"**Why, in America: where the roads are already paved, the crops are already sewn, the schools are already built and the factories are already tooled... why does it get harder and harder and harder for every subsequent American generation?**"
I came up with this at 15, well before any noticing or awakening was happening in my life. I could *"feel"* the america I was growing up in.
To this day, not one single person has been able to answer this question intelligently or honestly. It stumps 100% of the people I ask it to, whether in heated argument or casual conversation.
Use and enjoy.
It's not that life should be getting easier every year
It isn't supposed to be that way
It never was that way
It can't be that way
We (as humanity) live in a cycle. Good times produce bad men, bad men produce bad times, bad times produce good men, produce good times, etc...
The trick is to make the cycle spiral upwards, which, throughout history, has never really been achieved. Not even by us. Some empires have managed to do it for a good long period of time, but never permanently.
What happened with the Boomer generation is the US won the world. For the first time, there was pretty much 1 superpower on planet earth, and what's more, we didn't have to really fight that hard to get that status. Compared to the rest of the (civilized) world, we lost only a few troops.
Since it was our first time being a superpower, really, the first superpower EVER, (and no, the USSR was never a superpower like America was) we didn't know what we were doing.
The Boomers thought that they could bring the rest of the world up to American standards. In order to "help" they basically sold America out. Now we, Gen-X and later, have to pay the piper.
We CAN restore what the Boomers had, and we can probably multiply on top of it, but it is going to require lots of good men, and unfortunately, there probably isn't enough out there to help the entire world. In fact, a good portion of our population has to die off, possibly prematurely.
So, if you want life to get better, YOU have to make it so. Stop expecting someone to save you.
Roadmap for America V2: (1) We help no one. If you can't bootstrap to our status, too bad. (2) We take everything we want, and maybe we pay for it. But we are not going to share our tech or resourced with anyone. Bootstrap first, then we might consider it. (3) Borders closed, sorry not sorry. (4) DEPORT DEPORT DEPORT (5) Niggers will have to live on reservations, preferably in Africa. We will build a monument or something to say "Sorry for enslaving your people and giving you the highest standard of living that has ever existed on earth, consider this a repayment of all the 'hard work' you never did for us. By the way, we'll never make this mistake again!"
Some people say "weak men", but I say "bad men", because it is possible to be good and strong in good times. It just takes a little discipline.