Are you sensing a curiously strong resonance effect with the world, as in “these are the times I was born to live through”? Like an extra-strong sense of being in tune with the times?
If so, follow-up question: how old are you?
I believe that ppl who experienced the 1960s and early 1970s are less likely to be freaking out in our current difficulties, which do not compare to the shock of the assassinations, the agony of Vietnam, or the ongoing horror of the Cold War.
Disagree. I lived through 2 PM assassinations (Indira and Rajiv Gandhi) and multiple terrorist movements in India in 80s. Those kinds of stress stay localized to hotspots. This touches everybody. 100%. It’s not just flaming streets on TV. Participatory stress >> spectator stress.
That's worth investigating (and we may be talking past each other).
My observation was fr the US, and I would argue that the stress was "participatory" for those who expected to serve in Vietnam or who feared the riots or crime wave of the 1960s, (murder rate up 50% in 5 yrs).
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