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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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[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

In your dad's case it seems narcissism is at play, which isn't an unheard of reaction to abuse. His own dad wasn't a 'safe' target for his very justified anger, so he redirected it to his mother because she was a 'safe' target in the form of entitlement.