RE: We Are The Most Comfortable Generation, Are We The Most Peaceful?
You really hit a nerve here sauravrungta! This is a major demur of our advanced society.
I often times hear the elderly say that life was better in the old days. I wonder if we will be saying the same thing..
It seems like pace and progress like profit, development and expansion are the most sacred values of modern day society. It is as though progress is being worshiped like a new age god by a lot of companies and career minded people.
I wonder what the costs have been? What did we have in the old days which we no longer possess.
Maybe:
Time?
Peace of mind?
Close family ties?
Ties to a community?
Basically it is as though we have neglected a lot of those things we valued the most before everything was judged by a progress standard.
At the same time the importance of the elderly is decreasing in our modern society. Back in the days old people were regarded as wise. Today in our fast paced society their opinions are rarely wanted.
Maybe we should in fact listen more to the wise of our world, those who lived in a time a little less stressful than today
Take care
ronni
I think the ties to a community are a big one. At least in the millennial generation, people are so caught up on social media and video games that they never get to know those in their community.
School friends and families? Yes. But other than that...not much.
It's unfortunate. I remember coming home when the street lights turned on around dinner time.
I hardly ever see kids out and about playing in my neighborhood anymore. I do, however, see them all on their phones nearly all the time.
Agreed 100% with what you have to say. We should listen more to the elderly because they have seen the old world and the new and we can definitely learn A LOT from them if we only 'listened'. Looks like nobody wants to do that today.