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That's true. But at the same time, for many people, what they want to do is to carry on a legacy and contribute to something larger than themselves. A culture
by munificent 6y ago
That's true.
But at the same time, for many people, what they want to do is to carry on a legacy and contribute to something larger than themselves. A culture that forces all young people to build from scratch denies those opportunities just as surely as a culture that forces everyone to follow in their parent' footsteps denies opportunities to start afresh.
- lostcolony 6y agoI think it really depends on the legacy. I mean...how many of the misty eyed people commenting are doing the same thing one of their parents do/did, or wishing they were? I certainly am not.
- munificent 6y agoI am not either. But I also would not want to make any moral claims that would make it harder for those who do want to follow some legacy. And, honestly, my disconnection to my past and structures larger than myself is a source of unhappiness for me. I don't know if I would necessarily advocate for my own life choices. I think I made the best choices I could at the time based on what I knew then, but there are real downsides to building a life more or less from scratch.