Worst generation to be a kid

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[–]LtGreenCo 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

This isn't really the worst time to be a kid since life has gotten exponentially better for everyone from the 20th century onward.

But I will say this is probably the most fucked up and psychologically abusive time to be a kid.

I'm so glad my formative years were 80s and 90s, looking back that seems to have been peak time to be a kid, at least in westernized countries.

[–]SMCAB 13 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

But I will say this is probably the most fucked up and psychologically abusive time to be a kid.

Which kind of makes it the worst generation no?

I'd gladly give up my Playstation for full Liberty, and my son would too, at 16 years old.

[–]LtGreenCo 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Worst generation maybe in terms of psychological health. Definitely not in terms of physical health. We don't have kids working in mines and getting black lung anymore, for example. No kids doing chimney sweeping and shit like that. At least in the west; not sure about 3rd world countries.

[–]SMCAB 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

No doubt, but using this as an example, I could have pushed my child into selling cars or something else for a career, good and bad jobs always exist.

My kids are growing up in an environment where the power structure is suppressing liberty and freedom and taking control to a physical level. I still contend I'd give up better jobs, better health, and better tech for full liberty. I don't want someone wiping my ass anyway, I'll eat cyanide before that happens.

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They are pretty bad in terms of physical health too. Mental and physical health are connected. The main driver of childhood obesity is disrupted sleep.

[–]CreditKnifeMan 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'd gladly give up my Playstation for full Liberty

Would even be willing to listen to a 2.5 hour long interview to reclaim your full Liberty?

It can be found here. IF you really want it.

Deanna Spingola - Roger Sayles - How and why claim American National status - 02-06-21 (2:34:48).

Put the Sovereign citizen bullshit out of your mind. This is not that.

This is a fact.

I'm speaking from personal experience.

It's the real deal.

[–]SMCAB 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No time now, I'll check it out later, thanks.

[–]FourteenDigitz 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Life has most definitely not gotten continuously exponentially better. I’d say that exponent peaked somewhere between the 70s and 9/11 and ever since we’re now on the opposite end of a parabolic decline.

[–]LtGreenCo 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

When you compare kids now to kids in the 80s, sure, it's definitely worse. Kids have less freedom and their quality of education has declined sharply. And of course, they are having to contend with the woke parents and tranny groomers now and many are falling victim to it.

But when you look at the big picture -- when you look at life as a kid throughout history up through the 1800s, and compare it to this and last century, the difference is night and day. Kids today by comparison have more protections than they ever had. And they have much less responsibility than they ever had. Not to mention the plethora of gadgets and toys and media to both entertain and aid in their development. The further back in time you go, the more life was dogshit for kids and adults.

[–]FourteenDigitz 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

And that’s why I’m saying the exponent peaked at some point in the last 50 years and we’re just now tipping into an exponential decline — hence the parabola.

There’s an even bigger picture that you’re missing, and that’s that kids of the 80s still had a bright future to look towards; something to aspire to. Kids of today are becoming more and more aware that their futures were bought and sold on the free market to create that exponential growth for a good century, and we are now reaching the limits of that growth. Even climate change notwithstanding, peak oil is one of the greatest hurdles to business as usual, especially when many countries are doing everything they can not to fund renewables, and it’s highly likely that peak oil is partially responsible for this year’s skyrocketing gas prices — the war in Ukraine and the sanctions against Russia being a convenient cover — and the only reason those prices stopped going up was to prevent total anarchy like what’s recently happened in Lebanon and Sri Lanka.

[–]LtGreenCo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think we're in an exponential decline overall. If we go out 50, 100 or 200 years I think cooler heads will eventually prevail and we'll be back on our upward trajectory. Sadly I won't be around to see it, so for the rest of my time on Earth it's probably going to be all downhill. But I got to live the 80s and 90s as a youth, so I can't complain too much.

