Are we going to war?

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(07-18-2023, 10:44 AM)GMDino Wrote: And to add to this I have to laugh at the "this generation is lazy, weak, blah blah blah".  

In general every generation thinks the one before was stupid and the one after it isn't as good as they are.

These kids are weak or lazy...they are different.  They have a different life experience than we did or our parents did.  They had had the benefit of the internet their entire lives and can see what happens outside the bubble of their neighborhood/family.

I know kids who have signed up for the military, joined the police, protested guns, became involved with politics at an earlier age that we did...they are all over the map.  Just like we were.

And maybe, just maybe, if WE could break the pattern of "these kids don't know how hard I had it" and just let them fix the problems that made it hard, then maybe we'd have a better country and a better world.

Being an older American requires that you talk about how everything was awesome back in the good old days when you grew up but you simultaneously had it harder than young people who are growing up now in times that suck but they also somehow have it too good and their lives are too easy. 

Every generation graduates into adopting this mindset. I call it the wisdumb of the aged.