1 Jun 2022 12:33 pm
GHETTOBLASTER » 31 May 2022, 10:55 pm » wrote: ↑ Do you really think you are more desensitized than the WWII Generation...?
Infant mortality, women dying in child birth, people dying of easily treated infections, no treatment for most diseases we consider controllable now.
Life expectancy in the 60 year range.
I'd say there are more people today than ever before who have never killed and butchered a chicken, or a deer, or even just a fish.
More people than ever before who have never been in a fist fight or even spent an entire day working or playing outdoors.
The main exposure to "death" this generation has had is from playing Black Ops Commando Nintendo and watching Taratino movies.
I guess there is just something in human nature that draws us to the morbid. Public executions used to draw large crowds too. Still, the question of meaning and purpose also comes into play when you analyze what we hold dear in this current epoch of American society.
Nothing is easier than defending the status quo.