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> life stability Anyone born 1914 through 1945 experienced either one or two wars plus the post-war depression. Anyone born 1952 through to the early seventie
by georgespencer 6y ago
> life stability
Anyone born 1914 through 1945 experienced either one or two wars plus the post-war depression.
Anyone born 1952 through to the early seventies lived under the cloud of imminent nuclear holocaust (read interviews with those who lived in those times -- especially those with first-hand knowledge of the Cuban missile crisis -- and you'll realise just how certain people felt that they were going to be annihilated).
I think the mid-seventies onwards are the earliest you can say that people have had a sense of existential stability.
- joelbluminator 6y ago1) We also live under the cloud of nuclear holocaust, it's a bit less likely now but not 100% unlikely. We also have climate change and AI now which they didn't. 2) I was referring to baby boomers, so 1945 and after. Obviously people before that lived through unimaginable horrors as u said. And many of our parents were raised by traumatised parents, I'm not denying that.
- arprocter 6y agoThe seventies were pretty tumultuous in the UK - The Troubles, Winter of Discontent and then eventually the Falklands War in the early 80s
- georgespencer 6y agoAbsolutely agreed, but totally convinced that all of those pale by comparison of the existential threat which humanity as a whole experienced prior to that.