It's a thrill to find you asking the same question (and articulating it far far better than I) that I've been wondering about. I grew up with parents and a community entrenched in thinking that (a) there's nothing new under the sun, and (b) that history is a pendulum and that each position is an echo of the last oscillation. So the anger and intensity we feel today existed before; that each generation has its allotment of crises it must deal with. Pretty fatalistic stuff.
But to bring this to the more intimate level of emotion and whether the nature-nurture debate could be applied here is and wonderful discussion here. Thank you!
It's a thrill to find you asking the same question (and articulating it far far better than I) that I've been wondering about. I grew up with parents and a community entrenched in thinking that (a) there's nothing new under the sun, and (b) that history is a pendulum and that each position is an echo of the last oscillation. So the anger and intensity we feel today existed before; that each generation has its allotment of crises it must deal with. Pretty fatalistic stuff.
But to bring this to the more intimate level of emotion and whether the nature-nurture debate could be applied here is and wonderful discussion here. Thank you!