It is the goal of each generation to solve the challenges of their day, and in so doing make it so the next generation doesn’t face those challenges, but instead can focus on new or more advanced challenges. That is how progress works. We can’t colonize Mars if we are still trying to figure out how to get to another continent in less than a day. And there in lie the three fundamental reasons older folks often get upset about younger folks.
The first is simply envy. It’s neat to have lived to see things like cats or computers or the internet or aircraft go from toys for the rich or only affordable by governments to being everyday things- but it’s also hard not to feel some resentment or sour grapes that when you were 20,30, etc. and could have used that technology you didn’t have it but still had to get things done. It’s also hard for most people to see the wold change so much and to have to say goodbye to the world you knew and loved. Isn’t that a thing in most science fiction? From Star Trek to Star Wars, from the year “2050” to thousands of years in the future- the future in sci fi is almost always one that is very close to our own except with cool toys isn’t it? People tend to speak like us, listen to the same music or share largely the same styles and tastes of music as what we would like-
look at the evolution of music from the early 1900’s to 1950’s or 1960’s into the 2000’s- look at music hundreds of years ago. Look at language- slang, etc.
It’s done so you the viewer don’t feel completely lost, alienated. But in real life when time passes- that isn’t something you get. Things change and you have to deal with it or get left behind.
That leads us to the other major factors- culture. Inevitably the challenges we face and the methods and tools we have to deal with them help
Shape our collective culture and individual outlooks. So the consequence of progress are changes in culture which follow the changes to society brought on through progress. So much like how our science fiction, fantasy, etc. still mimic our world and times so we can follow along. In the original star trek ideas like interracial dating or homosexuality were treated with the same overall values as the 1960’s- yet it is a supposedly advanced and enlightened future that by 2020 standards would be considered steps backwards in many aspects of social progress.
Shape our collective culture and individual outlooks. So the consequence of progress are changes in culture which follow the changes to society brought on through progress. So much like how our science fiction, fantasy, etc. still mimic our world and times so we can follow along. In the original star trek ideas like interracial dating or homosexuality were treated with the same overall values as the 1960’s- yet it is a supposedly advanced and enlightened future that by 2020 standards would be considered steps backwards in many aspects of social progress.