It’s not generations, it’s age ;) Younger generations are still idealists. With age, you get betrayed in your ideals. You discover scientific studies weren’t so scientific as they get turned over one by one. It’s something like: Ice caps will still melt, and everything you did for the better, bad luck, they’ll have increased the warming. Same when we tried to eat better against cancer or raised or fists to defend gay people. I don’t want you to believe you’re generation won’t suffer the same fate ;)

> With age, you get betrayed in your ideals.

Some of us old-heads got pushed much farther left as a result of this. I used to be a Democrat, blue and blue. These days I'm much more like, "The Dems will sell me out to make a buck, I gotta go out and actually be the change I want to see in the world."

Young folks who are experiencing disillusion -- don't give in to despair. You can make a meaningful difference in lives. Build communities, engage in mutual aid, whatever.

Both racism against Blacks and homophobia has been significantly reduced when comparing previous decades to today.

Doesn't that show younger generations have a markable improvement in "being good"?

The way the scientific method works has been well understood since it was first formulated, you simply found out much too late.

I have to say, sample size of 2, but as we get older my wife and I get further and further entrenched in our idealism.

I was a center-left socialist as a kid and I'm a full blown anarchist in my 40's so, idk, "people aren't a monolith"?

Why would finding out that some scientific studies weren't done correctly change any person's views when this is always the case and no one has ever said otherwise?

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