My mother waw born in the 1930's . Her sister got Polio and the family home was

[demtenjeep]

quarantined . She used to tell us about the shame the family felt with the big signs on their house. They couldn't go to school, there was no TV, they couldn't afford a radio-hell, they used bed sheets for window glass. They were dirt poor.



But they lived through it and my aunt lived a good life

I guess my point is-they followed the rules and only my aunt was sick.


Why is it so fucking hard for people today with much more modern convenience to do the right thing?

[Ohiogal]

1. You pose an excellent question

[BigmanPigman]

2. The general attitude 100 years ago was a lot different than it is now.

They struggled though the Great Depression and then WW2. Their attitude is long gone but much needed.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/the_greatest_generation.asp

[SheltieLover]

3. K&R!

It is rather ridiculous, isn't it?

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Because it's become all about ME! I wrote a post several

years ago when people were yelling and pulling out their hair that Joe Biden had hugged someone about how we have lost all sense of caring about others. We have a society built on instant gratification and contact with real people is going extinct. Everyone in their own little online world.
All makes self greed and self importance take priority over national or community action.

[demtenjeep]

5. very true

we are soft

[demtenjeep]

6. very true

we are soft

[hatrack]

7. Because there are 10s of millions of Americans who are spoiled fucking children

I'm not minimizing the economic chaos, which is freaking horrible and is exacting real pain from millions who have limited to no options.

I'm just saying that there are plenty of people who "want what they want when they want it" and frankly, nothing else matters to these overgrown children.

Case in point - Lansing, Michigan.

[CaptainTruth]

11. +1 Yep, spoiled brats.

[Iterate]

17. The phrase "a nation of spoiled children" has been running through my head for some time now.

I don't use it publicly because people always seen to think I'm talking specifically about the people they personally don't like. That in itself is the sign of a personal universe in a very small mind.

But it is, as you say, that sense of entitled want, the tantrum in the grocery aisle, the road rage over "my lane" or "my road". Any minor inconvenience is a world-shattering burden. Change a light bulb? Never. Wear a mouth cover? No, it's time to put on the GI Joe gear.

That lot is nowhere near suddenly embracing responsible citizenship. No wonder they voted a TV pitchman.

[pansypoo53219]

8. my grandpa had like 8 siblings + one of his younger sisters got something + she was taken to a

sanitorium.

[Demobrat]

12. Probably tuberculosis

My grandfather had it. He was put into the sanitorium where my grandmother worked. She saved his life so he married her.

[deurbano]

14. My grandmother died of TB in a sanatorium. My mom was sent to a preventorium (she had a spot on her

lung or something) to isolate her with other at risk kids... and also fatten them up and give them a lot of fresh air and exercise.

[JI7]

9. I don't think people realize how hard life was for people in the old days

I mean even just regular average people . And when things like you mention with the Polio happen to a family things are even tougher.

Even now things would have been much different if this had happened in the 80s or 90s when living standards were closer to now than the days you mention.

[CaptainTruth]

10. I think too many people today feel too entitled. They never had to really work & suffer...

...& they expect everything to go "their way."

[tblue37]

13. All too often those who have much demand more. nt

[demtenjeep]

15. yes, today's kids would be shocked to see what those before us dealt with

how hard they had to work as children to make the entire house livable.


being forced to fight in wars they may have not even known about.

My grandma (Mom's family) lost two in WW II A 3rd son was in Japan at the same time. He came home and died early of cancer. Her 4th brother was overseas and Grandmom wrote to her congressman to get him home as she had lost 2 others in war.

My mom got married when she was 15 to actually live in a home with a bathroom. My dad was drafted in 52 and they moved to West Point...Mom had our first brother early because of something that happened in a grocery store but that saved my father from serving over seas during the Korean Conflict. He instead trained for those to go to Korea.

Her sister grew up and lived a good life with a funny arm and died of lung cancer. seems they never knew that the polio fucked up her lung as well.

The only one alive out of all of them is the most backwards ignorant woman who can't cook, clean house, or drive.
she was the baby and married a small time preacher and is the mother of a weird set of firearms loving militia bullshit kansas.

[orleans]

16. in answer to your question

selfish, self centered, ignorant assholes

and i would also say republicans