09-12-2024, 03:26 AM
(09-11-2024, 05:32 PM)Maxmars Wrote: It's a hard lesson. (At least for me.)
The disconnect between generations seems like something that would be smoothed out by intergenerational social interaction... but it's squelched... I wonder if that effect is exacerbated by the "social media" mindset? (Not to mention the dishonor and dishonesty of industrial media productions... said to be "fair and true," but in the final analysis, they're not really.)
Echoes of the generational change in societal values in the 1960s: The younger people born after WW2 had no memories of that conflict and didn't share their parent's generation's values. The vast gap between those people contributed to turbulent times and the scars left by the Vietnam War.
Interestingly, unlike Vietnam, people's stance on post 9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq didn't divide family and friends to anywhere near the same extent. Note that it is a brief, broader historical and social commentary and doesn't take away from Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans' experiences.
