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In reply to the discussion: This, my friends, is far too typical for my generation. [View all]struggle4progress
(117,949 posts)You also say "I do blame Boomers for their apparent lack of concern and action on this subject"
I think that if you checked carefully, you'd also find many of us here spent the Reagan years fighting such bullshizz and have since then have continued to try all manner of ways to fight back
But the learning curve has been steep for me, and I think also for everyone else: whenever I finally learn one new piece of the puzzle well, explaining to other people exactly how such and such a tactic might work (under some circumstances) requires me to walk back down to the bottom of the little slope I've conquered and restart the uphill climb to demonstrate what I'm suggesting. And since IMO what's really required is a fully self-conscious mass movement, there's no way to insist on any point or demand anything from listeners -- and there's no way to avoid listening to their understandings either: in fact, that's essential
The bottom line is simply that progress always has been and always will be a real struggle, and much of the work is painfully slow, until enough people are engaged, at which point the dynamic changes, and one suddenly is forced up a new sleep learning curve, where one begins again learning one piece at a time of a new puzzle. And it can be psychologically exhausting if one insists on thinking optimistically or pessimistically -- quite a lot of intellectual and emotional habits simply must be abandoned, including the habit of trying to think things through too carefully, which must be replaced by a more scientific process of trying this than that than something else to see what works