>Hard times create strong men
The Great Depression and WW2 helped toughen a generation after the roaring twenties
>Strong men create good times
The WW2 generation helped bring back prosperity to the United States and made it a superpower country
>Good times create weak men
The Boomers and Gen X took advantage of the prosperity and formed the hippie and post modernism movements which pacified society
>Weak men create hard times
Millenials being so apathetic towards political corruption is slowly causing social and economic decay everywhere
Are we close to going full circle?
god i hope so
so Gen Z and their children (Gen Alpha) will be strong men?
>>136298646
yes
Gen Z is redpilled as fuck.
But I don't know how
>>136298706
easier to filter out the truth when youre a blank canvas
easier to find truth when you grow up on the internet
kids have a good sense of sniffing out info that feels right
>>136298306
Your time spans are a bit messed up there senpai.
20->30->40s
40s->2010->2017
Feels like you're just trying to use this nonsense to justify your already preconceived notion.
It's correct. But you don't know what hard times are. We have not seen any hard times yet.
>>136298706
Gen Z is redpilled because they don't respect their parents cucked up ideas. Millennials are confused because they didn't respect THEIR parents sound ideas.
>>136299013
Pretty optimistic. Seems to be a lot of weak men creating more good times and even weaker men. And this ignores that good times often coincide with hard times.
This could go either way. Strong men can create bad times. Populist simplifications are for weak men.
>>136298306
No because this circle is imaginary, the gaps between the good times and bad times are almost always multi-generational. Beyond that your "bad times" aren't that bad. Yep living in the western world in 2017 is so fucking awful, the infant mortality rate is near 50%, the average lifespan is 50 years, famines are common, and horrible poverty are everywhere.
If the strong/weak good/bad men/times shit was true we would have seen large scale improvements in the quality of life soon after major conflicts or points of adversity such as the fall of Rome, the 30 years war, WW1, the American civil war, the Mongol sack of Baghdad, the collapse of the Manchu dynasty, etc. Instead the only improvement after the 30 years war is that people were no longer dying from the 30 years war.
This concept is people noticing that times are better before they get worse, and worse before they get better, and assuming it is a deep cycle of humans and adversity instead of basic logic.
This logic is like saying "cold weather makes fat men, fat men make hot weather, hot weather makes skinny men, and skinny men make cold weather" you assume that because you put on a few pounds during the winter that summer comes because you got fat instead of realizing that "hey temperatures change."
>>136299306
>We have not seen any hard times yet.
The Great Recession was the worst economic collapse since the Depression. Manufacturing jobs are plummeting, the middle class is shrinking, brick and motor businesses are going bankrupt and wages are stagnate while the cost of living increases
The next recession will put us into some really hard times
>>136298306
There ain't no GOOD TIMES in the Third World.
Fucking First World cuck worldview.
Stop blaming others for your own faggotry.