Yup, this. However, reading/watching something from the past 100 years does tend to bring it home in a more visceral way. People having a hard time connecting with the experiences of people that are still living (boomers, Silent generation) are going to really struggle connecting to ancient Sumerians.
Adam Conover has the perfect talk on the notion of “generations”…I honestly wish he’d expand on this talk and put together instances in a slide deck where he goes from Gen Z (or alpha) and these kinds of narratives all the way back to colonial times or whatever he has the energy for.
Also, didn’t the protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye complain a lot about others being fake and so on?
Forget 20th century media, there are Sumerian cuneiform tablets with parents complaining about their kids’ work ethics.
Yup, this. However, reading/watching something from the past 100 years does tend to bring it home in a more visceral way. People having a hard time connecting with the experiences of people that are still living (boomers, Silent generation) are going to really struggle connecting to ancient Sumerians.
Adam Conover has the perfect talk on the notion of “generations”…I honestly wish he’d expand on this talk and put together instances in a slide deck where he goes from Gen Z (or alpha) and these kinds of narratives all the way back to colonial times or whatever he has the energy for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HFwok9SlQQ&t=1s