Generational Cycles Coming Home to Devour Us

[jordan179]

(expanded from a long comment on cutelildrow's journal over here"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are

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[headnoises]

Each generation teaches the stuff they "wish they'd learned." Every couple of three generations, that means there's a big flipping gap; when that gap meets up with those who wish us wrong... ugh.

[mrbogey]

A great many millennials are ecstatic that the older crowd trends conservative. They can't wait till they die off. Because we all know old people are dumb.

[benschachar_77]

That's the worst part. Millenials are even more selfish, marxist, lacking in common sense, and lacking in basic logic than baby boomers.

Once the older people die off America will turn into a shitty socialist country like the rest of the world where the only different parties are basically different forms of socialism.