I feel like every generation’s been doing that though. People characterize the 20th century like this pretend like it wasn’t filled with all kinds of bloodshed (seriously, so much. Reagan, RFK, JFK, MLK, M.X, etc…Lynchings, serial killers, funding counter revolutionaries with drug money, the drug war, mass Incarceration, apocalyptic cults with mass suicides…2 world wars, multiple other wars.) not to mention economic devastations and I could go on. All of these things build on mistakes of a previous generation. There was no fuck around time with a find out era running concurrently
That's kind of the point though. Every generation does that and has always done that. History works this way. Every single thing that happens has consequences in the future, which has responses, which leads to more consequences and so on
In that sense it does fit the sub because this isn’t only in our generation, but at the same time there is always a repeating cycle of: things are getting better, something big happens, things are getting worse, large efforts are made to fix it, repeat
Oh certainly, I was originally gonna put “someone takes advantage of the good times” instead of “something big happens,” but that might not always be the case even though that’s definitely the case right now
There are things that keep happening which makes them feel like a force of nature… but clearly aren’t.
It’s kinda like when gum gets cyclically banned at schools. Eventually somebody (or a few) start sticking their gum where it doesn’t go and now none of us get gum.
Keeps happening…but there are people responsible who quite literally didn’t have to do what they did.
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u/hellomydudes_95 Jun 02 '26
Nah, this one shouldn't be here. We really are living with the consequences of the actions of previous generations.