Originally Posted by verklingen

surely you know that when you were our age, many were telling people the comfort and safety we appeared to then live in was a mere illusion, with the threat of communist warheads looming every day. were the people who got passed that *possibility* and enjoyed what they had rather than fearing how it could all be stripped away truly child-like?

i don't think anyone believes they're going to be "taken care of" -- not how you mean it, anyway -- forever, but that doesn't preclude a sense of one always being able to take care of oneself. anyway, what i'm getting at is this: how does what you're saying differ from the "imminent threats" of the past that never materialized? sure, maybe it was ignorant of them to be so child-like, but there's a difference between being child-like and being immature. in my view the people who claim the sky is falling were and still are the immature ones. you can tell because immature people always have a miserable outlook