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Can the entire psychology of Statesian boomers be explained by being regularly beaten and otherwise abused by a generation of great depression and WWII survivors with untreated PTSD... (lemmy.ml)
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, itself inflicted by ruling class overprivileged psychos unsatisfied by merely feeding them into the meat grinder?

With the inevitably resulting intergenerational pathology being to inflict that abuse on their children in a culture that allows them no healthy outlet, as well as resenting their parents for not giving them Nazis to fight to morally justify said abuse?

Or am I overthinking this?

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[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

Idk I think the abuse is on balance more an outcome of the pre existing context than a primary cause of what came later.

Lots of people have faced abuse on a mass scale and with more severity and didn't become the baby boomers because only these people had the material support necissariy to do that.

As to not having the nazis: there were many fascists available to fight during baby boomers youth, both locally and globally. Most were totally disinterested in seizing the opportunity. The difference isn't in being given Nazis, it was in not being organized by the state to fight against rival powers who happened to be fascist.