There was about 70 years between people leaving small farms en masse and the divorce epidemic, more than that for the other two. I'd say we're looking for different causes.
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Generational breakdown of attachments from healthy to absolutely broken takes time. Multiple layers of societal framework have to break down alongside the familial alienation. 2-3 generations down would begin to manifest serious problems. Right about 70 years.
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That’s precisely what I’m talking about, yes. Attachment problems from separated families are shown to vastly increase the development of mental disorders.
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It’s a little deeper than ancestors just picking up and leaving farms. It usually wasn’t a choice. The Dust Bowl and Great Depression led many families to lose everything. They headed to cities because they heard there were jobs there and they were desperate.
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They worked isolated jobs in huge factories for near-slave wages. They worked themselves to death to provide for their families and no longer had time, energy, or softness of spirit to show affection and warmth with their kids. Kids either realized why, or didn’t and we’re hurt.
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Kids who got it tried to do the same. Show love with work and providing. No understanding of warmth or affection but real love in work and sacrificial misery. Kids who didn’t get it turned bitter. Became all about “Me me me!” Rebellious 50s teens. Baby boomer sex revolution.
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Kids who got it married kids who didn’t. Can’t function in marriage if you’re broken and don’t know how to love or be loved. Shattered homes, new generation of kids being told “Love just doesn’t work out.” Unable to connect to their families and don’t believe love is real. Gen X.
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New wave of kids. Millennials. Gen X and Mills has little faith in love or marriage. Some stayed okay if they had solid traditional organizations (mostly devout church membership and real faith, almost only organization left). Churches started to crumble as baby boomers took over
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Now here we are. Suicide epidemics. Meaningless lives. Marriage is broken. State has replaced husbands and fathers. Dust Bowl and Great Depression took families off their land and shoved them into cities. Attachments shattered, then traditional society withered.
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This whole pattern is why @HunterDrewTFA says “Presence > Presents.” For 3 generations all they had was Presents. First in the form of slaving for scraps of food and shoes and a rundown apartment. Now big screens and tablets and coffee enemas. Presence > Presents is older wisdom.
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Worse is the system teaching us this is all we’ve ever had and that we never had it so good. That rural life in communal multi-generational homes is embarrassing. That we should slave away at pointless jobs and pay strangers to raise and rape our kids in crowded daycares.
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This is it: we have no history. We are rootless and cut off from our past. This (finding the past) was my task when I began researching my own lineage 4-5 years ago. What I found was amazing and relevant in ways I didn’t expect. Good thread Brometheus...
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