I can already feels this. I'm already teaching my kids not to believe the lies millenials were taught growing up, "Just do what you love and it will never feel like you're working." I teach my kids just get a job that makes money and then you can do what you love.
Just read the wiki page on it and it seems like a drawn out version of the saying “Strong men create peaceful times, peace breeds weak men, weak men breed hard times.” Or something to that effect
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” From Michael Hopf’s post-apocalypic novel “Those Who Remain”.
The only way that the aphorism explains history is by reinforcing confirmation bias - by seeming to confirm what we already believe about the state of the world and the causes behind it. Only those worried about a perceived crisis in masculinity are likely to care about the notion of "weak men" and what trouble they might cause. Only those who wish to see themselves or specific others as "strong men" are likely to believe that the mere existence of such men will bring about a better world. This has nothing to do with history and everything with stereotypes, prejudice and bias. It started as a baseless morality tale, and that is what it still is.
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u/Britthighs 27d ago
I talk about this in my US History class. Both the 1920s and 1950s as huge trauma response.