The world wars created unfathomable amounts of trauma that resulted in mental illness which we still see today, the kind that travels down family lines. Trauma rarely stops with the initial victim. We don't talk enough about that, let alone provide compensation for it.
The architects of war are solely responsible for breaking the minds of young people, who in turn traumatize their offspring and partners for generations into the future. We still feel the reverberations in the collective psyche to this day.
For example, "dog eat dog" culture is not hardwired, it's the philosophy of a father who spent his youth on the battlefield scared out of his brain, and developing strategies and walls of dissociation to cope with the horrors he was not just witnessing, but partaking in.
Dog-eat-dog makes sense in the horrors of war but makes no sense at home. In fact, it's incredibly abusive to parent your children that way. Bashing your children to make them obey causes trauma. Telling kids they gotta man up because the world is out to get them causes trauma.
People dismiss criticisms of bad parenting practices because "I turned out okay." You did not turn out okay. We are not okay. The world is not okay. Something fundamental has to change. Start with you.
