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Originally Posted by tabs
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So you are trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together to make some sense of it all. How do the pieces fir together against your own perceptions...find any anomaly's, It is not the data it is your perception that needs to be adjusted. You construct you deconstruct X 40 odd years....and by the gods you get to walk in Elysian Fields.
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I'm sorry. I haven't stepped far enough beyond the doors of perception, even after 4 years of studying philosophy, to know what you are saying. :D
Over the past 40 years. Societies change. Politics change. Bad things happen. Good things happen. Bad people are elected. Bad people are re-elected. Good people are elected. We went over this. Even if western civilization collapses, it will suck for us, but eventually, things will get better, if history repeats itself, as you always remind us.
I've got a question for the brain trust. I see this topic come up a lot here. I come from a non-military family.
Why is it that some people always bring up how the new generation of youth and young adult, don't know suffering, don't know fear, have never fought in a war, weren't shipped off to vietnam when they were 18 etc etc etc. As if it is a bad thing. As if they can never be responsibility or develop character, without these things. You catch my drift.
I have everything to thank to the people who gave me my freedom. The fact that I can sleep in on Sunday. Play videogames when I choose. Everything I am privy to is because a number of decades ago, millions of people fought and died for my freedom. They fought so that I can sleep in on Sunday. So that I don't have to go through what they went through. It was their gift to future generations.
Why is it that it is often brought up in a negative tone? As in, those millennials and younger are spoiled. They have never had to go through these things. They don't have the character. They don't have the responsibility. They didn't grow up as fast and as hard as we did. They have no idea what it is like etc etc.
Some people are grateful. Some people are not. But isn't it hypocritical to fight for something, hoping nobody would have to fight for it again and endure, and then criticize those who have not? Criticize their lack of character and responsibility? I see it a lot on this board. Just confusing.