that's the generational split, there's one with the millennials too. boomer 1 vs boomer 2 over the vietnam war millennial 1 vs millennial 2 over the me terrorism wars. my theory is the schisms were deliberate. i think they served 2 major purposes. 1.) nationalism and martial aptitude are framed as the thesis, the antithesis is the radicalization of the latter half of the generation towards grievance/hippy-like cultivation, the synthesis is a degraded sense of nationalism and martial aptitude. 2.) disrupts coupling and degrades family culture, as men in their late 20s/early 30s find themselves ideologically irreconcilable to the early 20s mating pool that now ideologically opposes them. what you get is a larger than natural population of failed men and women -- and conditions for a social state where drug use and bad parenting are more prevalent. both boomers and millennials experienced this dynamic with uncanny similarity.
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