“We were able to show through our hair samples what the lead concentrations are before and after the establishment of regulations by the EPA,” said demographer #link(“https://profiles.faculty.utah.edu/u0030780”)[Ken Smith];, a distinguished professor emeritus of family and consumer studies. “We have hair samples spanning about 100 years. And back when the regulations were absent, the lead levels were about 100 times higher than they are after the regulations.”
I’m not even joking, i’m fairly certain the massive lead exposure boomers copped is responsible for a lot of their behaviour.
Fun fact: most lead is taken up and locked intour bones. Which is mostly harmless…until you hit advanced age where degradation or fractures leak it back into your bloodstream
That and generational trauma from two world wars.
That said there is a lot of data that seems to state that the drop in violent crime and crime in general had a lot to do with not having lead addled brains.
The auto industry knowing what the lead did and pushing for roads to be built in over or through black neighborhoods should be persecuted the same way tobacco was supposed to be.
No Boomer, by definition, has seen any world war.
Boomers, by definition, were raised by generations who did though.
Generational trauma.
I know my boomer parents were raised by people who were traumatized by war and it impacted them.
The boomers also lived through Vietnam, so sure not a world war but a war just the same. We Americans are “spoiled” insomuch as war happens “somewhere else”
No, but the trauma from the war generations is passed on to the boomers. One of the pioneers on research of generational trauma is a son of a Holocaust survivor. His first observation of generational trauma was when his dad told him to just do what he says without question. And even though the researcher was a child at the time, he already acutely noted that his dad sounded like the Nazis who persecuted him. A lot of family members, unfortunately, bear the brunt of emotional lashing out of those who experienced conflicts.