@Bakke @nomebullyyou Evil is real....
Once successful societies including religions that encourage people to be evil are real....
Both all too common in recorded history.
Can also happen with broken people. I'm too old for the cultural Baby Boomer phenomena to be very relevant to me, but my early Silent Generation parents have played out somewhat similar games with all the children they took responsibility for.
In some ways not as bad I suppose, except for myself who took a firm no way in hell stance ... but are all these "boomers" genuinely broken people? Or what?
Here I'm asking people to take a step back and try to figure out what the hell is going on. What created so many people like this?
@ThatWouldBeTelling @Bakke They fell in love with money and the material world and lost sight of what's truly valuable. "Everything has a price" is only true if your soul is already in possession of the father of lies imho.
@ThatWouldBeTelling @Bakke To me it's simple: they had it too easy. Their parents went through the depression. They could have a white picket fence family life with a high school education. But at the same time they were led away from God and the fear of God. They weren't building grand cathedrals to worship God like generations before who had the same earthly ease and wealth. They were overstimulated with drugs and playboy and keeping up with the Joneses and birth control pills and feminism,etc
@nomebullyyou @Bakke Yes, yes, but why them? You're only touching on the what.
Human nature is immutable, but other generations before them weren't so bad.
Possibilities I'll throw out:
Social Security, iconic of the general conceit the government will take care of you, vs. your children. That money ... it's fiat, can be rendered worthless overnight.
Should note there's issues with too many people trying to cash out retirement savings from financial to real estate all at once.
Still, there should be emotional bonds between parents and children. Thus all that about the "Me Generation."
Suspiciously coincides with the availability to civilians of antibiotics, the same year of the first Boomers.
What were the influences that made a difference in various critical periods of a person's life? (Roundabout way of wondering about the Jewish hand in all this.)