Not to take away from your post, it just got me thinking about something.
This type of selfishness probably comes from the decades upon decades of both obvious and subtle messaging around scarcity of pretty much everything. Just the advertising phrase “ACT NOW! before it’s gone.” was and is used all the time. We have been conditioned to believe that everything is limited and at the same time we need to have everything. So when your entire life you’ve been inundated with messages of not-enough I can see why there is a fear of losing it all.
I think you’re right that this got cranked to 11 during their lives, but the leaded gasoline might have something to do with this too. Through that lens, much boomer behaviour can be described. Particularly considering that boomer stereotypes are transnational
Not to take away from your post, it just got me thinking about something.
This type of selfishness probably comes from the decades upon decades of both obvious and subtle messaging around scarcity of pretty much everything. Just the advertising phrase “ACT NOW! before it’s gone.” was and is used all the time. We have been conditioned to believe that everything is limited and at the same time we need to have everything. So when your entire life you’ve been inundated with messages of not-enough I can see why there is a fear of losing it all.
I think you’re right that this got cranked to 11 during their lives, but the leaded gasoline might have something to do with this too. Through that lens, much boomer behaviour can be described. Particularly considering that boomer stereotypes are transnational