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They always love their grandkids but never their kids 🥀
Here in USA, where I was born and raised, I find since the 1990's that grandparents absolutely despise their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. They act all nice in person, but when it comes to climate change, housing prices, they do everything they possibly can to wreck the future of future generations of their family. I've seen this in many places I have lived in USA: Ohio, Indiana, Floridian, Texas, Arizona.
I moved into an RV full time in 1999 (working from home), I was only age 30, and I spent a lot of time around these retired grandparents who go on and on about how much they love their grandchildren. But my god, do they wish Hell on earth with their attitudes towards polluting the water and "drill baby drill" for oil, spreading plastics, food safety and baby food supply, politicians and leaders they want these grandchildren to live under, pro-Russian takeover of the world, etc.
Don't fall for their whole "I have compassion and love for my children's children" lines, a lot of them have have anti-compassion anti-empathy values of Elon Musk,
The White House media messaging / Elon Musk Twitter messaging in year 2024 and year 2025 is constant broadcast of egoism / egomania values. Rupert Murdoch media platforms broadcasting wealth televangelism, worship of wealth lords / land lords / etc. It's self-destructive.
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality. Life has its beginning and its maturity comes into being when an individual rises above self to something greater. Few individuals learn this, and so they go through life merely existing and never living. Now you see signs all along in your everyday life with individuals who are the victims of self-centeredness. They are the people who live an eternal “I.” They do not have the capacity to project the “I” into the “Thou.” They do not have the mental equipment for an eternal, dangerous and sometimes costly altruism. They live a life of perpetual egotism. And they are the victims all around of the egocentric predicament.... - August 11, 1957
That's one of the things so enchanting around Buddhist and Taoist teachings, "There is no 'I." People attached to their false egos can't begin to fathom this and will write volumes explaining how the "I" is the only thing that matters.