While generational thinking can be helpful in some respect, it feels as though its a rather artificial construct designed to separate us even further. An abstraction,lense,or filter that really clouds and clumps reality into the simple to digest but unfortunately commonly fulfilling soundbite for people to clench onto in attempts to understand our complex word in a simple way, yet in return it becomes distorted and IMO a mostly un-useful wide eye'd view of reality. At the end of the day, although babies born in different era's do grow up in different worlds, there really is no cut off date or magical switch that changes the people and the idea of putting a date on such an undefinable thing seems poetic at best but hardly useful.
Just as a globe of the earth is equally correct if you flip it what we would see as "upside-down", we just decide a way to be correct, people fearing the ambiguous and needing an answer. but it the great scene of the cosmos, the earth has no proper orientation and the people living on it have such desire to define everything, to name everything, to classify everything, ect.. when at the end of the day, it's just a shit load of people often dealing with similar struggles and emotional outrage as people of the past but just through new ways and different more sometimes more visible mediums.
" Often, things that exist in the world from your birth and through childhood is a natural part of the world, things introduced to the world when you are a young to mid-aged adult is new and exciting, and things introduced after that is against the natural way of the world"
that quote obviously doesn't always hold true and isn't completely relevant, but I feel it draws some parallels into generational thinking and to why if you do extensive research into writings about previous generations even before the boomers, you see A LOT of the same terrible things said about the young people of that day, much like you hear about the millennials today or the boomers in their day. Makes you wonder, could it be that the old just don't understand the young? or That tradition is always dying and reshaping leaving hard ache in those who cherished it? or that young people have always been "crazy" in some sort of way while they journey through their early development? . the answer is yes, and we'll continue to go through he saga of "young people today .. followed by negative remark" forever so long as people keep allowing generational thinking to take any kind of center stage in framing their world
----p.s. this isn't any kind of attack on you, just sharing my thoughts
Thanks for the well thought and informative rely, and I agree with what you said I stated previously,since the 19th C , there is a saying "each generation is worse than the last"', it is evident from history and literature it is a fact that previous generations saw younger generations inferior to them. Is tat fact or opinion? I dont know, I am no one to judge, but the contrition of each generation in shaping the world. Newtonian mechanics developed in the 17th and 18h C Newton himself, although we know hey do not apply for objects travelling a he seed of light, they are pivotal for basic mechanisms of physical objects, and without understanding his laws it would no have been possible for Sputnik or Apollo to escape Earth's gravitational pull and pave away for space ravel 200 years after his death, but at the same time we cannot use one person to judge all people of a time (though the 17th C-20th C was the golden age of Scientific advancement and many other great scientists made their contribution at this period, great scientists like Copernicus and Galileo were there earlier but it was i Newton's time science was revolutionized) , the 17th C was a period of immense warfare and chaos, the 30 years war the deadliest religious war in history (an intersect war between Catholics and Protestants at the height of papacy era) had claimed the lives of 15 million, which is almost similar to WW1 but astonishing given the low population of barely half a billion of the world then. They were uneducated cults sacrificing anything for the sake of their religion but led to the downfall of papacy and age of reformation . Imagine if nuclear weapon were discovered in the 1600s, the world would have been destroyed and we would never even be born today.
Almost 400 years later modern day Christians are among the most peaceful people there are and people do not even want to believe the violence they had been involved in since the days of Constantine in the ancient age. What we should take notes of is the good things done by previous generations and take the progress further (whats next after manned mission to the Moon? manned mission to Mars) and avoid the mistakes of the past generation and teach the future generation to do so. Instead of criticizing the future generations,our responsibility should be to teach them to make the world a better place, and their duty is to learn form older generations and not act like "know it all arrogant fools who in reality are ignorant and know nothing", not saying they do just a belief by most older gens, especially the Boomers, it is fault of both the past generation to be prejudice against the younger generations sand the younger generations to think they are smarter than previous generations wen they live their lives with the contributions made by past generations. The older and younger generations must work together to build a better world......
