Poll of the Day > Why did older generations get cause and effect confused with each other so much?

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For example, I've had bad eyesight from birth due to genetics (my mom wears glasses), and so whenever I was watching TV was a child, I would always sit on the floor really close to the TV because I literally could not see the screen clearly if I sat on the couch. But my grandma would scold me for this, telling me that I would ruin my eyes if I sat too close to the TV. I tried to explain to her that I couldn't see the TV from the couch (which honestly should have been a sign) but she just dismissed my objections and repeated her command to sit on the couch. Then a few years later when I was in 5th grade, my mom finally took me to see an optometrist, and I was diagnosed with near-sightedness and prescribed a pair of glasses. When my grandma found out, instead of recognizing her mistake and apologizing, she doubled down, saying, "I told him not to sit so close to the TV. He always had perfect eyesight before he did that..." And I was just like, "What? No I didn't! My eyesight was bad from birth! That was the whole reason why I sat so close to the TV in the first place! You're getting the whole situation backwards!"

Stuff like this can be incredibly frustrating, and it seems to be more prevalent among members of older generations... -_-

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too many beatings

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boomers were exposed to a lot of lead back in the day, which really did a number on their cognitive abilities

People get cause and effect screwed up ALL the time. I mean, a huge factor of the Black Death getting as bad as it did was people thinking cats were the problem. The reality was that cats were following and eating the rats that were carrying the fleas, so with the cats gone the plague BOOMED. Of course places that weren't affected by the plague didn't have as many rats and, thusly, didn't have as many cats... But people assumed that meant CATS were the problem and not RATS.

But really, pick any period in human history and you'll see people blaming something unrelated, or even helping, for something HURTING just because. Millennials aren't immune or free of blame by any means either. You'll see plenty of people pointing to a problem and blaming something else instead of the actual source of the problem.

Here's a simple rule of thumb. People will always find a way to blame something they hate and defend something they approve of regardless of the reality of the situation. Every time. It's why there's crazy people who are blaming 5G for COVID.

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Unbridled9 posted...

People get cause and effect screwed up ALL the time.

Pretty much. By and large, people just suck at understanding situations and not being stupid about them.

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Because the only thing dumber than most older people is most younger people. Most people of any age group are fucking idiots. It just doesnt seem that way because more intelligent people tend to seek each other out and kinda clump together.

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get your eyes checked
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