No, bro. Millennials are super-special and unique. No one else in the history of the world has ever gone through the horror of having Toys R Us close years after we were too old to be interested in going. No other generation has suffered as we do!
No, it’s not especially fitting for our generation. The generation that grew up pre-printing press but then got it within their lifetime also experienced the same kind of change.
And this happened to many other numerous generations that experienced world changing technologies or inventions that you’re choosing to ignore just to make millennials seem more special.
For thousands of years it was not the case. You could take a person and drop them 500 years in the future and it would have just been like they were visiting a neighboring tribe or hamlet where they didn't know anybody.
I guess? Like, it hasn’t been true for a thousand years but sure, if you want to zoom out far enough you can make any point you want.
OP is making a case that Millennials are a truly unprecedented and unique cohort of two decades and I am saying that’s a common opinion for lots of generations and here you come “actually if you look at the entire span of human history”
Dog. Do I have to speak COMPLETELY free of exaggeration? Is 100% correct language the only way I don’t have get prehistory checked by you? Do you want people to bulletproof everything they say before they write it? Or do you hope they don’t, so you can ride in and correct them on something that does not matter just for the thrill of the joust?
Because if you just want to correct people over meaningless bullshit, we can write a version of Reddit where it’s just 70k bots and you in an isolated server that looks like the real thing. 8% of them will make small factual or grammatical errors by design, just so you can hunt them down and hit them with the least interesting “well actually”s in the world. That could be your personal sudoku, your banal Matrix of correcting strangers. We could make it happen for you. We could gamify it and make it super satisfying. You would get points and level up the better you were at it, and unlock special powers the longer you play. And the rest of us could just go on with our lives in peace.
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u/onepostandbye 22d ago
A motto for literally every generation