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Gen X carry the torch, then our generation, then Gen Z.
Each grown under the system of selfishness, the rest are discarded.
Do not believe that we are special.
You are not factoring in the world wars.
The boomers were raised by people with ptsd who were raised by people with ptsd.
Has nothing to do with being special and everything to do with millennials being the first generation not raised by collectively traumatized parents.