Neither does the generation that enabled them.
Are* older generations stupid or younger generations smarter?
Redmt
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Face it, we had it tough at times but walking back and forth to anywhere gave you exposure and experience. The next generation was treated a bit easier as the quality of life improved. The current generation are so spoiled, with exceptions, that they expect everything handed to them without having to really work for it. We always try to make it easier on our kids no matter how good or bad we had it. My great grandson was born earlier this year. It's no telling how that generation will even survive in a real world that we were born into.
Irrelevant
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To the title, yes, up until about 2000, "we" both globally and 'mericans were getting measurably smarter (which, taking a step back, is an incredibly loaded term).
Since then, there is more data to suggest a decline or at least a plateauing.
But to your point about hiking alone, yes, we're getting softer, just as every generation does, because techology allows you to be more comfortable and thus you are not as "harden" as those that came before you without said technology.
FYI, I can assure you that badassidry is alive and well in the millennial generation.
Since then, there is more data to suggest a decline or at least a plateauing.
But to your point about hiking alone, yes, we're getting softer, just as every generation does, because techology allows you to be more comfortable and thus you are not as "harden" as those that came before you without said technology.
FYI, I can assure you that badassidry is alive and well in the millennial generation.
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Seriously, The Greek scholars thought the world was going to hell in a handbasket, yet here we are. The world has never been entirely static. There has always been change. It may be concerning how fast change is occurring presently.
Most parents who have children, produce a younger generation, similar to them. So, I would think we will prevail for a while. Life has never been perfect, won't be, but people are very adaptable.
I am glad that my time on this earth occurred when it did. My ride has been a good one. I hope that for everyone.
Most parents who have children, produce a younger generation, similar to them. So, I would think we will prevail for a while. Life has never been perfect, won't be, but people are very adaptable.
I am glad that my time on this earth occurred when it did. My ride has been a good one. I hope that for everyone.
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Wildabeest
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There’s a good book on this subject called “Wild at Heart”. Not so much about being alone, but a man’s quest for adventure. Great read. Was recommended to my wife at the time by a marriage counselor. Counselor said it would help her understand me better. So I read it. She didn’t. The rest is obvious.
Wildabeest
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Your dog obviously has better taste in liquor than companions
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Wildabeest
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On the generational stuff, I think parents have gravitated over time to focus more on “providing (for) and protecting” kids vs. teaching them how “assess and accept” risks and their consequences. I intentionally allowed my kids to do things that many other parents (including their mother) would gasp about. I think they are better for it, but also understand that balancing those things has a wide range of what’s culturally acceptable.
As it pertains to the original question, I (unadvisedly) spend most of my time in the woods alone. I’d much prefer to be eaten by a grizzly bear than die of cancer. It’s a conscious decision I make for myself without any judgment of others. But my kids know my plans whenever I go into the woods alone.
As it pertains to the original question, I (unadvisedly) spend most of my time in the woods alone. I’d much prefer to be eaten by a grizzly bear than die of cancer. It’s a conscious decision I make for myself without any judgment of others. But my kids know my plans whenever I go into the woods alone.
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I don’t know. I had to walk to school both ways but only one was uphill. I did have to wrap barbed wire around my bare feet to get traction on the uphill part in the wintertime though…
Redmt
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We just drove 10p nails through our boots and balls of our feet. The down side was leaking boots .I don’t know. I had to walk to school both ways but only one was uphill. I did have to wrap barbed wire around my bare feet to get traction on the uphill part in the wintertime though…
Gellar
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That’s why you put bread sacks on your feet.
Redmt
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Oh you must be talking about that stuff that comes from a store that someone else makes?
Irrelevant
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Like I said, "Getting smarter."
Redmt
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Well crap! Kinda walked right into that one,,,,
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Great. We’re one generation from walking uphill both ways again.
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Back in my day if you wanted to go hunting it required a lot of knowledge and planning. First we had to locate iron deposits, mine the ore (requiring knowledge of logging and carpentry to create timbers for cribbing), smelt it, forge the iron into gun parts, build a rifle from scratch, procure natural nitrogen deposits and mix our own gunpowder, cast our own lead bullets (after creating the iron bullet molds), sew our own hunting clothes and make our own boots or moccasins, be capable in all aspects of animal husbandry to care for a string of pack animals (Including tanning and leather work for the saddles), be proficient in multiple methods of meat preservation including jerking, fermenting, smoking and more.
I may have forgotten to mention a few of the necessary skills and knowledge required by my generation but you guys are all so soft that I didn't want to exhaust you with the mere thought of how much my generation used to be able to accomplish in the average morning before breakfast.
I may have forgotten to mention a few of the necessary skills and knowledge required by my generation but you guys are all so soft that I didn't want to exhaust you with the mere thought of how much my generation used to be able to accomplish in the average morning before breakfast.
geetar
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Is it a stupid question? I've been told there is no such thing. Although I don't entirely believe that. It's certainly a generational thing. I've noticed certain generations like to talk about how much tougher they are than younger generations but they never seem to mention how much tougher past generations were than them. You can fish, hunt, hike, ect solo and be tougher than every millennial on earth and still not hold a candle to the frontiersmen who hunted, fished and trapped the west before it was settled.
geetar
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If I am younger than you I'm sorry I messed up the world for you.
Redmt
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Apologies accepted. Don't do it again.
