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In reply to the discussion: Yes DU trends to an older audience. [View all]Model35mech
(2,047 posts)They persist and show up in younger people. If not in -your- locality then in others.
Unfortunately, the tug-of-war that is political bickering over generational predelictions of human nature is unlikely to ever end.
This suggests that age isn't a factor.
BUT
Human nature seeks freedom. And it resents how earlier generations have produced a world that later generations MUST deal with as the starting point for their generations' inevitable reign over humanity.
Being rebellious against the illogic, fact depauperate acceptance of the increasingly out-dated views of one's elders is NORMAL.
The "Greatest" generation was pretty sure the "Boomers" were going to wreck the Greatest Generation's world. I am one of those who hope that REALLY has happened.
The internet just makes that rebellion much more present to everyone's face. We need to deal with our feelings about that.
Younger people than boomers have perspectives that go beyond the lives of Boomers, and also come up short on not seeing that Boomers were handed huge problems from their parents and grand parents.
I, for one, am sort of glad my grandparents generation produced Roosevelt and the New Deal, and I am sort of glad my parents generation put an end to Hitler and his brand of fascism.
I think my grandparents had little understanding of the limits of nature, the impacts of pollution, and the consequences of 1st and 2nd generation herbicides. I think my parents generation dreaded gifting Boomers unprepared for the responsibility control over Atomic Weapons.
I am greatly saddened that Boomers, who, believe it or not, celebrated en masse the 1st Earth Day, are seen as the cause of our environmental crisis of Climate Change rather than a substantive wave of Earth Guardians.
Yes, younger people are situated in the human timeline. And that MUST mean problems of that their predacessors didn't solve, maybe didn't even recognize are percieved as threatening clouds of doom over their lives.
It really is like that for EVERY generation.