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    DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES-THE ESTRANGEMENT EPIDEMIC

    This is the closest thing I could find to statistics. Look at the dynamics going on here. Some of the reasons are fairly perennial (like divorce) but about half of these are stress-related (like substance abuse) or directly finance-related. Apparently the children just want to take the money at the end. Don't do that. I wish someone would investigate the "generational" pattern though since it seems to me in most cases it's just one person who tries to initiate estrangement from their parents as a child then goes on to try to initiate it from their children as an adult which is technically a pattern spanning three generations but is still just one person causing all the estrangements.

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    I tried to find another metric to calculate estrangement. According to this article, about 5% of Baby Boomers have chosen not to have children, and now about 25% are not going to be supported by their children in old age. The mortality rate for people under 30 who didn't basically die right after being born (dead babies are not likely to be counted as someone who once had a child) seems to be nearly zero so the estrangement rate for Baby Boomers' kids appears to be about 20% or 1 in 5. I think that's the point where it'd be easy to actually do something but then if you don't all the old farts who are sitting on piles of money gained solely from gaming a system are going to rot alive anyways.

    Single & Childless: Many Baby Boomers Must Prepare to Age Alone

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    The Hidden Billionaires

    Read this and the Times article (How Baby Boomers Broke America) if you want a full picture of elites instead of blaming "the Illuminati" or "bankers" or whatever. You can find who the individual elites are fairly easily and I think track any of their actions that directly affect you and people you care about too. Aside from the billionaires there are much less wealthy people collaborating because they benefit too right down to apparently 20% of the parents of Gen X/Y/Z who are going to suffer nightmarishly from being at the bottom of a strange pyramid scheme unless they snap out of it.

    I think an interesting conclusion can be drawn about the people at the top of the pyramid now though: they haven't grown up or matured whatsoever in any sense of the word except being biological adults, since it just looks like people get less and less mature as you go up the pyramid and Bezos exposes his pecker I mean Pecker. I don't think that's a universal trait of elites either since I can't imagine Nazis being manchild brats since the word Nazi means disciplinarian in certain non-PC American dialects. So get some bildung and if you hate your parents ask them about/try to figure out their finances.

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    Ben & Jerry's Launches New Resistance-Themed Ice Cream Pints

    Here's everything that annoys me in culture. Who would buy pecan ice cream? I don't think I've ever even had the misfortune of having had pecan ice cream and I still don't like pecan ice cream. But since it's not pecan ice cream but Pecan Resist!™ people buy pecan ice cream. If it were just Ben & Jerry's that'd just be them and who'd care? But now everything is pecan ice cream that's been relabeled Pecan Resist!™ so people will buy it.

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    This is the one conspiracy site I've seen that just makes my head ache without entertaining me much at all. I hope someone can inform this lady that orgone isn't the devices, it's the energy, Wilhelm Reich believed it to be released best during orgasms, and by the way, he did a lot to start the sexual revolution that she thinks is Satanic. This person is just so paranoid she fabricates things that don't even make internal sense and leaves lots of small hippie orgone objects everywhere as some sort of weapon.

    http://www.thewatcherfiles.com/why.htm

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    For those who like difficult spiritual texts:

    The Gospel of Truth
    The decisive thing is not the reality of the object, but the reality of the subjective factor, i.e. the primordial images, which in their totality represent a psychic mirror-world. It is a mirror, however, with the peculiar capacity of representing the present contents of consciousness not in their known and customary form but in a certain sense sub specie aeternitatis, somewhat as a million-year old consciousness might see them.

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    The Perils of Peter Pan Syndrome

    I can't believe I'm posting an article from Fox News.

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    Quote Originally Posted by coeruleum View Post
    The Perils of Peter Pan Syndrome

    I can't believe I'm posting an article from Fox News.
    There is a really good book about this: The Problem of the Puer Aeternus.

    I think a lot of people in this forum could benefit from reading it. It really illuminated some things for me personally.
    The decisive thing is not the reality of the object, but the reality of the subjective factor, i.e. the primordial images, which in their totality represent a psychic mirror-world. It is a mirror, however, with the peculiar capacity of representing the present contents of consciousness not in their known and customary form but in a certain sense sub specie aeternitatis, somewhat as a million-year old consciousness might see them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tallmo View Post
    There is a really good book about this: The Problem of the Puer Aeternus.

    I think a lot of people in this forum could benefit from reading it. It really illuminated some things for me personally.
    According to the review, it just tells people to get a job. That doesn't fix the problem at all, since most jobs are either burger flipping or middle management, and most people who take them still dress like children, talk like children, listen to nothing but adolescent music, read nothing but comic books, watch nothing but cartoons, play a lot of video games, buy toys, and talk about "what they want to be" even though they're literally already something (just not what they waaaaaaant.) And OK, probably no one does all of that, and I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with some things crossing over from youth culture to adult culture since innovation is generally good, the problem is when there simply isn't a such thing as adult culture to begin with. Especially when it gets to the point that parents and children behave basically identically and parents seem to expect their children to parent them when they're old and the children work. I just think: guys, you realize there's no real economic return there, just a lack of mature independence, right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by coeruleum View Post
    According to the review, it just tells people to get a job. That doesn't fix the problem at all, since most jobs are either burger flipping or middle management, and most people who take them still dress like children, talk like children, listen to nothing but adolescent music, read nothing but comic books, watch nothing but cartoons, play a lot of video games, buy toys, and talk about "what they want to be" even though they're literally already something (just not what they waaaaaaant.) And OK, probably no one does all of that, and I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with some things crossing over from youth culture to adult culture since innovation is generally good, the problem is when there simply isn't a such thing as adult culture to begin with. Especially when it gets to the point that parents and children behave basically identically and parents seem to expect their children to parent them when they're old and the children work. I just think: guys, you realize there's no real economic return there, just a lack of mature independence, right?
    No it doesn't just tell people to get a job, even though work can be a solution. It discusses the problem from a very psychological / introverted perspective. I recommend this book because von Franz seems to truly understand and put into words the mentality of a man-child. I felt that reading her analysis was like fresh air. It's not exactly an easy book though.
    The decisive thing is not the reality of the object, but the reality of the subjective factor, i.e. the primordial images, which in their totality represent a psychic mirror-world. It is a mirror, however, with the peculiar capacity of representing the present contents of consciousness not in their known and customary form but in a certain sense sub specie aeternitatis, somewhat as a million-year old consciousness might see them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tallmo View Post
    No it doesn't just tell people to get a job, even though work can be a solution. It discusses the problem from a very psychological / introverted perspective. I recommend this book because von Franz seems to truly understand and put into words the mentality of a man-child. I felt that reading her analysis was like fresh air. It's not exactly an easy book though.
    Anyways, when you say a lot of people on the forum could benefit, do you mean that a lot of people seem like overgrown children to you in people's conversations, in Finland, or both (or neither?)

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    ^It means they get their information from Fox News.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adam Strange View Post
    ^It means they get their information from Fox News.
    Unfortunately, most people to the left of Fox News watchers aren't literate enough either, but at least they're literate enough to pass the test which apparently means something even if it shouldn't.

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    Bad Romance

    TIL why people watch cat videos all the time instead of communicating with each other (nevermind romantic relationships): capitalism. Yay.

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