The previous generation never seems happy with the next, at least since the 60s when young people were seen as godless hippies. Gen X and millennials were seen as incapable whiney slackers.
Most of us can remember being young, right? Did you see yourselves the way your parents' generation did? How do you view young people now?
I think it's impossible for the next generation to actually be accepted by the previous one. Is it because we become too judgey as we age? Or is it (hopefully) because we get wiser with age and know better about the folly youth can bring?
I look forward to the day a generation looks at the next and says "Young people these days. God damn we're proud."
@vivify saidYou might want to do more research on gen x.
The previous generation never seems happy with the next, at least since the 60s when young people were seen as godless hippies. Gen X and millennials were seen as incapable whiney slackers.
Most of us can remember being young, right? Did you see yourselves the way your parents' generation did? How do you view young people now?
I think it's impossible for the next ge ...[text shortened]... to the day a generation looks at the next and says "Young people these days. God damn we're proud."
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@Ponderable saidI “grew up” in the 60s (born in the mid 40s) and my parents, much to my surprise at the time, were very “liberal”. They were genuinely interested, though not always “on board”, with my life choices but said, “You’re not a child and you will learn”. I never got into anything that was crazy but what you might call experimental. I have children who were “handled” like I was and like me turned out OK. “Teach your children well”.👍
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Generations don't hate each other.
people don't understand each other.
And some people are disappointed if their experience is valued zero.
@Great-Big-Stees saidMy mother voted liberal, my father was a social-democrat. By tradition he should have voted as communist because that's what blue-collar workers were told to do at the shipyards but my mother absolutely refused. Apart from that, we never argued in our family, my parents were very nice and lenient.
I “grew up” in the 60s (born in the mid 40s) and my parents, much to my surprise at the time, were very “liberal”. They were genuinely interested, though not always “on board”, with my life choices but said, “You’re not a child and you will learn”. I never got into anything that was crazy but what you might call experimental. I have children who were “handled” like I was and like me turned out OK. “Teach your children well”.👍
i love philosophy threads
no matter what one might say, it ain't wrong, nor totally correct
what differences are there between an older generation and a younger generation?
the main difference, the myriad differences, or the whole of a culture, labeled tagged and shelved?
at what point is the overlap considered or discarded?
sweet youth and its vibrant, impetuous inexperience
versus
age and the wisdom that comes from having already touched the stove to learn what "hot" means
philosophy
dammit
+12 intenets for @vivify
and for questions that have been posed and go unanswered for eons
