Why does the older generation resent the younger one?

It's so typical to hear they hate that they had to do a thing in their day and don't want their own children to have the freedom not to do those things now that they're no longer necessary.
Had a father complaining about his daughter being vegetarian, his response "Well I had to so she should have to as well". You didn't like being controlled by your parents so you choose to inflict the same control over your own. You'd think it would be the last thing any empathetic parent would do to their child.

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Spectrum

This has been true since the the oldest of times, every generation resents the next once they've grown old enough to realise how to be a socially intergrated person but then forget who they were before that, thus they lose perspective and see the next as these sort of untamed and aggressive/ignorant people forgetting where they started in the first place.

Spectrum

and having said that who's bloody teaching them? we shouldn't complain if we don't even make an attempt to raise them as a community or take responsibility as people. They're lost people and all they get is negative judgement which creates resentment.

StokedFox · 36-40, F

@Spectrum this

JovialPlutonian · 36-40, M

@Spectrum it's hardly negative judgement, it's damaging

JovialPlutonian · 36-40, M

@Spectrum why when it's expressed that what you're doing is damaging can it not be taken merely as something that is wished that you stop doing?

Spectrum

@JovialPlutonian To the younger person? I think some people don't learn right away or it isn't put in a constructive way. Whenever i had strangers tell me off for something it was the ones that explained it to me and made me feel silly that actually stuck rather than someone older than me cursing at me.

eg. When i used to smoke on the way to school i'd have people in their 40s fake coughing at me and i just looked at them like passive aggressive idiots, then one day a sub teacher walked by and said:

"Hey, you know you're one of the older ones now and there are kids walking to school around here, they're going to look at you and do what you do and it's not really fair to kids is it?". It just clicked after that as i'd never thought of it that way and i was like "Yeah no you're right actually" and i didn't smoke in front of kids after that. There just isn't that community sense of guidance.