Lol, well, if we go by that standard, then we can all ride the coat tails of the soldiers of every generation who were drafted to fight someone else’s war. My country, per capita, were the country to lose the most men in Afghanistan. I have friends who went to Afghanistan and their experiences were varied.

But my point still stands: the bad in every generation came in intervals and affected groups differently. A lot of boomers had nothing to do with Vietnam just like a lot of Gen X and millennials had nothing to do with Iraq and Afghanistan.

But we all had slower lives and we did get to be relatively protected in childhood from the worst of the news out there.

In this day and age, youths and children are bombarded woth the most heinous shit 24/7 and it is everything, everywhere, all at once.

None of the prior generations have had back to back to back terrible world events happening like the youths of today have. We all live through it, but most of us are old enough and hardened enough by life that we deal with it.

I don’t think it is a coincidence that anxiety among children and youths today has sky rocketed. And it isn’t just news, it is also the negative effects of social media and that whole psychosis and how it distorts and perverts identity and self love nowadays.

There is no contest. It is not remotely anything our generations had to deal with.

And yeah, we can make a ton of whataboutisms where we pick out minority groups who went to war or were brought up in war torn countries. That has happened and will happen always.

But none of us old facts had the perversion of current day internet to deal with on top of intervals of this and that crisis and none of us had to deal with all our generations’ crises all at the same time over the span of a few years. That is what I’m saying. We simply cannot imagine what it is like for the young ones today because their world is so far removed from the world we grew up in.

I am a millennial, neither an old or a young millennial, but an in the middle one. I grew up in a world without internet and had myself introduced to the world wide web in my teens. My childhood and teen hood is still much closer to that of a boomer’s childhood and teen hood than it is the kids and teens today. I cannot comprehend what childhood even looks like or feels like for kids today. All I know is that anxiety and body image issues and thoughts of world problems have sprung from the mouths of kindergarteners and that is not something I have seen to this extent ever before.