People on here would probably think my parents are evil but I just think they are from a different generation. There’s only so much adaptation a human brain can do in a lifetime and at some point your views will be set in stone if you’ve been alive since the 1950s.
I suppose it’s related to my view of memory. Like I subscribe to the view that you have a fixed amount of memory when you become conscious at 2-3 years old and then you just cram more years into that set amount of memory each passing year. At a certain point your capacity to take in new information and hold it in your brain diminishes so I hold them to a different standard to someone who is not aged 70+.
Edit: A good example of this is my partner has an immediate family with a lot of neurodivergent traits. My partner was basically their carer while she was growing up. We’ve been dating since 2011, our families have started to mix more in the past 5 years. Parents have been alive for 75 years so that’s like 1/15th of their memory taken up with this information. It’s only recently that they have really cottoned on to how disabled my wife’s family is. Something needs to be immediate and persistent for an extended period of time to sink in for older folks.
None of this is universally true. The answer to the posts questions, for you is literally that you haven’t yet. You’re still in the excuse making stage and might be actually be perpetuating the behaviors.
You wouldn’t judge a 35 year old and a 75 year old by different standards when it comes to being informed about current societal attitudes?
Edit: Also like, what is the standard for evil? That’s become relevant to the conversation now. I don’t know if this is a US specific thing but I was spuriously saying a lot of people on here would seemingly consider them evil for being right-wing by today’s standards. I was jokingly alluding to that because it’s preposterous to call someone “evil” for having right of centre views.
People on here would probably think my parents are evil but I just think they are from a different generation. There’s only so much adaptation a human brain can do in a lifetime and at some point your views will be set in stone if you’ve been alive since the 1950s.
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I suppose it’s related to my view of memory. Like I subscribe to the view that you have a fixed amount of memory when you become conscious at 2-3 years old and then you just cram more years into that set amount of memory each passing year. At a certain point your capacity to take in new information and hold it in your brain diminishes so I hold them to a different standard to someone who is not aged 70+.
Edit: A good example of this is my partner has an immediate family with a lot of neurodivergent traits. My partner was basically their carer while she was growing up. We’ve been dating since 2011, our families have started to mix more in the past 5 years. Parents have been alive for 75 years so that’s like 1/15th of their memory taken up with this information. It’s only recently that they have really cottoned on to how disabled my wife’s family is. Something needs to be immediate and persistent for an extended period of time to sink in for older folks.
None of this is universally true. The answer to the posts questions, for you is literally that you haven’t yet. You’re still in the excuse making stage and might be actually be perpetuating the behaviors.
You wouldn’t judge a 35 year old and a 75 year old by different standards when it comes to being informed about current societal attitudes?
Edit: Also like, what is the standard for evil? That’s become relevant to the conversation now. I don’t know if this is a US specific thing but I was spuriously saying a lot of people on here would seemingly consider them evil for being right-wing by today’s standards. I was jokingly alluding to that because it’s preposterous to call someone “evil” for having right of centre views.