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I'm starting to realize that after good times, bad times almost inevitably has to come. Good times are created by people who lived through bad times wanting to improve. But now most people were born into good times, not remembering the bad.

People today don't remember children dying from preventable diseases before the vaccination, so they don't fear the diseases.

Women don't remember not having reproductive rights, so they don't fear not having them.

(Most) people didn't lose their relatives in bloody wars, so they don't fear escalation, brinkmanship.






“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” (from a postapocalyptic novel by the author G. Michael Hopf)

… wow, interesting find, an entire, shockingly prolific, oeuvre seemingly in its entirety dedicated to and authored for weak, fearful men that really want to believe they were once strong.


Strongly agree. Complacency.

"Why do we need allies?"

Reading the younger peoples comments on the JoeRogan sub-reddit is quite validating and inline with your reasoning in my opinion.

I think most young people were lied to but they believe it because as you said, they don't know any better.




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