Baby boomers have had every thing they ever wanted. Now they are getting old and facing their mortality. Panicked and angry that the universe is no longer catering to every whim.
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I don't know what other generations have been like, but I can't imagine a group so hellbent on preserving for themselves what they were given by past generations while actively trying to deny it to future generations. I always thought the idea was for your kids to have it better.
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It seems more "in order for my kids to do better, other kids have to be brought down". Hard to explain in one tweet, sorry.
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If what we're seeing is, "wanting better for your kids," it is the weirdest way of doing it I can imagine.
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this is a weird take. you don’t build the entirety of the us nuclear arsenal without hysteria on a civilizational scale.
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I remember being 11 and waking up in terror in the middle of the night because of all the nuclear hysteria.
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But that hysteria was justified.
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No, it really wasn't. Like all hysteria, it fed on itself. Later, we found the Russians had nowhere near the arsenal we thought they did.
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Technology. When you were born all you had was a newspaper and the evening news read by a calm centrist. Today, people are worked up by bloggers posing as journalists whose paycheck depends on outrage and can reach people in their pockets 24/7
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Social media + blogs is an explosive combination. Then again printing press & alphabetisation gave us communism.
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Alphabetisation?
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Press+alphabetisation-> encyclopedia-> positivism-> communism

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Is this a widely held theory? Never heard it before. Interesting
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No it's hyperbole
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Overly ambitious leaps, maybe. I’ve got theories that are a billion times more hyperbolic.
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Statistically the world is much safer and yet we’re all scared to death.
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I'd modify that with, we're not scared enough of the things that are actually a threat.
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That’s a good edit.
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