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its the end of the rule as we know it (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 8 months ago by BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 38 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Most generations don't need to deal with an impending threat to the whole planet. Nuclear apocalypse, sure, but at least there was no pretending that it wasn't a problem.

This is ignoring all of the other ways in which we're fucked.

[-] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 months ago

Another thing that is worse is how we havent had anything recently to inspire hope. The Higgs Boson would have been the Millenial/Gen Z equivalent of the moon landing if the public hadn't been so distrusting of physics because of string theory evangelists.

[-] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

For me, the first world (i.e. the part of the world allied with the US) had a common enemy to get behind and that allowed people to live in peace for 1.5 generations or so. When the USSR collapsed, that bogeyman suddenly disappeared and the infighting started nearly instantly.