• Nouvellalia@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Your summation is spot-on.

    They heard stories of the struggle older generations had, and witnessed the resulting trauma and strength. Having never been through it themselves they developed the worship of struggle and elevation of suffering, as an affectation.

    Then they foisted the self-loathing for themselves having never experienced it, on subsequent generations, claiming the subsequent generations were the first ones who never experienced it. And have tried to force suffering on us ever since, in an attempt to make us like their parents.

    Truly the John Wayne generation, larping like the hard world gave them moral character, while sleeping in a soft Hollywood bed, coasting on the work left by real people, without even the grit of the ones who took it from the real people.