[–]YJaewedwqewq 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'd rather die of some obscure Mega AIDS disease in Feudal Europe than ever see a drag queen or see innocent kids, my classmates for instance, brainwashed into trannies and homos.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

As a kid from the 80s I climbed onto multiple roofs and played with matches and was allowed to drive my dad's truck around the back yard. I did crash his junk truck into a tree but it taught me about how the front end swings while backing up.

I got yelled at for climbing onto roofs but I was great at hide and seek.

As a kid I could start campfires better than the adults. My dad would just throw gasoline on the wood but I started it with just the match.

I also knew the function of a manual transmission car before my teens even though i didn't know how to drive. My dad once left my brother and myself in the pickup truck while he went into a store and he accidentally left the truck in neutral. He left the truck and then it started to roll backwards towards the street as he was already in the store. I climbed over to the driver seat and knew which was the brake and pressed it. He saw this from the store and came back out to put the parking brake on.

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At no point during any of my childhood did I think I could do any of these things specifically because I was a boy nor did i have any concept that a girl couldn't do any of these things.

[–]HiddenFox 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

At 13 I would drive my old mans boat. 160hp. 24' aluminum center console. That boat would do 60mhp flat open! He taught me to drive it so he could have a turn at water skiing. Never had a problem. Not even a close call He was big on safety though and taught me well the level of responsibility I was entrusted with. I knew the river better then most. People would come up from the city and give me the weirdest looks. I think they were blown away to see a kid handling a boat like a champ. I could dock that boat like it was no one business.

I also jumped off a 2 story house roof into a huge pile of leaves during a game of tag. It hurt pretty bad but I lived! I didn't break anything! Never did that again!

My worst injury came from playing power rangers with the guys. I did a round house kick, lost my balance and fell backwards onto a concrete garbage can. (It was square shaped with sharp corners) Hit the back of my head pretty hard. Lots of blood and I was truly out of it. My friends were hauling me home and I was trying to go into someone else's house. I really though it was mine. That one was a trip to the hospital.

I would see my parents for a bit in the morning and wouldn't come home until 5:00pm sharp for dinner and there was hell to pay if I was late! I also had daily choirs to do before I went out (Like garbage and light tidying) and every Saturday we had weekly choirs (mostly cleaning) before I could leave the house.

I had such little supervision from 10 years old on. I truly think it made me who I am today!

God I miss the 80s!

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    [–]Q-Continuum-kin 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    I couldn't see over the steering wheel the time I stopped the truck from rolling out the parking lot. I just was taught already what the pedals were for.

    Friends and I also used to whip bottle rockets at each other.

    Honestly some of this stuff was pretty dangerous and parents can be rightfully worried but there is a problem where you can't move the line too far towards safety. In terms of government, you start to lose rights and not know how to do anything. In terms of growing up you just become helpless because you lived in a bubble.

    [–]cant_even 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Distinguishing characteristics of "Mom":

    1. No husband
    2. A Vegan Cat

    [–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Kids like this are spending all their time online anyway so they won't ask to do stuff like jump off the roof or any other kind of normal kid mischief.

    They're sitting in discord chatrooms talking with who knows who. Maybe they're just playing games online with their friends, maybe they're getting sucked into weird rabbit holes, maybe they're getting groomed by actual pedophiles. Unless you are monitoring the kid you don't know.

    Parents are too permissive about a lot of things they really shouldn't be. And others are too strict about things they're better off being permissive with. You wouldn't let your kid go wander downtown by themselves cause of the weirdos that are out, but they'll be allowed to wander online where you can't see them. Ultimately you've got to let your kid have a safe place to play and get into minor mischief with minimal parental interference otherwise they'll end up going online behind your back and you'll have no influence whatsoever.

    It's the irony of this age, parents are terrified of letting their kids go outside unsupervised because of predators, yet they have no issue letting them play online unsupervised where things are arguably even more dangerous in some ways.

    [–]saltyhellsaur 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I cut it close dodging the rise of prog parenting. Grew up in the 2000s. By the time the current year wokescolds began to manifest, I was developed enough to see them for the contradictory buffoons they are.

    [–]sproketboy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I did most of those things. Minus the last one.