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When generational perspectives on historical progress conflict

My parents lived through segregation and civil rights and keep telling me how much better things are now but I see police violence and voter suppression and I cannot tell who is right about progress.

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Different lived experiences of historical change can create confusion about the direction of social evolution, obscuring one's own capacity for present-moment discernment.

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