Re:Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of...
by nus07 on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @11:13AM
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Fantastic answer. In 30 years time we have no idea how the youth then will view our race for urban living, yoga, tech hustles and high inequality, juice and vegan diets, electric cars, open concept houses, social media, tech surveillance and screen addiction and various other things which are less cutesy and more sinister.
One thing that already gets me thinking of future generations looking down on us will be this quest for travel and high living especially for social media glamor and the new keeping up with Jones'. This increases more flights, polluting untouched places and how bad it is for the climate.
Granted I still think we have a more enlightened perspective on some issues as a generation just due to better education overall, but at best we might manage a marginal increase in overall quality of life for people.
Plus the basket of crises we've faced starting with the Great Financial Crisis has allowed many to blame external factors for their situation and not take personal responsibility, even when they clearly should. I've met plenty of unwise/stupid millennials who could do more to better their situation, but are happy to just sit still and bitch about everything but their self-destructive habits.
It's like how the Boomers got associated with Woodstock/the hippies/counter-culture, but in reality most Boomers didn't rebel all that much. Boomers elected Reagan, and he ran in part as an anti-counter-culture figure.