No one said they had a monopoly on suffering. There is no reason to say that “the past was worse, so today isn’t that bad” except in an effort to downplay the severity of how bad things in the present are.
It’s a pointless statement that doesn’t say anything.
It doesn’t matter that the past was worse when we know that things could still be better.
Again, you have missed my point, which was in response to a comment essentially saying Gen X had nothing to feel angst over. At no point have I even suggested that life today isn’t awful because, in case you haven’t noticed, I also happen to be alive today.
No one said they had a monopoly on suffering. There is no reason to say that “the past was worse, so today isn’t that bad” except in an effort to downplay the severity of how bad things in the present are.
It’s a pointless statement that doesn’t say anything.
It doesn’t matter that the past was worse when we know that things could still be better.
Again, you have missed my point, which was in response to a comment essentially saying Gen X had nothing to feel angst over. At no point have I even suggested that life today isn’t awful because, in case you haven’t noticed, I also happen to be alive today.