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They always love their grandkids but never their kids 🥀
Here in USA, where I was born and raised, I find since the 1990's that grandparents absolutely despise their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. They act all nice in person, but when it comes to climate change, housing prices, they do everything they possibly can to wreck the future of future generations of their family. I've seen this in many places I have lived in USA: Ohio, Indiana, Floridian, Texas, Arizona.
I moved into an RV full time in 1999 (working from home), I was only age 30, and I spent a lot of time around these retired grandparents who go on and on about how much they love their grandchildren. But my god, do they wish Hell on earth with their attitudes towards polluting the water and "drill baby drill" for oil, spreading plastics, food safety and baby food supply, politicians and leaders they want these grandchildren to live under, pro-Russian takeover of the world, etc.
Don't fall for their whole "I have compassion and love for my children's children" lines, a lot of them have have anti-compassion anti-empathy values of Elon Musk,
Even the ones that currently rail against him.
Yes. It doesn't really matter what age group, skin color, wealth class, hate is always the problem. Doesn't matter what time period, what nation flag, gender, hair color, eye color, written or spoken language, intelligence level, dress or fashion, none of those superficial things.
In the early 1950's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr studied the Japanese and Germans and Russians and Americans and people in general in World Wars... and he came up with a formula in 1954 that explains all our problems...
"But I'm here to say to you this morning that some things are right and some things are wrong. Eternally so, absolutely so. It's wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It's wrong in America, it's wrong in Germany, it's wrong in Russia, it's wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and it's wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong. It's wrong to throw our lives away in riotous living." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"There is nothing more tragic than to see an individual whose heart is filled with hate. He comes to the point that he becomes a pathological case. For the person who hates, you can stand up and see a person and that person can be beautiful, and you will call them ugly. For the person who hates, the beautiful becomes ugly and the ugly becomes beautiful. For the person who hates, the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does. You can't see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed." - January 11, 1944. President of the United States of America
It's to the point of just outright contrairian. This one is too fat, that one too thin, this one too cheerful, that one a sad sack.
I recently spent time with someone who has it all and resented that someone else spent money on something she herself didn't have and can easily obtain from the grocery a few blocks away.
The White House media messaging / Elon Musk Twitter messaging in year 2024 and year 2025 is constant broadcast of egoism / egomania values. Rupert Murdoch media platforms broadcasting wealth televangelism, worship of wealth lords / land lords / etc. It's self-destructive.
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality. Life has its beginning and its maturity comes into being when an individual rises above self to something greater. Few individuals learn this, and so they go through life merely existing and never living. Now you see signs all along in your everyday life with individuals who are the victims of self-centeredness. They are the people who live an eternal “I.” They do not have the capacity to project the “I” into the “Thou.” They do not have the mental equipment for an eternal, dangerous and sometimes costly altruism. They live a life of perpetual egotism. And they are the victims all around of the egocentric predicament.... - August 11, 1957
That's one of the things so enchanting around Buddhist and Taoist teachings, "There is no 'I." People attached to their false egos can't begin to fathom this and will write volumes explaining how the "I" is the only thing that matters.