not able to pass on their knowledge and experience to the current batch of misguided Millennials, Gen Y, Gen X and boomers

They would have, but the Silent Generation (born between 1928-1945), born and raised in a period of extreme mass unemployment, starvation, and death in the form of the Great Depression (1929-1939) followed immediately by World War II (1939-1945), took out their trauma on their Boomer offspring, so any lessons or messages they might have been trying to convey were lost in the cacophony of abuse. Keep in mind their parents, the so-called "Greatest Generation" (1901-1924), also survived the Great War (1914-1918) prior to that and already had a really warped view of the world. That's a lot of generational trauma heaped onto the Boomers, both directly and indirectly.

Those fuckin Boomer kids suffered through some pretty horrific abuse; they never stood a chance, man. It wasn't at all acceptable to talk about mental issues or even entertain the idea of asking for help (a norm established by their Silent Gen parents), so as they grew up they just buried that shit and went into eternal denial mode. Worse, they reinforced their fucked up worldviews by abusing their own kids, the Gen Xers and Millennials, who in turn passed on that same generational trauma to...sigh, you get my point. I mean, each generation does seem to get a little better at shedding that old toxic "stop complaining / fuck you, I got mine" mindset, but it's a slow process. Look at how far-reaching that shit is, FFS. That "Greatest Trauma" period was a hundred years ago, and we're still suffering from the effects.

TL;DR they were incapable because trauma

this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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