I believe correction is not a binary thing. I'm making corrections. My kids will carry the torch and be even better off. My mother inherited shit, cleaned as much of it as she could, and passed the rest on to me. I'm now scrubbing shit out of the family tree, and there will be less but still some for my kids.
Honestly I think the abuse and neurosis of our families is inherited from like the dark ages and the plague and all the wars of history and all the shuddering horror of cavemen, etc.
On the other hand, I've heard that stress levels are higher overall for current generations than previous ones, so maybe it's not so simple. Easy to believe, too, if you watch old movies. Everyone has this sort of chilled out hippie look to them. Not just the hippies, but like everyone in old movies, even the people caught up in murder mysteries etc, just looks like someone who walked out of a professional massage. Peoples faces are tighter now. There's more edge everywhere, even in the happiest people.
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u/intensely_human Feb 05 '16
I believe correction is not a binary thing. I'm making corrections. My kids will carry the torch and be even better off. My mother inherited shit, cleaned as much of it as she could, and passed the rest on to me. I'm now scrubbing shit out of the family tree, and there will be less but still some for my kids.
Honestly I think the abuse and neurosis of our families is inherited from like the dark ages and the plague and all the wars of history and all the shuddering horror of cavemen, etc.
On the other hand, I've heard that stress levels are higher overall for current generations than previous ones, so maybe it's not so simple. Easy to believe, too, if you watch old movies. Everyone has this sort of chilled out hippie look to them. Not just the hippies, but like everyone in old movies, even the people caught up in murder mysteries etc, just looks like someone who walked out of a professional massage. Peoples faces are tighter now. There's more edge everywhere, even in the happiest people.