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minus-square@Zarathustra1899linkEnglish5•1 year agoYep, the way I see it is that every subsequent generation after the “Greatest Generation” has been fucked in one way or another.
minus-square@_TheNardDog_linkEnglish8•1 year agoThey fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another’s throats. Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself. — Philip Larkin
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-21 year agoDamn. He’s from my city and there’s a pub here named after him which I’ve never visited. I never knew he was an antinatalist. Now that I do, I might go and check it out.
Yep, the way I see it is that every subsequent generation after the “Greatest Generation” has been fucked in one way or another.
They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another’s throats.
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself.
— Philip Larkin
Damn. He’s from my city and there’s a pub here named after him which I’ve never visited. I never knew he was an antinatalist. Now that I do, I might go and check it out.