1, growth experience: both material and spiritual are just "lack".
As we all know, most elderly people who have problems in recent years were born around 1949. In their growth period, a prominent feature is "scarcity". When they grow up, they are in a "three-year difficult period".
Food shortage and hunger have greatly affected the formation of their material concept. Even in the period of material abundance, the "scarcity panic" in memory will make them try to occupy more and more material resources, and even take risks for material.
Under the background of long-term material shortage, the only purpose of human activities is almost to survive. In order to achieve this goal, with the previous political movements, the traditional moral concept of China society was broken, but the new moral concept did not exist. They can do anything possible to survive.
2. Basic education: the values of feeding the jungle with wolf milk.
In the environment of material and spiritual deprivation, people in this period did not get good family, school and social education. They completed the enlightenment and basic education by drinking wolf milk, and gained greater value in the jungle than anyone's fist.
Most importantly, there are no taboos and boundaries. Think about it. Where is the moral bottom line? Respect for the elderly, children, teachers and parents is the bottom line. So, they don't have these bottom lines at all.
Another serious consequence of wolf milk education is the lack of rationality and knowledge. The old man is not used to all kinds of voices and doesn't know how to argue reasonably. They are used to monologues. Appeal to reason and tolerance of dissidents are the rational and moral qualities that cave education cannot cultivate.
In terms of knowledge, the old people hardly read Chinese and western classics, and are not influenced by poetry, calligraphy, etiquette and music, which leads to their rudeness and ignorance.
Those rotten things that have just been planted are now the harvest season. Therefore, they don't think that square dance has brought trouble to others. They think that giving up their seats is not a concern, but a matter of course.
They can even tell right from wrong and frame others. They lack basic public education when they grow up, so they take everything for granted, even selfish. Of course, in addition to education, it is also closely related to another personal experience.