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Back in my day, it was Doom and GTA telling us to kill our parents. Back in my parent's day, it was Queen and The Beatles.

• TeMPOraL 2y ago
  > Back in my day, it was Doom and GTA telling us to kill our parents. Yes, and also worship Satan. But that's all soft-core, compared to what the school told us, encouraging us to read and ponder some truly hard-core works; I mean, have you heard the story of a king named Oedipus? ... ... Okay, that's a bit tongue in cheek. Now, this isn't. Poland has its own special kind of trauma about World War II, which among other things means exposing high-school kids to literature written about, or even in, Nazi death camps. Not the numbers or philosophy, but stories about victims, detailed accounts of their suffering, and the choices forced upon them. Now those stories can seriously mess you up at that age. People seem to turn out OK, but myself and peers I talked about it with, we all were emotionally broken by this, and we still flinch of fully processing the memories when talking about it. Maybe it's necessary, but I sometimes wonder if it's not too much, too early.