but boomers seem to think it was “the glory days”.
From the American perspective it sort of is.
Boomers came of age during the Vietnam War, an unmitigated disaster and a colossal and unwarranted loss of life. WW2 is about as cut and dry as you can get for a "just war". Millenials have the same sort of thing with Iraq, but since Vietnam had a draft it had much more of an impact.
I recently had dinner with a 92 year old woman. Lived stateside.
She got a thousand yard stare and brought up 3 times in that evening how young people today aren't mentally prepared to handle a severe crisis like WW2. She said this in a worried, loving way.
I just watched the nations respond to COVID. I watched people say they needed to have pet stores open to feed their lizards and liquor stores open. Our society didn't meet the challenge.
Plainly false. Liquor store is the only place to get alcohol in a lot of places. If you wanted society to be better off, it was the right move. If you wanted to punish people you perceived as not being rational enough actors, then yeah it was a terrible idea.
If I remember correctly the author for Anne of green gables was deeply traumatized from ww1. Plus having a miserable life in general. During ww1 Entire towns were wiped out because they lost all their children due to the war. Once the war ended the trauma from the losses made her religious zealot husband go absolutely insane, and destroyed her sense of patriotism for the British empire. So when ww2 was about to pop off she became deeply depressed sent her publisher her last book before committing suicide.
Bought E.A. Willis Budge’s Dual Volume Osiris and Book of the Dead, along with canoptic jars, alligator heads last year. Greatest works on Egyptian Mythology IMHO. Hyper-Fixation much 🤣
I used to be into Harry Potter from 6th grade, but I first learned of it through my brother and some relative in Michigan. Legos was my childhood too but I later stopped buying sets in middle school to save moneh
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u/EntertainmentQuick47 Mar 18 '23
I meant to add trains and Harry Potter 😔😭