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True to that, but thats the way with most classifications in ranges.
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While generational thinking can be helpful in some respect, it feels as though its a rather artificial construct designed to separate us even further. An abstraction,lense,or filter that really clouds and clumps reality into the simple to digest but unfortunately commonly fulfilling soundbite for people to clench onto in attempts to understand our complex word in a simple way, yet in return it becomes distorted and IMO a mostly un-useful wide eye'd view of reality. At the end of the day, although babies born in different era's do grow up in different worlds, there really is no cut off date or magical switch that changes the people and the idea of putting a date on such an undefinable thing seems poetic at best but hardly useful.
Just as a globe of the earth is equally correct if you flip it what we would see as "upside-down", we just decide a way to be correct, people fearing the ambiguous and needing an answer. but it the great scene of the cosmos, the earth has no proper orientation and the people living on it have such desire to define everything, to name everything, to classify everything, ect.. when at the end of the day, it's just a shit load of people often dealing with similar struggles and emotional outrage as people of the past but just through new ways and different more sometimes more visible mediums.
" Often, things that exist in the world from your birth and through childhood is a natural part of the world, things introduced to the world when you are a young to mid-aged adult is new and exciting, and things introduced after that is against the natural way of the world"
that quote obviously doesn't always hold true and isn't completely relevant, but I feel it draws some parallels into generational thinking and to why if you do extensive research into writings about previous generations even before the boomers, you see A LOT of the same terrible things said about the young people of that day, much like you hear about the millennials today or the boomers in their day. Makes you wonder, could it be that the old just don't understand the young? or That tradition is always dying and reshaping leaving hard ache in those who cherished it? or that young people have always been "crazy" in some sort of way while they journey through their early development? . the answer is yes, and we'll continue to go through he saga of "young people today .. followed by negative remark" forever so long as people keep allowing generational thinking to take any kind of center stage in framing their world
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Thanks for the well thought and informative rely, and I agree with what you said I stated previously,since the 19th C , there is a saying "each generation is worse than the last"', it is evident from history and literature it is a fact that previous generations saw younger generations inferior to them. Is tat fact or opinion? I dont know, I am no one to judge, but the contrition of each generation in shaping the world. Newtonian mechanics developed in the 17th and 18h C Newton himself, although we know hey do not apply for objects travelling a he seed of light, they are pivotal for basic mechanisms of physical objects, and without understanding his laws it would no have been possible for Sputnik or Apollo to escape Earth's gravitational pull and pave away for space ravel 200 years after his death, but at the same time we cannot use one person to judge all people of a time (though the 17th C-20th C was the golden age of Scientific advancement and many other great scientists made their contribution at this period, great scientists like Copernicus and Galileo were there earlier but it was i Newton's time science was revolutionized) , the 17th C was a period of immense warfare and chaos, the 30 years war the deadliest religious war in history (an intersect war between Catholics and Protestants at the height of papacy era) had claimed the lives of 15 million, which is almost similar to WW1 but astonishing given the low population of barely half a billion of the world then. They were uneducated cults sacrificing anything for the sake of their religion but led to the downfall of papacy and age of reformation . Imagine if nuclear weapon were discovered in the 1600s, the world would have been destroyed and we would never even be born today.
Almost 400 years later modern day Christians are among the most peaceful people there are and people do not even want to believe the violence they had been involved in since the days of Constantine in the ancient age. What we should take notes of is the good things done by previous generations and take the progress further (whats next after manned mission to the Moon? manned mission to Mars) and avoid the mistakes of the past generation and teach the future generation to do so. Instead of criticizing the future generations,our responsibility should be to teach them to make the world a better place, and their duty is to learn form older generations and not act like "know it all arrogant fools who in reality are ignorant and know nothing", not saying they do just a belief by most older gens, especially the Boomers, it is fault of both the past generation to be prejudice against the younger generations sand the younger generations to think they are smarter than previous generations wen they live their lives with the contributions made by past generations. The older and younger generations must work together to build a better world......