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Originally Posted by LouCypher
In contrast I see this as pointing to a trend in how people view the world and as more information has become readily available to a wider range of people humanity and the younger generations cant help but have to think about more than just themselves. Approaching 30 myself I see not so much as a particular generation being more out for themselves just more recognition of the fact that this type of lifestyle is evolving as the norm will have to be people taking a wider view of the world and how they can coexist within it before there isnt one left.
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One of my favourite Newsweek covers, which I actually have a copy of somewhere, from 1971, young voters lining up to get involved, the cover wondering which way the huge Baby Boom demographic of The Protest Generation might vote. An amendment change, lowering the voter age to 18, had enfranchised 11 million new voters.
The people in this photograph are probably 55-60 years old today.
Frankly, you have more in common with the people in that photograph, now your grandfathers and grandmothers, than you might think . . . . . yet they are likely far more conservative than you are as they see their world today even as they might have agreed with you then.
That appears to be an evolution that doesn't change with generations.
Cowperson