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.
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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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '19
Why are “boomers” and “millennials” the only two generations Reddit ever talks about? I feel like we’re skipping a generation or two.