I also taught myself, yes, not being taught something is not the same thing as having no responsibility for learning that thing, and yes, taking control of your own life and making up for the defecits of your parents as best you can is a good idea, often vital.
But the point I am trying to make is that at scale, not everyone eventually teaches themself… and teaching your kids how to cook is… or at least was, one of the most important, oldest, traditional elements of being a parent to children. It is one of the most fundamental essential life skills to pass on.
And Boomers just largely decided they just didn’t need to do that, at a broad scale. And they are abberant in this respect. They are the first generation in at least US history to just assume that things they were taught or had the opportunity to learn … were simply universal and innate.
The spoiled narcissist generation broke a literally ancient human tradition, because they’re terrible at nurturing.
They also tend to just mock people who don’t know skills they know. Psychologically, what that does is make people feel like incapable idiots… many people who are consistently discouraged are less likely to believe they even can learn a new skill.
The ‘kick the kids out at 18’ is also largely a phenomenon widely popularized by Boomers… before them, it was much more common to have a multi generational household, or at least to house the kids untill they had their own capability to move out on their own.
Boomers cause problems and then blame other people for having to deal with the problems they caused… they can’t figure out the cause and effect, they can’t be responsible if it means acknowledging that they caused the problem.
I also taught myself, yes, not being taught something is not the same thing as having no responsibility for learning that thing, and yes, taking control of your own life and making up for the defecits of your parents as best you can is a good idea, often vital.
But the point I am trying to make is that at scale, not everyone eventually teaches themself… and teaching your kids how to cook is… or at least was, one of the most important, oldest, traditional elements of being a parent to children. It is one of the most fundamental essential life skills to pass on.
And Boomers just largely decided they just didn’t need to do that, at a broad scale. And they are abberant in this respect. They are the first generation in at least US history to just assume that things they were taught or had the opportunity to learn … were simply universal and innate.
The spoiled narcissist generation broke a literally ancient human tradition, because they’re terrible at nurturing.
They also tend to just mock people who don’t know skills they know. Psychologically, what that does is make people feel like incapable idiots… many people who are consistently discouraged are less likely to believe they even can learn a new skill.
The ‘kick the kids out at 18’ is also largely a phenomenon widely popularized by Boomers… before them, it was much more common to have a multi generational household, or at least to house the kids untill they had their own capability to move out on their own.
Boomers cause problems and then blame other people for having to deal with the problems they caused… they can’t figure out the cause and effect, they can’t be responsible if it means acknowledging that they caused the problem.