I think most-a the heroes of WWII just experienced too much horror to wanna relate it to their kids. The whole time I knew my Dad (44 years), the only time he referred to it was one sentence in a postcard when he was taking trip to Europe: "Last time I was here they were shooting at us." At the time, I was too stupid to understand the significance.
The really bad influence came when the Boomers were parents. Helicopter (and I guess Snowplow) parenting shielded their kids even more. The Boomers were lucky. THey were one-a the last generations to experience unsupervised play. The day-to-day battles amongst peers set the groundwork for future day-to-day "battles."
It doesn't hafta be any earth-shaking adversity to develop resilience, it turns out. Sports being one-a *the* best Ways to learn how You're supposed to go about winning and, more important, losing. The movement up and down amongst Your social peers.
Kids who are protected from every possibility of experiencing the least little bit of pain? What You'd expect. What we got now, as these kids have (reputedly) grown up. Not entirely tangentially, the "self-esteem" movement was (and, amazingly, still *is*) one-a the stupidest inventions ever created outta the mindlessness of supposedly intelligent people. Scientists laid out in the 90s that it did more harm than good. And, yet, still goes on to this day.. And this "it" goes on and on.
As someone born in late 1976, Generation X, I would say we were the last generation with the unsupervised play, as well as a true connection to older generations. Rotary phones, dirt roads, etc.
Techno-economic disruption (networks, global neoliberalism) is the deeper cause of the emergence of postmodern relativism and the various insanities of the ILLIBERAL, totalitarian "cultural-left".
1. after WW2, the traditional economy of family farms and manufacturing was displaced by the "information economy", office jobs, which required college education (the GI Bill massively expanded higher education). The culture shifted toward postmodern relativism because of the suburban-consumer lifestyle and its physical and cultural infrastructure required less social cohesion, and so encourages alienation.
2. by the 60s/70s, electronic information technologies further accelerated those cultural changes, and the erosion and corruption of the legacy "sense-making" system: hierarchies of curated expertise.
the internet was the ultimately disruptive force because information could freely flow around legacy, curated, expert knowledge hierarchies, and the resulting RELATIVISM (lack of boundaries) and the InfoGlut and "crisis of meaning" could be exploited.
What is now required is a sense-making system that is anti-fragile to disruption under postmodern social conditions. The global-neoliberal economy will make anti-fragility difficult.
I think most-a the heroes of WWII just experienced too much horror to wanna relate it to their kids. The whole time I knew my Dad (44 years), the only time he referred to it was one sentence in a postcard when he was taking trip to Europe: "Last time I was here they were shooting at us." At the time, I was too stupid to understand the significance.
The really bad influence came when the Boomers were parents. Helicopter (and I guess Snowplow) parenting shielded their kids even more. The Boomers were lucky. THey were one-a the last generations to experience unsupervised play. The day-to-day battles amongst peers set the groundwork for future day-to-day "battles."
It doesn't hafta be any earth-shaking adversity to develop resilience, it turns out. Sports being one-a *the* best Ways to learn how You're supposed to go about winning and, more important, losing. The movement up and down amongst Your social peers.
Kids who are protected from every possibility of experiencing the least little bit of pain? What You'd expect. What we got now, as these kids have (reputedly) grown up. Not entirely tangentially, the "self-esteem" movement was (and, amazingly, still *is*) one-a the stupidest inventions ever created outta the mindlessness of supposedly intelligent people. Scientists laid out in the 90s that it did more harm than good. And, yet, still goes on to this day.. And this "it" goes on and on.
IMO, 'course.
As someone born in late 1976, Generation X, I would say we were the last generation with the unsupervised play, as well as a true connection to older generations. Rotary phones, dirt roads, etc.
TY for Your reply. That was my understanding. Feel sorry for those after You.
Reread the "Virtuals vs Physicals" articles.
Techno-economic disruption (networks, global neoliberalism) is the deeper cause of the emergence of postmodern relativism and the various insanities of the ILLIBERAL, totalitarian "cultural-left".
1. after WW2, the traditional economy of family farms and manufacturing was displaced by the "information economy", office jobs, which required college education (the GI Bill massively expanded higher education). The culture shifted toward postmodern relativism because of the suburban-consumer lifestyle and its physical and cultural infrastructure required less social cohesion, and so encourages alienation.
2. by the 60s/70s, electronic information technologies further accelerated those cultural changes, and the erosion and corruption of the legacy "sense-making" system: hierarchies of curated expertise.
the internet was the ultimately disruptive force because information could freely flow around legacy, curated, expert knowledge hierarchies, and the resulting RELATIVISM (lack of boundaries) and the InfoGlut and "crisis of meaning" could be exploited.
What is now required is a sense-making system that is anti-fragile to disruption under postmodern social conditions. The global-neoliberal economy will make anti-fragility difficult.