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Most emotional damage that I've seen comes in the good times phase. That's when genx's parents were born. In the good times everyone is free to do as they pleas

Most emotional damage that I've seen comes in the good times phase. That's when genx's parents were born. In the good times everyone is free to do as they please and have to find their own meaning, this creates weak men. Weak men create hard times. We're entering the really hard times now. When things really go to shit, you'll find your purpose and have to rely on others. That creates strength and good times, eventually.

navane 5y ago
Genx parents were born in 1925-45. Those were not good times.
- rednerrus 5y ago
  I guess I think of myself as genx when I'm actually geny.
cinntaile 5y ago
This is super obvious but I'll say it anyway. We have been living in the good times phase for many decennia now, so it's no surprise that you don't see emotional damage from the bad times phase.
- rednerrus 5y ago
  We've had perpetual war for the last 20 years. We've had increasing inequality. The temperature is rising, wages are stagnating, riots in major urban areas are becoming more common. These are not the good times. We have plenty to eat and too much technology but these are not what make the good times.
  - refurb 5y ago
    Perpetual war in a far off land that has pretty much zero impact on people at home. Inequality sure, but the economy has been on a tear in the US since the 90’s, contrast that with the decade of the Great Depression. And the riots now are nothing compared to the 60’s riots worldwide. The last 20-30 years have definitely been easy times for the developed world. Not without challenges (2008 crash) but relatively speaking easy times.
    - smackeyacky 5y ago
      I am not sure that is true. As an outside observer of the US I see a lot of highly trained, potentially dangerous veterans who came home to a pile of broken promises with broken psyches and sometimes broken bodies. There are now decades worth of these guys milling around in a society awash with firearms and blitzed with misinformation. It's a powderkeg that might just go off unexpectedly. Of course there are side effects to those middle east adventures.
ClumsyPilot 5y ago
Think about most hostile places, in the midst of civil war- do they produce the greatest people? In all times, the great philosophers, engineers, generals, scientists, etc. Were never made up of peoppe that suffered greaters hardship, that starved in the childhood. They were always elites, people with best education or at least middle class. We've run this experiment, there is zero evidence for it.
- rednerrus 5y ago
  People born in 1930: Clint Eastwood, Sandra Day O’Connor, Warren Buffett, Sean Connery, George Soros, Ray Charles.
  - ClumsyPilot 5y ago
    That's not a particularly impressive list, Steven Hawking was born in the 40's, Bill Gates was born in the 50,s, Bezos in the 60's. I am not seeing how 30's was a particularly 'strong' decade.

navane 5y ago

Genx parents were born in 1925-45. Those were not good times.

rednerrus 5y ago
I guess I think of myself as genx when I'm actually geny.

cinntaile 5y ago

This is super obvious but I'll say it anyway. We have been living in the good times phase for many decennia now, so it's no surprise that you don't see emotional damage from the bad times phase.

rednerrus 5y ago
We've had perpetual war for the last 20 years. We've had increasing inequality. The temperature is rising, wages are stagnating, riots in major urban areas are becoming more common. These are not the good times. We have plenty to eat and too much technology but these are not what make the good times.
- refurb 5y ago
  Perpetual war in a far off land that has pretty much zero impact on people at home. Inequality sure, but the economy has been on a tear in the US since the 90’s, contrast that with the decade of the Great Depression. And the riots now are nothing compared to the 60’s riots worldwide. The last 20-30 years have definitely been easy times for the developed world. Not without challenges (2008 crash) but relatively speaking easy times.
  - smackeyacky 5y ago
    I am not sure that is true. As an outside observer of the US I see a lot of highly trained, potentially dangerous veterans who came home to a pile of broken promises with broken psyches and sometimes broken bodies. There are now decades worth of these guys milling around in a society awash with firearms and blitzed with misinformation. It's a powderkeg that might just go off unexpectedly. Of course there are side effects to those middle east adventures.

ClumsyPilot 5y ago

Think about most hostile places, in the midst of civil war- do they produce the greatest people? In all times, the great philosophers, engineers, generals, scientists, etc. Were never made up of peoppe that suffered greaters hardship, that starved in the childhood. They were always elites, people with best education or at least middle class. We've run this experiment, there is zero evidence for it.

rednerrus 5y ago
People born in 1930: Clint Eastwood, Sandra Day O’Connor, Warren Buffett, Sean Connery, George Soros, Ray Charles.
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago
  That's not a particularly impressive list, Steven Hawking was born in the 40's, Bill Gates was born in the 50,s, Bezos in the 60's. I am not seeing how 30's was a particularly 'strong' decade.