The Generation Gap on DU is real

[Hekate]

208. You may have noticed that DU is not the MSM, nor are we terribly impressed with them

Here’s a thing you may have missed in your alienation: the war against Fascism and Naziism and the Axis was very present in the consciousness of the country when we, the Olde Boomers, were children. For those with a mind to absorb these lessons, they were around us in abundance. How else did you imagine we learned to recognize these abominations when they showed up here?

How can you imagine that the issues we have known all our lives are not still with us each day in 2023? I find that curious indeed.
Book burnings — my mom’s high school classmates included a Jewish refugee who witnessed first hand that horror in Germany. Photos abounded…
I’ve been conscious of overpopulation since at least 1970, over 50 years, and as a result, I determined to have 2 and only 2 children, and so it was.
I’ve been conscious of the importance of fresh water to the islands of the Pacific since, say, 1961, middle school, when my Science teacher described the lens of underground fresh water floating above the waters of the sea in our Hawai’ian islands. So fragile.
I studied what were then the Trust Territories of the Pacific in the 1960s, another remnant of our parents’ late war, and contemplate the utter fragility of the existence of Micronesia, the tiny islands and atolls — and decades later when the first signs appeared of the rising seas my heart broke for the coming extinguishment of cultures that had existed for millennia.

Nothing is wasted. Nothing is forgotten. You want something posted — post it. If you don’t want it to sink too fast, do a few self-kicks. If you really want it to hang around, pick a forum other than GD.

But don’t blame the rest of us for failing to make every post one of your choosing.