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The goofy part about this type of generational cock contest meme is that we all live through it together. Every generation alive has gone through horrific shit and every generation has gone through periods of peace. Some for longer than others.
I'm a millennial and I have been pretty lucky if I may say so myself. Compared to what young people and kids go through today, us older generations had it good.
Yes, our times of youth also brought on wars and economic struggles and what not, but they came in intervals.
Nowadays it is all happening at the same time and at lightening speed.
And us peeps, boomers, Gen X and millennials sit here all smug about it, like we went through ANYTHING comparable to what young people go through today.
We had it good. We are lucky to all be in our 30s and up during this stretch of history. I feel for the youths of today. They are the ones going through some shit in their formative years.
The 2020s are happening to all of us, but the kids of today have way more worries thrust upon them than any of us old fucks ever did.
We had a lot of things pretty good. Since we don't have TV, I've spent the last year every weekend creating a 2.5 hour block of tailored programming to recreate the experience of Saturday morning cartoons for my kid, with selections from ~60 of the best (and some bad) cartoons from the last several decades, animated music videos, unearthed funny old clips, and modern indie animations, often with seasonal themes. Halloween is the most fun.
My toons are objectively better than the Saturday morning block ever was, and it takes hours every week to gather clips, edit, and manage where we're at with every show. I sometimes wish I could share it with a larger crowd but it's really not worth the expense, legal exposure, or effort - not to mention it's more special since it's just for my kiddo. I get to share the culture with him, with the crusts cut off. They don't have to put up with commercials, bad reception, or the constant ear-splitting blare of homophobia that was the nineties.
All that to say, that's the big picture too. Every generation we try to make things a little better for the young ones. Sometimes we're pretty envious of them, but we'd be failures if things were completely better when we were kids - and they'll have to work hard too, because in some ways we have been failing.
Haven't boomers been drafted to Vietnam by force? Like you had to go there to die, no options.
I think being forced to fight a war is pretty worse than most issues of people that age now.
At least we are talking about young people who live in active combat zones right now. I'm just taking the euroamerican centristic view on the matter.
Lol, well, if we go by that standard, then we can all ride the coat tails of the soldiers of every generation who were drafted to fight someone else's war. My country, per capita, were the country to lose the most men in Afghanistan. I have friends who went to Afghanistan and their experiences were varied.
But my point still stands: the bad in every generation came in intervals and affected groups differently. A lot of boomers had nothing to do with Vietnam just like a lot of Gen X and millennials had nothing to do with Iraq and Afghanistan.
But we all had slower lives and we did get to be relatively protected in childhood from the worst of the news out there.
In this day and age, youths and children are bombarded woth the most heinous shit 24/7 and it is everything, everywhere, all at once.
None of the prior generations have had back to back to back terrible world events happening like the youths of today have. We all live through it, but most of us are old enough and hardened enough by life that we deal with it.
I don't think it is a coincidence that anxiety among children and youths today has sky rocketed. And it isn't just news, it is also the negative effects of social media and that whole psychosis and how it distorts and perverts identity and self love nowadays.
There is no contest. It is not remotely anything our generations had to deal with.
And yeah, we can make a ton of whataboutisms where we pick out minority groups who went to war or were brought up in war torn countries. That has happened and will happen always.
But none of us old facts had the perversion of current day internet to deal with on top of intervals of this and that crisis and none of us had to deal with all our generations' crises all at the same time over the span of a few years. That is what I'm saying. We simply cannot imagine what it is like for the young ones today because their world is so far removed from the world we grew up in.
I am a millennial, neither an old or a young millennial, but an in the middle one. I grew up in a world without internet and had myself introduced to the world wide web in my teens. My childhood and teen hood is still much closer to that of a boomer's childhood and teen hood than it is the kids and teens today. I cannot comprehend what childhood even looks like or feels like for kids today. All I know is that anxiety and body image issues and thoughts of world problems have sprung from the mouths of kindergarteners and that is not something I have seen to this extent ever before.
I still think going to war is worse than watching some news about whatever on the tv or tiktok.
Btw, mental health issues are not on the rise. Diagnosis is on the rise. Before those same mental health issues existed and were undiagnosed and untreated, with terrible consequences. At least kids today are getting the help they need with mental health.
Good luck in the 80s trying to go to a doctor for anxiety, or to get any kind of mental health diagnosis or treatment as a kid.
And let's not even mention the constant house violence against kids that used to happen. Boomers and gen x were wildly beaten by their parents as a normal practice. Nowadays parents no longer hit their kids.
Child protection laws are way better in every way, many kids are no longer forced to stay with abusive families...
And of course there is a world in difference for an LGBT kid in the 80s compared to now.
I sincerely don't think there is any reasonable approach to defend that today kids "have it worse" than previous generation.