23-Mar-16 World View -- Generational view of Tuesday's terror attack in Brussels, Belgium / Gone With The Wind

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23-Mar-16 World View -- Generational view of Tuesday's terror attack in Brussels, Belgium / Gone With The Wind

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23-Mar-16 World View -- Generational view of Tuesday's terror attack in Brussels, Belgium


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Re: 23-Mar-16 World View -- Generational view of Tuesday's terror attack in Brussels, Belgium / Gone With The Wind

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The one flaw of the GI and Silent generations is that they failed to pass on their wisdom to their children. I agree that Baby Boomers and Gen X-ers do not have the wisdom of their parent's generations.

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Re: 23-Mar-16 World View -- Generational view of Tuesday's terror attack in Brussels, Belgium / Gone With The Wind

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josa0512 wrote: > The one flaw of the GI and Silent generations is that they failed
> to pass on their wisdom to their children. I agree that Baby
> Boomers and Gen X-ers do not have the wisdom of their parent's
> generations.
The psychology of the situation is that both sides in a crisis war
commit atrocities that they want to forget, and so they have no desire
to talk about what happened, except in the broadest terms. If you're
a soldier whose comrade was beheaded by the enemy, you don't want to
admit that you got even by raping the wife of an enemy soldier. So
all the horrors of the war get buried with the survivors of the war,
and the post-war generations really have little idea of what actually
happened.

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Re: 23-Mar-16 World View -- Generational view of Tuesday's terror attack in Brussels, Belgium / Gone With The Wind

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Gone with the wind --

The problem with generations is the "young" don't think the "old" understand,and that they ( the old ) can be dismissed -- things change as they say.

But, if you study history , yes, technology changes, but it appears that the relationships between "people" stay petty much the same.

hmmm

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Re: 23-Mar-16 World View -- Generational view of Tuesday's terror attack in Brussels, Belgium / Gone With The Wind

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"The psychology of the situation is that both sides in a crisis war
commit atrocities that they want to forget, and so they have no desire
to talk about what happened, except in the broadest terms. If you're
a soldier whose comrade was beheaded by the enemy, you don't want to
admit that you got even by raping the wife of an enemy soldier. So
all the horrors of the war get buried with the survivors of the war,
and the post-war generations really have little idea of what actually
happened."

Good point, Mr. Xenakis. And even if one generation did pass all of its wisdom on to the next generation, sooner or later, a latter generation would break the chain and the ebb and flow of generational crisis, recovery, awakening, and unraveling would begin anew.

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Re: 23-Mar-16 World View -- Generational view of Tuesday's terror attack in Brussels, Belgium / Gone With The Wind

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People learn more from experience than from advice.

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Re: 23-Mar-16 World View -- Generational view of Tuesday's terror attack in Brussels, Belgium / Gone With The Wind

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The psychology of the situation is that both sides in a crisis war
commit atrocities that they want to forget, and so they have no desire
to talk about what happened, except in the broadest terms. If you're
a soldier whose comrade was beheaded by the enemy, you don't want to
admit that you got even by raping the wife of an enemy soldier. So
all the horrors of the war get buried with the survivors of the war,
and the post-war generations really have little idea of what actually
happened.
I remember reading an article that talked about that very topic. It mentioned that all politics aside, we were far more brutal in WWII than we ever were in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan. He stated that the Great Generation committed atrocities that made current ones look minuscule in comparison.

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