Don’t teach kids to fear the world

Re:Don’t teach kids to fear the world by interroboink on Thursday September 01, 2022 @04:51PM (#32683013)

This quote comes to mind:

  Hard times create strong people
  Strong people create good times
  Good times create weak people
  Weak people create hard times

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Re:Don’t teach kids to fear the world by brazzy on Thursday September 01, 2022 @04:55PM (#32683061)

...which is a recent internet meme typically associated with counterfactual pseudo-history.

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Re:Don’t teach kids to fear the world by interroboink on Thursday September 01, 2022 @05:51PM (#32683784)

Oh? I had never heard of that association. I just liked the quote (:

Could you share a link or something on that topic? I'm curious.

Certainly, the concept long-predates the internet. A bit like the yin/yang symbol, where there's a little "dot" of one color inside the other, symbolizing a similar cyclical concept of one arising from the other.

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Re:Don’t teach kids to fear the world by brazzy on Friday September 02, 2022 @01:21PM (#32693331)

Here's a super detailed deconstruction by a historian: https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...

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Re:Don’t teach kids to fear the world by danbolt on Thursday September 01, 2022 @06:17PM (#32684092)

I can’t share any links, but I’d posit that “things getting better, then getting worse, then getting better” can seem subjective and self-fulfilling.

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Re:Don’t teach kids to fear the world by alanwreath on Friday September 02, 2022 @12:53AM (#32686741)

Totally tangential but you’ve described a Mormon concept https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/bc/content/shared/conten...

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Re:Don’t teach kids to fear the world by akomtu on Thursday September 01, 2022 @10:52PM (#32686045)

people->men in the original quote

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Re:Don’t teach kids to fear the world by interroboink on Thursday September 01, 2022 @11:38PM (#32686304)

Ah, I typed it from (faulty) memory.

Though I suppose I like it this way — kinda like the updated Star Trek "To boldly go..." for TNG (:

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