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What does our generation fear?
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I'm from Gen X... from what I can tell most people's biggest fear is having a job that isn't 'creative'
To the person who made this thread-
I don't think you have a clue as to what our generation fears either. Terrorism is a HUGE one for many across the world and the only ones who aren't are smug and spoiled westerners like you and myself.
Personally I think our generation fears hitting rock bottom. The Great Depression is a distant memory for anyone born after 1935, but I don't think many "escapists" on here would be able to imagin losing their homes, jobs, and all their finances. So yes, failure of the economy, failure of technology,failure of environment sustainability and the failure of civilization (things we've been afriad of since the days of the Cold War.. only now Global warming,overcrowding,shrinking resources and mutated diseases have been added to the mix).
Just look at all the zombie apocolypse movies that have come out..what do they all have in common? The total breakdown of society and a small group of people banding together to face what's left over when the world as they knew it is completely gone.
I don't think you have a clue as to what our generation fears either. Terrorism is a HUGE one for many across the world and the only ones who aren't are smug and spoiled westerners like you and myself.
Personally I think our generation fears hitting rock bottom. The Great Depression is a distant memory for anyone born after 1935, but I don't think many "escapists" on here would be able to imagin losing their homes, jobs, and all their finances. So yes, failure of the economy, failure of technology,failure of environment sustainability and the failure of civilization (things we've been afriad of since the days of the Cold War.. only now Global warming,overcrowding,shrinking resources and mutated diseases have been added to the mix).
Just look at all the zombie apocolypse movies that have come out..what do they all have in common? The total breakdown of society and a small group of people banding together to face what's left over when the world as they knew it is completely gone.
The realization/belief that the generation before me completely sold my nation down the river into debt in order to satisfy their own vanity. Because of them, things now appear as if the "good days" are over and that things are only going to get worse. It may not be a "greatest fear", but the idea that life is in decline is certainly the starting point for the creation of many fears from that point, be it the collapse of society, WW3, or some other catastrophic event.
Just my opinion.
Just my opinion.
I fear the inevitable collapse of economies which rely on the constant consumption of limited resources.
Hmmmmm.....
Some fear Sex,
Drugs,
Apathy,
Economic collapse,
Chaos,
Terrorism,
Fear,
Spiders,
3D,
Sequels,
Remakes,
Failure,
Death,
Homosexuals,
Ignorance,
Religion,
Equality,
Liberals,
Conservatives,
Insanity,
Socialism,
Communism,
Fascism,
Nationalism,
Capitalism,
Nihilism,
Anarchy,
Boredom,
Communication,
Racism,
Theft,
Murder,
Rape,
Love,
Hate,
Greed,
Pride,
Zombies,
Global Warming,
Aliens,
End of Days,
Reason,
Pregnancy,
Abortion,
Change,
Elitism,
Disease,
Poverty,
Authority,
and Trust.........................
...........to name a few.
Some fear Sex,
Drugs,
Apathy,
Economic collapse,
Chaos,
Terrorism,
Fear,
Spiders,
3D,
Sequels,
Remakes,
Failure,
Death,
Homosexuals,
Ignorance,
Religion,
Equality,
Liberals,
Conservatives,
Insanity,
Socialism,
Communism,
Fascism,
Nationalism,
Capitalism,
Nihilism,
Anarchy,
Boredom,
Communication,
Racism,
Theft,
Murder,
Rape,
Love,
Hate,
Greed,
Pride,
Zombies,
Global Warming,
Aliens,
End of Days,
Reason,
Pregnancy,
Abortion,
Change,
Elitism,
Disease,
Poverty,
Authority,
and Trust.........................
...........to name a few.
The entire generation is a bit too much of a big and diverse group to target, no?
It doesn't appear that most people think at all in their daily lives, they just simply go on living mindlessly. So I don't assume they've got much in terms of fears.
If anything, we're closer to accepting various differences then any other time.
Edit: For me, descending into dark ages of emotional-guided idiocy and superstition - religious or otherwise - would be among the top "fears". Although with my generally bleak view of the world, it's not much of a fear. If that happened, I'd just become a secular terrorist fighting a world of faith and idiocy. Irony.
It doesn't appear that most people think at all in their daily lives, they just simply go on living mindlessly. So I don't assume they've got much in terms of fears.
Eh, wouldn't that be the 50s generation or something? Last time I've looked, there are plenty of accepted "differences" compared to, say, 3 or 4 decades ago. Y'know, the entire LGBT community being legal and able to represent themselves and accepted in mainstream society, and stuff like that.xChevelle24 said:
If anything, we're closer to accepting various differences then any other time.
Edit: For me, descending into dark ages of emotional-guided idiocy and superstition - religious or otherwise - would be among the top "fears". Although with my generally bleak view of the world, it's not much of a fear. If that happened, I'd just become a secular terrorist fighting a world of faith and idiocy. Irony.
getting so comfy with the easy life that you are too weak and lazy to do anything when faced with a challenge.
we should fear that at least...
we should fear that at least...
something that we dont understand and don't kow abuot. that is humanity's fear in general...
so in short... ME
lol
so in short... ME
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Two major things here:
1. Crime, the fear of crime is at an all time high.
2. Zombies. It keeps coming up in conversation thanks to all the strange diseases abroad with rabies-like symptoms.
1. Crime, the fear of crime is at an all time high.
2. Zombies. It keeps coming up in conversation thanks to all the strange diseases abroad with rabies-like symptoms.
Being forced to pay for porn.
Stephanie Meyers and her Twi-hards.
Sarah Palin. (At least, the sane ones)
Crazy monkeys.
Stephanie Meyers and her Twi-hards.
Sarah Palin. (At least, the sane ones)
Crazy monkeys.
We don't have a big scary thing going on, so it's left to the media to try and scare us.
Swine Flu, Terrorism, Pedophiles, Desensitization, Nukes from various parts of Asia, Global Warming, Depression, 2012, Energy Crisis, basicly whatever they can come up with.
Swine Flu, Terrorism, Pedophiles, Desensitization, Nukes from various parts of Asia, Global Warming, Depression, 2012, Energy Crisis, basicly whatever they can come up with.
What we do not hear from them [the global warming believers], from any one of them, is the slightest indication of puzzlement over how or why so suddenly, in this age of the greatest emergency our planet has ever faced?global warming?things have gotten cool. Not a furrowed brow among the lot over the consideration that, contrary to the visions of Al Gore and David Suzuki or NASA?s own anti-global warming Nostradamus, James Hansen, the great trend line of an ever-warming world is being contradicted nightly in their own forecasts.HG131 said:
