[munificent]

I often imagine what it must have been like to be born in the 1920s. By 1945, you would have lived through a Depression and the worst war the world had ever seen by a large margin. You would have entered a world where a few button presses could wipe out all life on Earth. You watched the rise of communism. The economy of your adulthood was worse than what you were born into. It must have seemed like the arrow of progress had permanently broken and humanity was doomed.

And yet, without knowing it, ahead of you was the Civil Rights Act, the women's liberation movement, the environmental movement and the Clean Air Act, increased support for interacial relationships, gay rights.

In the midst of that dark time, it would have been hard to believe any of those could be ahead of you. Who knows what could be ahead of us now?

[mwcampbell]

And then we ended up calling those people (born in the 1920s) the greatest generation. Sure, maybe the greatest generation is always just the generation that's about to die. But maybe the combination of hardship and opportunity also had something to do with it. So maybe we've got another "greatest generation" in the making.

[munificent]

> So maybe we've got another "greatest generation" in the making.

I have elementary age kids and it is fascinating seeing how that generation is growing up. They are so much more community oriented and caring that my generation was. They seem to understand that there are hard problems to be solved and that they won't be solved alone.

I'm filled with sorrow at the world they are inheriting, but I have a lot of optimism that they will do a better job with it than we have.

[lovich]

That sounds a lot like https://www.thesecret.tv/ and I've already discounted the idea. Everything ends eventually.

[munificent]

> That sounds a lot like https://www.thesecret.tv/

There's nothing metaphysical about observing that we have imperfect knowledge of the future and some potentialities are positive.

> I've already discounted the idea.

That's a personal choice of attitude and perspective, not an objective property of the universe. You're welcome to it, of course, but it's probably not accomplishing much for you.

> Everything ends eventually.

All the more reason to make the most of it and find the joy we can while it lasts. If it's going to end either way, why obsess about it?