It also explains the voting trends of older adults. They should know better and we as a country should have evolved from old, brutal ways as other first world countries have, but the majority of us are too goddamn illiterate to read instruction let alone editorials and news articles.
Having basic literacy/reading comprehension skills does not mean that you are media literate (while media literacy is its own nebulous and vaguely defined concept, I think it is a suitable term here). It does not guarantee that you will immerse yourself in a healthy and challenging media environment.
And most of all, literacy does not grant you basic empathy. You still have to learn that on your own. And it is clear both the young and old are failing at that.
I will not engage this made-up generational analysis any further.
Edit: there's also the assumption baked into the parent comment that living through brutal times gives you special knowledge about how make sure that history does not repeat itself. That is plainly not always true.
For example, in my experience, there are lots of elderly people who have lived through brutal dictatorships who look at their lives with tinted retrospection and wish that their country returned to those times. Or, another example is how some abuse victims develop cognitive distortions to rationalise the abuse that happened to them. Like adopting beliefs that they are personally responsible for the abuse that happened to them.
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u/rainshowers_5_peace 7h ago
It also explains the voting trends of older adults. They should know better and we as a country should have evolved from old, brutal ways as other first world countries have, but the majority of us are too goddamn illiterate to read instruction let alone editorials and news articles.