Trauma Chains
If it is in fact true that trauma ripples through the generations, Memorial Day is a day to reflect on how that's continuing to playing out.
Humans are perhaps wired to be miserable, which may serve some evolutionary purpose to keep us striving for more. Everyone has their own low set-point similar to a weight set-point, where some people can be extremely overweight because their set-point is high. People with a low mood set-point tend to be more pessimistic regardless of their situation.
An example might be someone living in the 2040s, which may be a happy time in their lives and in human history, but they might be in a bad situation, and may have suffered through the war in Ukraine or were involved in a mass shooting, and that event will epigentically trigger past memories, or per the book It Didn't Start With You might also include stressors inherited from descendants:
"Perhaps your mother carried a wound from her mother and was unable to give you what she didn't yet. Her parenting skills would be limited by what she did not receive from her parents. Maybe your mother lost a child before you were born, or gave a child up for adoption, or lost her first love in a car accident, the man she had planned to marry you. Perhaps her father died when she was young, or her brother was killed getting off the school bus. The shockwaves from such an event would affect you, but the actual events would have nothing to do with you directly. Instead of the trauma with tie up your mother's focus and attention no matter how great your love for you."
David Pearce has interesting insights into the dilemma of depressed thinking.
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