Reply #18: I've noticed about younger adults

[Beausoleil]

that most of them have only lived through the Clinton 90's and the Bush 00's. They didn't live through the housing crash and high interest rates of the 80's. They've never seen people being thrown out on the street, or the that only mortgage you could get was at 18% and they think it can't happen to them.

Come to think of it, they didn't live through the Vietnam War, the energy crisis and gas lines, and Nixon administration in the 70's. They didn't live through the JFK assassination, riots in the big cities, anti-war protests, RFK and MLK assassinations of the 60's.

They really don't know how a lot of things can disintegrate and how bad things can really get. Now most of the really bad things are happening all at once, which is difficult enough for those of us who lived the 60's, 70's and 80's to know how to put in perspective. They must have a lot of "it can't happen here" moments.

I hate to generalize, and I'm sure that there are plenty of aware, worried younger adults (especially on DU), but most of these younger folks don't know what excretion is about to hit which appliance.