Transgenerational ties are at a low level and the more ‘educated’ and secular the individual the more this is true. I regularly hear comments along the lines of ‘I could care less what happens after I die.’ from both friends and close family members. These people are non TP type ‘conservative Republicans’ sort of. All are ‘prochoice’, one of the women rabidly so. I have seen her ask young college women who have engagement rings why they want to ‘ruin’ their lives with marriage and family when they could have a ‘fulfilling career’. The adult children of all these people are in some significant way dysfunctional. The one who has a family married a angry control freak who has convinced his wife to work outside the home while he ‘acts as the primary caregiver’. I am afraid this rot of selfish, self centered, uncaring and unconnected lifestyle has been embraced by a Karens chance of the upper middle and professional classes. There certainly isn't a scintilla of concern for their country or the well being of the nation in these people. Like the bunny says ‘it's all about me.’
I know a lot of people like that. Push comes to shove, they genuinely don’t care about anything because they don’t have kids, national pride or personal religious beliefs. They are their own universe, the borders of which run no further than their own lifespan.
Funny thing about that type. They’re happy to push the country into ruin in order to get theirs, because it’s all about getting whatever you can loot while the looting is good. Once the collapse happens, however, that kind makes lousy soldiers and poor survivors. They’ll be scattered to the winds, to whatever table scraps Fortune throws them.
People with ties, skills and a vision for the future will be the ones to survive hard times and come out on top. This is a recurring theme in human history, and will be no different this time.