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 (DIR) Post #AivHkbUkhHwXyA4wO8 by ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social
       2024-06-14T15:52:39Z
       
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       Not a huge believer in generational differences per se, but have you noticed that up through at least the 80s it's perfectly okay to have a story or biography start with "he abandoned his family to go on a journey" and have the abandoner be the protagonist?
       
 (DIR) Post #AivHw7kj6Wy3CT2mPo by johnhattan@dobbs.town
       2024-06-14T15:54:43Z
       
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       @ZachWeinersmith isn't that the entire plot-driver of the Pokémon cartoon?
       
 (DIR) Post #AivIH9v6F24y0FvTcm by jcorgan@sigmoid.social
       2024-06-14T15:58:30Z
       
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       @ZachWeinersmith Now do cartoons like Bugs Bunny or other Hanna-Barbera creations...
       
 (DIR) Post #AivIXxUtgKG2OjgGRs by StrangeNoises@mastodon.social
       2024-06-14T16:01:34Z
       
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       @ZachWeinersmith it's basically the Buddha's story after all…
       
 (DIR) Post #AivIZACNwZ0u52b2VU by ditol@freiburg.social
       2024-06-14T16:01:42Z
       
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       @ZachWeinersmith What? No.
       
 (DIR) Post #AivIkKnAtjcG7X8BvM by mcchessers@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2024-06-14T16:03:46Z
       
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       @ZachWeinersmith See also: Close Encounters of the Third Kind where the protagonist goes "my family doesn't understand my obsession with aliens, so I'm gonna go live with aliens."
       
 (DIR) Post #AivJ6Y7K2KvBom9E0G by xorn@mastodon.social
       2024-06-14T16:07:48Z
       
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       @ZachWeinersmith I feel like a number of those stories have an ending with a very different viewpointKid: Mom, I have terrible news about dad.Mom: Did he die?Kid: Much worse. He's returned.M: Shit.K: What will we do?M: You run out and tell him how much we've missed him. I'll phone the bank and have Mr. Brown make it look like we're impoverished. Oh, and dear?K: YesM: Mr. Stevens is the *gardener*, not mommy's special friend.K: Of course, mother.
       
 (DIR) Post #AivJHrPedV6iqd7GOu by pretergeek@mstdn.social
       2024-06-14T16:09:50Z
       
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       @ZachWeinersmith Yes, it was like a statement on how important whatever he abandoned his family for was.
       
 (DIR) Post #AivK9JdkPzV9k1CJSy by kentwillard@zirk.us
       2024-06-14T16:19:03Z
       
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       @ZachWeinersmith Gulliver's Travels.
       
 (DIR) Post #AivKXIhjY5EtmzUzcu by kentwillard@zirk.us
       2024-06-14T16:23:50Z
       
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       @ZachWeinersmith Sudden generational differences exist through widespread experienced trauma, like mass war conscription or food scarcity. Those are rare in the US.But societal moral norms constantly change, which is generally good unless it slides back to being more illiberal.
       
 (DIR) Post #AivNIhiYZFH6swcCo4 by wikkit@mastodon.social
       2024-06-14T16:54:50Z
       
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       @ZachWeinersmith This made me curious, it looks like ~12% of the US population served in WWII. So there were generations where everyone knew someone who had been on an unusual journey, and came back different, or didn't come back.
       
 (DIR) Post #AivVSCGt8cPtsxi9Oy by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
       2024-06-14T18:26:09Z
       
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       @ZachWeinersmith Homer never dies.