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OhhhJa posted...

Sure but there are much more noticeable differences between generations now because of the rate of technological advances. Thousands of years ago someone wasn't really generally living a much different live from their grandparents

Yeah, but that makes it worse, not better.

If a farmer in ancient Syracuse thought his grandson was a dumbass in spite of them more or less having incredibly similar life experiences, how much worse is it when one generation grows up almost living in an entirely different world from each other?

I always used to point out that my great-grandmother was basically born into a world where the only methods of travel were either horses (or horse adjacent) or steam-powered ships or trains (which still weren't fully integrated into society), whereas when my mother was 21 humans landed on the fucking moon. It's hard to mentally process just how much changed in the span of the last 200 years or so (and how much of an impact that it had on culture and society).

Even now it's hard to get anyone under the age of 20 to mentally process the idea that there was once a time when cell phones didn't exist and everyone wasn't more or less living their entire lives online, and it wasn't that long ago.