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[-] deadbeef79000 90 points 3 months ago

Those people will eventually grow old and die while their children grow up to be slightly less conservative (on average).

[-] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 88 points 3 months ago

Progress is coming. One funeral at the time.

[-] lemmyman@lemmy.world 59 points 3 months ago

That's what I thought 20 years ago but today I am not so sure :(

[-] BabyVi@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

For real, the older I get the more sure I am this is part of an endless struggle.

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 10 points 3 months ago

I like to think we're 2 steps forward and 1 step back kind of species

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 0 points 3 months ago

I like to think we're 2 steps forward and 1 step back kind of species

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 months ago

Right wing propaganda is a helluva drug.

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

not sure whi said this

Society doesn't change when new ideas are brought up, Society changes when old people die.

It was fucking Max Plank!!!

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it ...

Close enough

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago

At what age do people catch conservatism? Is there a vaccine?

[-] searabbit@piefed.social 6 points 3 months ago

Generally the age when they start to feel overwhelming fear of change and the unfamiliar. Exposure therapy is probably the best cure.

[-] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Different for each person. Very early if indoctrinated, like religion or peer culture. Some catch it when they transition to working life or overall success and catch the I got mine disease. I'd say it grows fairly early, teens at the latest, and solidifies early 20s. The I got mine crowd can happen late, like 30-40.

[-] Rothe@piefed.social 10 points 3 months ago

That is unfortunately not how anything works. These people were young as well once, and that didn't stop them from becoming conservative.

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