Never before in history has our lives been so different than that of our parents. We live in a world that my grandparents wouldn’t recognize. We live in a world that my great grandparents couldn’t comprehend.
They cannot prepare us for what’s to come. I fear we may not be able to do any better for our children. Perhaps all we can do is support them as best we can and hope that they’ll figure it out.
I don’t necessarily disagree with OP, it makes a good point, but I also think it’s really dangerous to make blanket statements like yours.
Some of my grandparents may have struggled with some aspects of technology (a couple actually loved everything cutting edge) but they also survived the holocaust, and considering the state of the world, were they still around, I think they would have a lot of extremely relevant insight and advice to provide.
I think the same applies to all those who managed to survive the atrocities of the past, and there is good reason we say that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Sure, ignore them telling you to walk through town handing out CV’s to businesses to get a job, or that you shouldn’t have a problem buying a house if only you worked full time, that’s all out of date, but the deadly cores of our society - capitalism and the bigotry and oppression it depends on, are just as dangerous as they were in the past, if not more due to both their now extended reach, as well as the growing desperation of the working class making us more easy to exploit.
Never before in history has our lives been so different than that of our parents. We live in a world that my grandparents wouldn’t recognize. We live in a world that my great grandparents couldn’t comprehend.
They cannot prepare us for what’s to come. I fear we may not be able to do any better for our children. Perhaps all we can do is support them as best we can and hope that they’ll figure it out.
I don’t necessarily disagree with OP, it makes a good point, but I also think it’s really dangerous to make blanket statements like yours.
Some of my grandparents may have struggled with some aspects of technology (a couple actually loved everything cutting edge) but they also survived the holocaust, and considering the state of the world, were they still around, I think they would have a lot of extremely relevant insight and advice to provide.
I think the same applies to all those who managed to survive the atrocities of the past, and there is good reason we say that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Sure, ignore them telling you to walk through town handing out CV’s to businesses to get a job, or that you shouldn’t have a problem buying a house if only you worked full time, that’s all out of date, but the deadly cores of our society - capitalism and the bigotry and oppression it depends on, are just as dangerous as they were in the past, if not more due to both their now extended reach, as well as the growing desperation of the working class making us more easy to exploit.
There are also some universal truths about human nature that still haven’t changed in thousands of years.
Everyone should read Plato’s Republic. He predicted the end of liberal democracy in a way that applies to the Weimar Republic and the Pax Americana.
The world is not ready for AI powered dick sucking robots
But I sure am!
This comment made me change my mind and upvote this shallow post.