been thinking about what it means to be stuck in the past, and how being stuck in different pasts makes the world feel different age feels much more important to me for understanding people than it used to, because it determines what era of history you came of age in
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the real hogwarts houses are boomer, gen x, millennial, and zoomer
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also trying to synchronize ancestral trauma to history. e.g. if you're 30ish millennial like me, your parents are 50-60ish gen x, came of age in '70s-'80s. your grandparents are 70-90ish boomers / silent gen, came of age '40s-'60s, irreparably marked by WWII
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QC @QiaochuYuanExample: Hayao Miyazaki was born in 1941, and survived a WWII bombing when he was 4, which deeply affected him. Once you start looking for this in his movies you see it everywhere (spoilers) - e.g. the superweapons in Nausicaa and Castle in the Sky. pic.twitter.com/RrVxD3jZdxShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
been reading therapy case studies and boy have people been fucked up by bad parenting, and boy is a whole bunch of that bad parenting due to wartime PTSD sure seems like WWI, WWII, and vietnam emotionally crippled 2-3 generations of parents in the US, which would explain a lot
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for my chinese ancestors it was the great chinese famine and the cultural revolution, which presumably had a very different effect i wish i understood better boy the 20th century sure was horrifying huh
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in conclusion i stayed up until 3am last night to finish reading Unlocking the Emotional Brain, i swear to god they're not paying me to write these tweets i just love this book so much
just look at this truth bomb, i've never heard anxious attachment described like thispic.twitter.com/lvPUTI2mWM
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