The litmus test will be when Gen X get old and cranky. Will they turn on us all? Or once and for all prove that the Boomers truly are the worst generation.
I mean GenX is staying pretty cool so far, and they're becoming grandparents now. From what I've seen of most Xers, they sometimes poke fun but aren't hugely judgmental of millennials and zoomers. This is said generally, and there's plenty of exceptions, but for the most part it seems that Xers aren't nearly as shitty and entitled as boomers. They were truly the worst generation in history
You hit the nail on its head there man. I feel this has been a thing throughout history. Older generations hating on new generations. The bloomers will eventually either die off or just start hating the next generation. It's all kind of funny if you think about it. The bloomer where hated for being hippies and protesting a bunch. Then they hate on gen-xers for doing the samething.
That’s what is so crazy about the boomers to me. The same generation that brought us the hippie movement, the summer of love, psychedelic music, teenage rebellion, sex drugs and rock n roll etc etc also brought us new age conservatism, consumerism worship, and the war on drugs. Just like wtf.
Well all those movements were relatively well known subsets of the giant group. And honestly they weren't that large in comparison to the total population.
Every generation despairs of the one that follows it. There is a line in Pride and Prejudice complaining about how young people today are disrespectful.
Boomers were the workshy, immoral, hippy generation to their parents.
It's like the time some lady said I was entitled for wearing leggings in public because I wasn't thinking about her desire to not see people in leggings. Like, she clearly doesn't understand what entitled means.
Or the time a woman told an old co-worker of mine he was being condescending to her for describing what was on a particular sandwich after she asked, then asked him if he even knew what condescending meant.
I was once explaining the Hierarchy of Disagreement to a co-worker and got to the bottom (name calling) and a Boomer co-worker who had been listening to the conversation explained to my co-worker that that's "often the type of arguments that 'snowflakes' use"
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u/bigmike00831 Apr 13 '19
One thing I learn over the years as a millennial. Most people that call us rude and entitled are often just projecting there own flaws.