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@MeBigbrain @chainsaw_appreciator @justnormalkorean Maybe in the public eye but I can say that there were/are many who DO want better for us than they had. They just don't put it into words. There's an ocean of things left unsaid, because they think we intuit things that are so "obvious I didn't know I had to tell it to you". A heart-to-heart with them would surprise you. It has me.

In my family and extended community, I see it a lot. I've seen more than a handful of old folks living like paupers, protecting their inheritance for the family because they fear what's to come when they're gone.

I've seen men in their early 70's working a full stack of odd jobs because they pay for their adult daughter's expensive medical care, or want to send their grandkids to college, thinking it's the only way to survive. They're working their life away because they're the only one with employment good enough to support the clan.

I've seen fat prepper guys cataloging arsenals that would make an embassy of marines blush, planning to issue them throughout their 20+ grandchildren so they don't go into the future unarmed.

I like shitting on boomers too but in the last few years I've really gotten around to see parts of america that showed a quiet, resilient, faithful people that love their family. They may have some of those intergenerational faults, they may roll their eyes at you when you tell them it's hard finding work as a young white man, but they're still there for you. You're blood, and they know it. They just don't have it in them to tell you how much they love you out loud