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This is SO true for SO many familiess. Intergenerational social swing is a real thing.

If you've got way cool grandparents that are the exception and not that rule, it's critical that you spend time with them - as adults.

I got decades with my grandparents - both children of the Great Depression - and I learned SO much from them. (Who'd have thought that budgeting and housekeeping and living with little money to spend would be a critical skill in 2025?)

Truth is, they raised 9 kids and none were bigots or judgemental at all (I had awesome aunts and uncles) and I think that all my cousins that spent time with them picked up on their kindness and generosity and knowledge..

It's pithy, but I tend to see a broader materialist cycle at work. Folks who say "I'm not going to make the mistakes my parents made" tend to be class-mobile and dealing with conditions their parents didn't necessarily face.

A classic instance is anti-vax hysterics. A population that has grown up in a society where diseases are generally mild and uncommon, but academic performance is life-defining and hyper-competitive will view the phantom menace of autism as more existential than the real-but-distant mortal peril of polio or diphtheria. Similarly, a population that is growing up under a government heavily invested in controlling the spread of deadly diseases will receive propaganda that is radically different from a government heavily invested in poisoning cultural attitudes against socialist health care policies.

In the same vein, Boomer parents telling their kids that they need a college education were responding to a blossoming economic demand for high end professional services. Meanwhile, Millennial/GenX parents skeptical of the benefit of college education are responding to an austere economic model that punishes long term debts and imports low-cost professional services from overseas.

My grandparents had children in their early 20s and were small business owners. Not a lot to copy for me there even if I wanted to.

My great-grandparents were adults in Nazi Germany. IDK if they were old enough to vote when the Nazis came into power, though.

Everyone who remembered is dead.

• The wealth imbalance of the Gilded Age
• The rise of fascism
• WWII
• Diseases

Not sure how that relates to TFA. In that movie, everything just collapsed off-screen with no explanation given at all. If it had any kind of message it's that it's pointless to fight fascism so you might as well just let the Empire win.

I'll defend TFA (and that's speaking from a fan who saw the first movie's release as a kid). The sequels had potential to be good in their own right, if they had a full story/direction planned out and controlled consistency throughout. At least for all their faults the Prequels had a plan, so the execution is weak but the plot is a good story. TFA is a good movie (with issues). The other two are flailing around.

In an alternate timeline Tony Gilroy is somehow the writer for all the Star Wars movies and shows.

Nah, I'm my own mistakes, or maybe I just didn't get as far from my dad's mistakes as I had hoped