(02-17-2023, 11:09 PM)Caldrac Wrote:

(02-17-2023, 06:46 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: I think we're shaped by our entire life experience.  My parents were die-hard liberals.  My father was a lawyer.  He, I, and my older brother had intellectual discussions at every dinner.  It was competitive.  I think what I got from him was a reliance on logic. 

When I was growing up, I was even more liberal than my parents.  But when I was in college, I became much more conservative.  I rebelled against the knee-jerk liberalism on campus. 

I think it's largely true that a person with little money is attracted to socialism, and a person with a lot of money is attracted to free market capitalism.  I think we gravitate to the political values that are most to our own advantage.  I think we adopt values and then spend our lives reinforcing them. 

So most of the time, if you want to know where a person's values came from, you just have to look at their situation in life.

This is true. As I age. So do my tendencies. Especially in regards to taxes, savings and education. I feel more conservative in that regard. Red Forman is a favorite character of mine now and I couldn't relate to him as a kid.

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It's amazing how age and experience change how we view things. At 35 I didn't see things the way I do now at 50. When you're younger, teens and 20s especially, you think you will always be the same person. Unless you have major life happenings, in your 30s you feel a shift but it's not necessarily a huge shift. Just enough to make you think something is slightly different. In your 40s it's picking up and the closer you get to 50 the more things are definitely viewed differently. 

Of course, all of this does depend on how big or small your world is. Me and my husband are as opposite as two people can be when it comes to life experiences. He has always lived in a bubble and I'm the one who has been a lot of places and done a lot if things. He is more close minded than I am but most of it comes from lack of knowledge and experience, not from any kind of prejudice or whatever. He is a lot better than he was 11 years ago when we got married. 

I am realizing too that having more years behind you than ahead of you gives you a different perspective on everything.

Also, we agree on the whole government and political system situation. I haven't trusted them in quite a long time. We are the modern day Rome and when we fall it's going to be ugly. I hope I'm done and dusted by the time it happens. 

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(02-17-2023, 08:32 PM)Jags Wrote: Sorry, didn’t read the entire OP.  Going out on a limb here and saying John never got his but beat by his parents.

Maybe he did and that's why he's so far in the other ditch.

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