@cassidyandfranks - I don't like to give out my real age, but I do recognize signs.

I had to move it back here as the level you replied to is at the maximum nesting level.

We are making generalizations. There will be exceptions to every generation as we are all individuals. This being oblivious to what was done is not unique to any one generation, it can happen to any. Yet that doesn't mean everyone in a generation is that way.

My current method of fighting is just to write about and talk about critical thinking. I don't tell people what they should believe (or I try not to) but I do encourage them to do their own thinking, and try to help them start to see and avoid common logical fallacies that seem to rule across many generations at the moment.

The big problems, I think the most likely way we will ever solve them is if we all have our own minds, understand how to speak with others who also use critical thinking, and tread our own paths rather than trying to indicate our path is the one everyone should follow.

Yet, I do know and have witnessed how the world can be totally alien when changes occur an a person is born after those changes. You can imagine the world before those changes if they are described and you read them, but they are not as internal.

A good example today is all of the people blindly and gleefully shouting to end free speech. Unless, you say what they want to hear. The obsession with triggering words, and safe spaces.

This is NOT you necessarily, but there a lot of people that this describes, and I believe that is an example of the group of people @thecryptofiend and I am referring to as being born into 1984 and not being able to see it.