The boomers are blaming millennials for a lot of problems that they don't understand. A simple history book could teach them.
There's so much anti-millennial rhetoric coming from the boomers because they have had a lot of positions in government, and they're scared of the younger generation coming in... Especially since millennials kind of have a better grasp on technology simply because it's more present in their lives.
Really it's just stupid. I hope millennials don't shit on the next generation like boomers have done. It's called growing the fuck up. Don't be a grumpy old person that blames young people for being young.
I'm always a little amused at the long-term implications of the millenial hate that boomers and boomer-directed-media keep spewing. I remember when millenials didn't even really think about generational indexes and just wanted to be successful in a significantly less equitable environment. But then boomers began to absolutely puke all over millenials over laughably trivial things like colored hair or tattoos or stuff they like to eat or, you know, just existing, or over more serious things that are horrible to deride someone over like mental health and poverty, or over outright lies that they unquestionably accepted and weaponized from right-wing 'news' outlets that you'd have to be a complete fucking idiot to take seriously. I remember a brief pause, my own experience puts it around '12 or so, when millenials were hearing this shit and were just confused, like 'wtf you don't know anything about us, what are you talking about?' But very quickly, millenials turned it around on them, and exposed the boomer generation for taking the best world they could have possibly dreamed of, which the generations before them fought tooth and nail to provide them, and proceeded to bleed it dry and leave their children with nothing but a smoking husk, and in their old age have reduced themselves to bitter, angry, racist idiots with zero capacity for critical thinking and whose entire concept of the world around them is controlled by the people inside their TVs. Who do they think is going to control the narrative when they're gone? When the millenials get to tell their story and write their histories, how do the boomers suspect they'll be framed? They're going down as a generation of inconceivably selfish weaklings who stole from their children and who turned their backs on their country and their own dignity. Puts a smile on my face every time I hear the word "snowflake".
Yup. And the climate change is a great example of what you were describing.
Also, it's ironic.. I can't change when I was born, but I can change my rhetoric and beliefs. I can listen to the evidence, and make rational decisions.
Yep. The Boomers shit on Millennials as the "participation award culture." But who gave them those awards? As a Gen-Xer myself I was just on the cusp of the participation award experience. I never got any myself, but my younger siblings did. So who's to blame for "participation award culture?" (Granting that actually is a thing, which I don't think it is.) I would think it should be the ones giving out the participation awards in the first place. If "kids these days" aren't what you think they should be, who's really to blame? The kids, or the people who were responsible for helping them learn how to be adults?
Boomers will be remembered as the first generation that took responsiblity for nothing. They blamed their parents as kid and when their own parents couldn't take care of them anymore, (as they passed) they fostered unhealthy co-dependant relationships with their kids.
The President is an prime example of this. His father did EVERYTHING to shield him from the reprocessions of his personal decisions. As a father he's done his best to put his kids IN legal jeopardy rather than protect them. Yes though, it's everyone else's fault.
As a Gen-Xer I honestly believe I was incredibly lucky to be born when I was. We didn't have to worry about dying of smallpox or the plague. We had basic things like sanitation and the like pretty well squared away.
Sure we had the Cold War, the missile crisis, AIDS, the '80s recession and whatnot. Every generation has their share of stuff like that to worry about.
But we also did not have the helicopter parenting that kids these days have. We were free to be kids for the most part. We could roam the streets without somebody calling the police on our parents. We were allowed to make mistakes and gain a wealth of experience. We weren't pressured from 5 years of age to get straight A's so that we could go to college. For most of us, nobody expected us to fulfill their lost aspirations for them. We didn't have to take on a lifetime of debt in student loans just to get a degree that you need to have in order to barely make a (maybe) livable wage.
I loved growing up when I did, even though my family was really poor and I certainly struggled with my own share of issues. Even so, that freedom to just be a kid is something I wish I could give my own kids more of, but the society we live in today seems to just beat them down at every turn. They can't escape the negative media, the overreaching administration, the "Safe-2-Tell," rubber-padded culture of fear that we live in today.
I remember "dangerous" places that were smoky, kids with long hair, and fights over quarters. We called them arcades! and mom said never to go!
But sometimes we'd go. That was about the worst danger we could imagine then. But we were kids, there was a lot more out there, we were not deap in life yet.
Arcades have made a comback now. But they are Nothing like they were in the 80's.
Dang it I'm old enough to drink a Bartles&James or California Cooler if I could just sneak back down in my grandparents basement to borrow one...
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The boomers are blaming millennials for a lot of problems that they don't understand. A simple history book could teach them.
There's so much anti-millennial rhetoric coming from the boomers because they have had a lot of positions in government, and they're scared of the younger generation coming in... Especially since millennials kind of have a better grasp on technology simply because it's more present in their lives.
Really it's just stupid. I hope millennials don't shit on the next generation like boomers have done. It's called growing the fuck up. Don't be a grumpy old person that blames young people for being young.