Psychology says the reason boomers who can dish it but can’t take it become more fragile with age rather than less isn’t that they’ve grown weaker — it’s that every decade of unchallenged authority makes the first real challenge feel not like a correction but like a collapse, and the response to collapse is never proportionate to the thing that caused it
· tommy baker
AI Briefing
- Aging boomers' fragile response to challenges attributed to physical weakness rather than psychological change.
- Unchallenged authority in earlier life leads to disproportionate reaction to first real criticism.
- Generational meltdown stems from emotional response to perceived collapse rather than proportionate challenge.
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