It's a bizarre feeling that there are full grown adults who were not alive when 9/11 happened. I remember that day so vividly. 💔
But you can't "never forget" something when you weren't even born yet when it happened. It's hard/impossible to grasp the enormity of hate. I will never forget it, certainly.
I'm sure previous generations have experienced this same phenomenon—new generations not able to grasp what previous events were like.
History, kids. It's important.
@janallmac and yet there are some things that are transmitted so viscerally, either through media or more frequently orally, that make the hate stick. For me, growing up with a Hungarian Holocaust survivor, I have an enormous amount of hate for Nazis, Soviet-era Communists, and their fascist Hungarian collaborators.
Yes, I understand, and I don't blame you. 💜 Truly I don't. I think that's what's referred to as generational trauma (?) forgive me, not sure. I think generational trauma takes generations to heal, more than one human lifetime. Overcoming that kind of trauma is superhuman. I don't know about you, but I'm not superhuman!
In the show Ghosts, the characters have been dead for centuries. Maybe that's all that really kills hate. Death.
@janallmac hate is taught and transmitted. Generational hate is frequently subconscious and the longer it's been around, the more difficult it is to find the original reasons.