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Sometimes You Don’t Get to Have Elders. In Their Place, Vicious Old People. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This goes along with my initial reaction to OP.

I don't think it was when they stopped being coddled. I think it was when they got an age to start paying attention to politics or reading the newspaper (or when they finally had the tools/faculty to understand what was going on).

When we pick up the paper for the first time with open eyes, we let out a collective "oh god..."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Unlikely they read it and understood it. The average American has a reading of comprehension no higher than 5th grade.

https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy

This limitation leads to anxiety and confusion due to a lack of ability to abstract.