We, the Highly Sensitive People, often find ourselves living in a magical yet misunderstood world. While our inner lives may seem enchanted, a closer look at our daily experiences often reveals a more complex reality.
Feeling misunderstood in my natural state, I often adopt a people-pleasing persona when interacting with others. This creates a sense of disconnection, leading to compatibility issues with those around me over time. After a brief interaction, our initial connections fade, leaving me wondering what went wrong. Here’s my perspective on generations of people, including myself within the clan.
Let’s focus on the Boomer generation, as they are my lifelong peers. Despite being a Cusper between Gen X and the next, I connect deeply with them. The Boomers experienced significant changes during their youth, from scientific and technological advancements to post-war recovery. Emerging into a world of greater automation and comfort, they carried forward a new lifestyle, which had unforeseen psychological impacts on their children and society. From all the exposure and beliefs that came with this grand lifestyle; i.e., a new type of scientific and technological doctrine to make life much easier, other aspects of their life may have been overlooked, thereby creating psychological byproducts that spilled onto their children, and society as a whole from hidden costs involved.
Today’s goal is to reach the younger generations through the Boomers by showing them the nature of Less at work. You guys still hold considerable influence, and I need your help as universal translators to get messages across. For instance, we must face the simple truth: accountability is woven into the fabric of the Universe. By the end of this website, I hope to instil in everyone a sense of responsibility that cannot be ignored, even in the face of mortality.
The younger generations are poised to make drastic changes if we don’t act. They’ll turn to science and technology for solutions, but if those fail, they might resort to extreme measures and blow up the world. Together, we can guide them with honesty, avoiding sensationalism, and addressing the root causes of today’s issues. Not sugarcoat it, or give them a limited version of things to keep the dream alive. For example, how do you think so few of us live with great comforts while so many others live in the slums around the world? Do you guys think it was sheer luck?
Help me give it to them straight, the millennials and everyone after, so we can shift life towards a more wholesome trajectory and away from that world of unhealthy polarisation and crazy emotional-driven behaviour that leads to an actual nightmare. Our ancestors fought wars and colonised many parts of the world for our freedoms and comforts today, so let’s not make it all for nothing, as controversial as it may sound.
We must acknowledge that the Boomers sought comfort and stability post-war, which is why us younger generations turned out the way we did. They wanted a big loving family with a picket fence to drown out all the worries of yesterday’s problems while giving us the things that they never had growing up. Besides, who wouldn’t want this for their community and families when it is there for the taking? However, with all that new science and technology from World War II now housed under one new roof, aka the First World Roof, it was only a matter of time before a new batch of problems would hit later down the track from such a quantum leap.
Who would have thought that by ‘letting the good times roll…’ it would eventually get this out of hand in terms of consumerism, competition, inequality, and the latest evolution of artificial intelligence affecting the planet today? I guess that’s why they called the first wave from this new powerhouse ‘the Boomers’ because of the rippling effect they would have on the following generations. My personal opinion is we carried over all the bad karma from the Nazi scientists and engineers who got a new lease on life by offering up their talents through Operation Paperclip. And now, the Universe is balancing or dispersing all those energies through extreme polarisation.
Anyway… That’s my take on why the world around me is the way it is. The world is fixated on Science & Technology to make things better, which makes sense. However, we also have an internal Science & Technology system that we call a Psychological System, and it has not been kept on par due to our outward fixation. Rather, it has stayed on a level where causation is only seen and dealt with superficially (big pharma, alcoholism, etc.), eventually causing more problems to spring up down the road. Therefore, it’s crucial to balance our external focus on science and technology with an internal focus on psychological well-being.