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The concept of the “generation gap” is a modern invention that has no solid basis in pre-20th century western culture, let alone any other culture.
Differences exist between parents and their children, but the “gap” is no more than a means to encourage social disunity.

It is entirely artificial, and is a sign of the widespread, systemic social decay that has set in over the last century, stemming from deconstructionist, secular modernist understandings of how societies function or ought to function.
It is <50 years old as a “social theory.”

The “generation gap” has only been taken for granted and internalised since the 1960s.
Not only that, we’re now at the point where youth + online culture have substantial aspects of their identities built around unironically mocking their grandparents’ generation as a whole.

In fact there’s now even a divide being promoted between Gen Z and Millennials. These sorts of things were utterly unthinkable even to a degree within the living memory of elderly people alive today, and it is fostered and exacerbated in western society...

...across the board, through schooling, various forms of media like movies, tv, advertising, books, the internet, etc etc.
As I said earlier, it is a symptom and manifestation of broader philosophical and sociology-political attitudes that desire and encourage the breakdown of...

...the basic units of society; families, communities, nations.
You isolate children from their parents and grandparents and the wisdom and training that comes (or should come) through them, make them feel agitated and disconnected from everyone except their immediate peers,...

...you mix everyone up into year-groups where both sexes of the same age intermix at will with little supervision but you limit the development of strong relationships between age-groups to maximise individual malleability through unconscious social frustration and ineptitude.

Break down society into more easily manageable chunks, make content appealing to each different chunk, educate them differently at first before you get everyone up to speed.
At the same time, foster negative stereotypes of older people in light of (artificially) rapidly...

...changing society, and you’ve got a recipe for controlled anarchy.
Works like a charm.
And here we are.
Each one of us has to work to break free of this. I’m not talking about enlightenment rugged individualism as some ideal, I’m talking about a balanced, sane understanding.

As Christians we have to foster biblical, historically congruent views of societal units, starting with our families and local church communities, in that order.
Side note: the whole generation gap thing is also why nowadays a lot of people are disgusted by relationship age gaps.

People are repulsed by the idea of an 18 or 19 year old dating someone more than 5 years older.
This is completely normal and unproblematic, but when you combine the things I’ve talked about in this thread with other prevailing issues like feminism, pornography,...

...the various ills affecting both sexes, the destruction of courtship and marriage in a myriad of ways, hyper-sensualisation everywhere, and mass infantilisation of grown men and women, you get a recipe for confusion.