Anonymous #1 5d

What have you done to help Gen Alpha?…see how that works? Generational shit is as stupid as racial and ancestral shit.

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Anonymous ___joker__ 5d

Ooooooh I see what you mean, yeah that’s fair, though I will say I am TRYING to help where I can but it’s not like I had what the older folks had. Plus I should specify I’m more referring to older generations in power. A lot of modern young leaders (not all) have been doing a lot to help repair things, like Greta.

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Anonymous #1 5d

Greta stands on the shoulders of her parents though? That’s obvious. Like yes, older generations can affect younger generations, but it’s not some collective gestalt consciousness of greedy old people. They were equipped for their world, but aren’t equipped for ours. That’s what I mean when it goes both ways.

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Anonymous ___joker__ 5d

You know, you make a good point, a lot of the good we can do comes from the good from before. That said I do still feel a lot of modern day problems have their origins from the fear and entitlement of the previous ones. Not some collective elderly cabal but stuff like the Cold War and old timey segregation. Then again to be fair a lot of that came from THEIR elders. I guess I am making it less complex than it is.

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Anonymous #1 5d

It’s hard. Not something I think that’s worth shitting all over you for or anything 🤷‍♂️ Not like I didn’t use to be a “boomers are bad” type of dude. My change came when my former boss, who was 36, was still blaming her parents for material shit.

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Anonymous #1 5d

A really hard conceptual one is try putting yourself in the shoes of people from like 1700-1800. A good majority were racist as fuck, and we know that much…but their worldview and rationale were different back then. That’s not to excuse it by any means and not say it obviously hasn’t effecting things…but I can’t even conceptualize it because that’s how foreign it is…and to them it was normal 🤷‍♂️This is an extreme example though

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Anonymous #1 5d

The Boomers generation are more complex than I think we give it credit for. I don’t think boomers thought shit would go the way it did economically because why would they? The Silent generation carried us through Civil Rights and WW2…but even they had it easier than the generation before them, who were dying at early ages and having 10 kids and only 3 would live.

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