The New Nurture Is Already Developing

[Eric the Green]

(04-27-2022, 05:36 AM)galaxy Wrote: This article is the highest-profile, but there's been a lot of discussion of this lately, whether in film, television, and literature, or on social media. Society is already in the mindset that will raise a new generation of Prophets/Idealists.

https://www.vox.com/culture/23025832/eve...urning-red


I have mixed feelings about it. For people my age it really does feel like we are the generation that will correct all of the failings of our own parents, but that's what the GIs and Silents thought too, and look how the Boomers turned out. Not well.

There's a real comfort that comes with knowing the cyclical nature of modern history, but there's also a nihilism and hopelessness that comes with it, knowing that it's impossible to truly "fix" any problem. The fix will create new problems, to be fixed by a later generation, which will in the process recreate the original problems. I guess that's the thing I'm struggling with. There's something really beautiful in it, but it's also so hopeless.

You are more tuned into today's shallow media than I am, and I doubt that what's on it means very much. But who knows. That bagel seems a metaphor for what we are experiencing these days. Destruction upon destruction: war crimes, pandemics, climate crisis, sexual abuse, gun violence, hate and prejudice, conspiracy theory, attacks on democracy, rising prices and poverty/inequality, tyrants rising everywhere; when will it end? Our 4T is nowhere near over and getting worse, and the way we (and especially younger people) hide our heads in the sand and support Republicans, it may never end.