Why? Opposition to war in general? As wars go, the Gulf War was pretty close to ideal. One country invades another, invaded country requests help, US expels invader, US goes home. I wish every other US war was as clean.
While there was no land invasion of Iraq, I'm not sure "goes home" is completely accurate:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_no-fly_zones_conflict
US bases in Saudi Arabia was one of the 'grievances' of al Qaeda:
> 3. One of the principal goals of al Qaeda was to drive the United States armed forces out of Saudi Arabia (and elsewhere on the Saudi Arabian peninsula) and Somalia by violence. Members of al Qaeda issued fatwahs (rulings on Islamic law) indicating that such attacks were both proper and necessary.
* https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/network/alqae...
Good times breed weak people
Weak people bring bad times
Bad times breed strong people
So it goes
The multi-generational mindset shifts of work vs leisure come in waves.
Sometimes you get all three in quick succession like the early 20th century.
The capitalist class.
> Do they meet over brunch to plan it?
Sometimes. Sometimes dinner. Sometimes drinks. Sometimes, at meetings of the global institutions they and their paid agents run.
Not, like, in one unified, organized group, just a disproportionately powerful class, with many members aggressively pursuing their own self-interest, and coordinating on that where they recognize the opportunity.
The same way they overthrew the feudal order and established the capitalist order in the first place. (And also the same way that the larger but less disproportionately powerful classes beneath them have weakened the capitalist system in favor of modern mixed economy as the dominant system of the last century. Which has a lot of the first group irritated.)
My kids are being raised on a diet of learn to compute and be kind, not a conqueror.
Rather than stories of Davids and Goliath, or it has to work this way because it did work this way.
Mirror neurons can start blinking on and off to less specific story, constrained to build and tend kingdom or flock.
The toughness humanity has rewarded belongs to conquerors of others. The toughness we need is conquering self.
I don’t owe billionaires validation, or politicians allegiance. They can tough out having their figurative identity suffocated.
To the flames…
This is a silly way to look at things I think. Without a solid definition of time, its just the tautology of the good times and bad times being the only states and then blaming the people of those times.
1. Hard times (e.g. the Depression and WWII) bred the strong people of the Greatest Generation.
2. These strong people brought the prosperity that let to the good times of the Baby Boomer generation.
Leave it up to you to determine what kind of times Baby Boomers have brought.
I understand the context of the quote and I'm pointing out it immediately breaks down.
I don't think you understand the context of the quote at all, this is also the exact opposite of what the quote implies.
And to say those were the hard times conversely states that prior to that were the so-called 'good times.' This might be generalized as the roaring 20s in the US (and similarly for Weimar Germany.) However, this generalization fails in two regards: 1) contrary to popular belief, the roaring 20s weren't roaring for most people in the US (or Germany). 2nd) the members of both eras were primarily composed of the same individuals; there is no distinct line of generations divided by 'good times/bad times.'
Lastly it implies that by definition all 'good times' are predicated upon holocaust.
EDIT: And that strength can only be continually cultivated through perpetual war.
weak people with WMDs bring end times!
On the other side, strong people brought destruction, oppression, international shame, broken nations, and sometimes the disappearance of entire cultures.
And Y-Combinator, together with hacker news. Thank Gen X for that.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/28/millennials...
Should the entire system change on a dime because of someone's writing? No.
Should the writing be rejected because they complained? No.
Survival bias is so strong, there are more billionaires than ever and the system is strongly favoring them because they lobby it to be so.
Complaining is the first step in problem resolution, to yourself or to your peers or on a blog post.