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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
Yes but we seem to be in a downward spiral here:
Founding Fathers
Pioneers
Gold Rush
Civil War/ending slavery
Industrial Age
Electricity, phones, cars, planes, light bulbs, radio and so on
Robber Barons (Rockefeller, Getty, etc)
Teddy Roosevelt breaking up monopolies and creating the Middle Class
World War One
The 1920's Flappers/Jazz Age/silent films
The Great Depression/World War Two/Defeat Hitler/Atomic Bomb (the "greatest" generation)
And then....
Baby Boomers
Generation X
Millenials
Borg Babies (half human/half smart phone)
Yeah, we're doing GREAT!!!
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I think life just got easier for a lot of people in the western world after WW2 so they don't have the same perspective on life as those that dealt with really harsh times. When life gets easier, people stop worrying about the necessitates and start either getting greedy, lazy, and/or create unnecessary drama.
I have a fondness for people from "The Greatest Generation" because they survived hard times that those in the west that came after can't even imagine experiencing as a whole, and also because I've only ever seen them as "old" during my lifetime... so we look at them through different eyes. But if you analyze, many from that era were racist, non-accepting individuals who set the stage for the Boomers me-first generation and perpetuated the societal hierarchy and rules.
And the stuff that I've read about the Robber Barons era is very equivalent in my mind to the millennial's social media era. A lot of complete nonsense and waste in the name of social status and "likes".