And no generation in American history has been as selfish as the boomers.
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The idea that violent and traumatic environments lead to strong people making good choices always seemed pretty stupid to me.
Because during bad times the ones that make bad decisions don't survive or at very least are removed from positions of power.
Bad times by themselves do not create good decision makers.
The ones best equipped to get in positions of power during "bad times" are bad people willing to put their ambitions above basic human decency.
Why is this so hard to understand?
It's more common for bad leaders to make the bad decisions that cause the bad times, and then either be deposed by violence or cling to power with violence, making everything worse. See Stalin, Mao, and also the entire history of sub-Saharan Africa after colonialism.
I'm certainly not a fan of American electoral democracy, but one can say that at least it's mostly peaceful and allows in theory the people to make a choice between qualified and vetted candidates. In "hard times" the mechanisms created by civil society to select competent leaders tend to break down. So rather than removing bad leaders from power in hard times, it becomes even harder to remove such leaders, and even harder to determine whether a leader is good or bad until after he's in charge of the army's salary.
Yeah it just creates transgenerational trauma.