COMPLEMENTARY ANALYSIS The generation gap begins when books become the means of transmitting information, between human beings, but now with the pandemic, human knowledge is mostly on the Internet and the old ones are less necessary.
The old ones were for centuries the repository of wisdom and group human memory, but as this information could be stored outside the human brain, the human relationships between parents and children changed.
Education that became a right in the 20th century, at the time when states took over free education. Before that, education was a privilege that was always in the hands of the privileged of society, which at first was a blood right, among aristocrats, then an obligation of the followers of a religion such as among Muslims and Evangelicals , or a way to train Catholics in the colonies of Spain.
But education as the transmission of non-dogmatic knowledge has been in the Old World colonies for a few years, so in our societies the old were very important, because they also gave us life, health, knowledge and rights, so there was a moral commitment to care for them when they were old. When industrialization and social security came, where workers put a part of their salary to receive a pension in retirement and medical care in old age, children were freed from the care of the elderly, creating an increasingly generation gap wide, since the knowledge of the old expires or is less useful every day. Human society now renews all its knowledge in just 190 days thanks to the Internet.
The development of science and technology, which is in a new process in which every minute this knowledge depends less on one person, depends more on one human group and we are entering the phase in which machines are learning to generate knowledge and communicate it visible on TV and the Internet.
So now the old have a price called retirement pension, which has been affected by the pandemic, because the affiliates in the case of less developed countries ,. it has been complicated by the wave of unemployment. like what happens in Latin America, where employment is more in crisis, due to the explosion of poverty and unemployment due to the pandemic.
While in developed countries the problem lies in the massive aging of the population that does not have a balance with births, so in these countries the machines will be the ones that pay or contribute to the insurance. as Bill Gates points out.
At the time when old age depends less on the care and help of the youngest, or those who have a job, as it is until now, which in the pandemic has made the old a great burden for countries, workers, or worse, for those who have family and do not have insurance or employment as is happening in third world countries.
But the migratory phenomenon is another factor that is widening the generational distance, together with the so-called technological distance, and the adaptation to new technologies, tools, languages, customs separates more children from parents, this is already in force even among the older and younger siblings, because there is already a difference in the perception of life, development, the future changes between siblings, which barely differ for a few years.
Migrants live a process of acculturation, in which they adopt the values of the places where they are going to live, causing them to consider relationships with their parents in a different way, for example physical punishment or reproach, which for one generation was considered as and necessary resource to create respect, parental considerations. obedience, in a less developed country, in more developed countries that is considered physical abuse or mistreatment, creating separation of children, which can be irreversibly between parents or grandparents with children and grandchildren, which multiplies the phenomenon of the abandonment of the elderly, which is now a pandemic.
In 1999 Ecuador experienced an emigration crisis in which 3 million workers, both men and women, began to leave the country, which has been reduced but has not stopped and with the pandemic it has returned. At first, the emigrants became only a consignment, and greetings on special dates, the children they left behind, now want to illegally invade the countries where their parents work, after years in which they are only impalpable images.
Today the children who take care of their parents are considered the unhappy martyrs, for which the nursing homes have become saving resources, which in poor countries are a privileged place or a means of isolating them.
Today the physical image or the number of years already creates prejudices about the old, without considering that aging is something particular-
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