The Generation That Wasn't Allowed to Cry, Psychology of Baby Boomers

[no_hypocrisy]

Why is the Baby Boomer generation so "hard"? Why do they value stoicism over vulnerability? To understand the psychology of Baby Boomers, we must look beyond the economic prosperity of the Golden Age and look into the silent trauma of their upbringing.

In this psychological deep dive, we analyze the environment that shaped the Boomer mind: from the emotionally distant parenting of the post-WWII era and the dangerous freedom of 1950s playgrounds to the existential dread of the Cold War and the shattering assassinations of the 1960s. This video is not a judgment, but an attempt to bridge the gap between generations by uncovering the hidden scars of the past.

We explore how "Duck and Cover" drills, the assassination of JFK, and the chaos of 1968 created a generation that learned to hide their fear behind a wall of silence. Whether you are a Boomer looking to understand your own past, or a Millennial/Gen Z trying to understand your parents, this video essay reveals the cost of resilience.

[SheltieLover]

1. Is this a book?

[mwmisses4289]

2. Video done with AI.

Watched a few seconds, then stopped, it has that awful ai in the past video thing of making it look like an old, degraded movie - lots of dots and lines- that make it unwatchable.

[SheltieLover]

4. Ty. I'll pass on it. I don't do ai slop either.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Don't think so, but it should.

Seems to check off a lot of boxes in my life.

[SheltieLover]

5. Sorry to hear it's ai slop.

Sounds like a great concept for a book.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. I can't argue against many of the premises.

It explains the narcissism of both parents. The unreasoning fear and paranoia of my father. The undue strict code of behavior. The "dangerous" playground equipment. The hypocrisy of my father being chill with me wandering around Europe alone with jeans and a backpack for 3+ months, but when I was visiting friends in another state (less than two months after I returned from Europe) and I didn't call to say that I would be "home" 12 hours later than I expected, I got royally reamed out (at age 22-1/2).

Just b/c it's AI, that doesn't discount fragments of Truth.

[SheltieLover]

12. Not discounting "fragments of truth," I don't do AI at all.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. Understood and respected, my friend.

[SheltieLover]

14. Thx

[OC375]

6. Boomer Millennials Z ?

Where’s X again?

[bucolic_frolic]

7. And the Great Depression and WWII generation didn't hide their fear in silence?

Boomers had a growing economy and rock 'n roll. I don't think this video has it rightly analyzed.

[quaint]

11. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

We had it really bad and we had it really good.
So did my parents.
So do my grandkids.

Geez.

[Goonch]

8. ;-{)

[Srkdqltr]

10. Baby boomers were brought up by people who came up through the Depression and WW2.

Who were brought up by people who came up through immigration and WW1, and the roaring 20s. And so it goes back through history.
Some brought up filthy rich, some dirt poor. Most between.

[Redleg]

15. Another generational generalization

This does get tiresome. Please don't burden me with the sins or attributes of some of those in my generation.

[highplainsdem]

17. It's a very common type of AI slop now, unfortunately. See my other reply here.

[highplainsdem]

16. Please delete this AI slop, which is likely from a foreign content farm. That channel was set up late

last month and already has 14 of these roughly half-hour videos that are pure clickbait. If anyone involved in making these videos had any expertise at all in psychology, sociology or history, you'd see those credits given.

There are lots of worthwhile videos and books from real people with real credentials. Whoever is making the videos at that channel is just a scammer, or group of scammers, using AI. Which in itself is a very unethical thing to do, since those generative AI tools are trained on stolen intellectual property.

Here's a link to a thread I posted last month on these sorts of videos:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220865373

What we are witnessing with channels like Senior Secrets is the work of content farms, likely based in Vietnam. Sitting in front of dozens of computers are people with no formal training in science or medicine who write prompts for generative AI platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini. The AI creates scripts, animations, thumbnails, voiceover narration, fake scientific papers; and these made-up elements are mashed together in a video that gets uploaded to YouTube.

If you read the article I linked to there, you'll see more on how these clickbait videos from content farms try to hide their origin.

The YouTube channel where you got that video didn't even go to that much effort. It just throws out bland generalities that some people might relate to.

But there's no expertise behind it. There may be no personal experience behind it. It's just AI-generated clickbait.

Again, you can find lots of real videos and books from real experts. Though unfortunately, thanks to AI and how easy it is to generate slop, there are lots of garbage AI-generated books flooding platforms like Kindle, offering fake expertise, from AI users who in some cases are uploading multiple books a day.

Your safest bet, in addition to looking for real credits for real people and organizations, is to look for videos and books more than a few years old, so they won't have used AI to create fakes like this.

[SheltieLover]

18. And any ai in mental health can be dangerous, as we have seen

[highplainsdem]

19. Good point, Sheltie! Thanks for mentioning it. Chatbots can be especially dangerous, but scripts from

bots offering advice and fake expertise, like whatever bots were used to write the scripts on that channel, can also be risky.

[SheltieLover]

20. Yes, you're right!

Ty!

[OldBaldy1701E]

21. "...the chaos of 1968 created a generation that learned to hide their fear behind a wall of silence."

My family was the opposite of that. In the sixties, I had two uncles who were in the thick of it. They often drove to protests and sometimes came home with an injury or two. My stodgy, conservative grandmother was all for it, by the way. She was a great person and a proper conservative who understood that such beliefs applied to politics, not to social issues. She was livid at what had been going on, mainly because she was the head of the Social Services department in that county. She saw the biases every single day.

(My little five year old ass wanted to go with them a few times. I remember being very confused as to why they would not let me, as they let me go with them to the store all the time!)

Yeah, a 'wall of silence' was not an issue in my youth. Heh.

Now... showing love? That is another story altogether. And, a very depressing one.