re: It's sad seeing millennials talk so gracefully about not having kids...

I'm convinced the two world wars put us in a tailspin and we never recovered. I think we lost a lot of connection with our past and theres societal consequences for that. We lost the plot, and I think that can happen to empires after massive conflicts.

I dont think the widespread psychological toll of WW2 on society as a whole gets discussed enough. I think the horrors of WW1 did a number on us, and I think for a lot of people WW2 changed them. Values change. The "greatest generation" got the recipe wrong with their boomer kids. Probably not their fault. They did their best.