Our generational event

[Deuce Caboose]

Not to overstate the obvious, but here we are.

I’ve long held the belief that my generation has largely lived a charmed life.

Our parents, children of the Great Depression grew into the adults who literally saved the planet, defeating our enemies in Europe and the South Pacific.

It was their generation that paid with their blood, and treasure to ensure that our nation would endure, and in doing so, to give their children a better life than they had.

God bless them, for having the courage required to make the sacrifice that was needed, for the greater good.

Surely, that was their generational event.

Their children, grew up without the hardships common just a generation before.
Our generation prospered exponentially. Surely the good life was our’s to be had.

But in the back of my mind, there would have to be a reckoning.

Our generational event.

I think it’s here, and this is it.

The polarization of the discourse here is evident.

Everybody wants what’s best for them, and their family.
That’s just human nature, isn’t it?

But does it have to be us vs them?

What is lacking, in my opinion, is the long view.

My sense is that this virus will kill a segment of our population outright.
My sense also, is that this virus will financially ruin a segment of our population as well.

Such is our lot in life.
Nobody comes out of this unscathed.

When history is written of our days, how will our children’s children think of us?
Will we have the courage to persevere and to sacrifice like the previous generation?
Do we have what it takes to deal with our generational event?

Perhaps the greatest lesson they taught us is that it isn’t about us, really.

Rather, it’s about those yet to come.

 

[Telecaster]

With all due respect, two months of sitting at home or wearing masks outside and wondering where all the toilet paper went does not compare in the slightest with the depression or any world war. Most taken by this virus could just as easily have been taken by the flu, heart disease, etc. and probably were when you consider that hospitals were told to declare Covid-19 the cause of death for pretty much anything respiratory. Hospitals were not overwhelmed, people were not dropping like flies in the street. This was not a reckoning, this was politicians and the news media pushing us around because they feared for their jobs more than they feared for ours. I feel this whole "event" was grossly exaggerated, but that's just me, no one needs to agree with me.

 

[robvious]

binge watching TV, having cocktails 7 days a week and eating delivery food is not a sacrifice on par with any of the previous generations...
this situation has not been a good time for most... but people are not dying in the streets because of hunger, are not being shot at or bombed... sadly this "sacrifice" is about all our current society can take - 7 weeks of "spring break vacation"