The New Nurture Is Already Developing

[JasonBlack]

(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.

I was just thinking about this same topic. A big reason why generational theory is such a powerful cycle is because people over-correct for the wounds of their own childhood, rather than base it what their own child is going through. In this case, the parents saying they're sorry....aren't actually the ones who need to apologize. It's the ones who believe they've done nothing wrong who typically need to own up to their mistakes. Apologizing to your child for how YOU were treated generally just leads to that child developing an entitled attitude. "they're apologizing? it's probably because they've wronged me by somehow not giving me what I want, so now I will demand it louder and more indignantly".