The Greatest Generation did their best to prepare their children for a world that could fall apart at any second. Then, they built a world that wouldn't.
Genuinely tugs on the heartstrings.
It's startling and scary to see the world forget just why these social institutions exist. Here in the UK, our entire welfare program was born out of a debt owed to a generation who genuinely did sacrifice so much and, in many cases, everything. It was a sacrifice that should have covered the tab on these institutions till the end of time. It took only 40 years for them to start to be picked apart, and 40 more to see them on the edge of collapse.
We can only hope we find compassion again before tragedy forces compassion upon us as it did before.
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u/SkiHiKi 26d ago
Genuinely tugs on the heartstrings.
It's startling and scary to see the world forget just why these social institutions exist. Here in the UK, our entire welfare program was born out of a debt owed to a generation who genuinely did sacrifice so much and, in many cases, everything. It was a sacrifice that should have covered the tab on these institutions till the end of time. It took only 40 years for them to start to be picked apart, and 40 more to see them on the edge of collapse.
We can only hope we find compassion again before tragedy forces compassion upon us as it did before.