09-30-2019, 07:24 AM
(08-31-2019, 04:50 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: In the post-WW2 period there was a lot of anti-technology sentiments. Beatniks and hippies wanted to go back to nature, 1970 anarchists destroyed computers and after the Chernobyl disaster anti-nuclear sentiments became mainstream.
And then millennials came, trusting technology as no generation since the GIs. I know this is what S&H predicted, but what specific reasons made millennials develop this way?
I think a lot of it is that their life experience taught them *not* to trust people, at least not as a collective for solving problems. Democratic government isn't working very well, but smartphone apps, on the other hand...
Steve Barrera
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[A]lthough one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation. - Hagakure
Saecular Pages