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I love threads like these where people paint with the broadest brush they can find. I wonder do they realize they say far more about themselves than whoever they complain about? Quite entertaining and revealing.
I love threads like these where people paint with the broadest brush they can find. I wonder do they realize they say far more about themselves than whoever they complain about? Quite entertaining and revealing.
I wouldn't take it too badly, it's - in this case - broadly true.
Older people raised younger people, so their real gripe should be with their own failure to raise decent human beings. Anything else is hypocrisy or griping for the sake of griping. And older people love to complain about almost everything.
It's the last day of April and snowing outside. I had to give my wife a ride to work this morning because she doesn't trust her own winter driving skills. I went to see my doctor after dropping her off, but he couldn't remember why he'd asked me to come in. My thumb hurts, but all the doctor wanted to know about was my boots. (He decided they were good(!) boots.) I gained weight since my last visit. I'm broke. I didn't work and invest for nearly 60 years to be broke, but that's how it's turned out. I don't like your post. You must be a youngen, think you're an adult and blame me for your bad manners. Dang my house is a mess. My desk is even worse. Tyler, git over here and bring a broom!
Fear of change
Fear of their mortality
Fear of their increasing cultural irrelevancy
Overall, they are angry and afraid as they realize that their lifestyle is going to disappear along with their generation. They have lived for decades safely assuming that their peers would always be the ones that set trends and steered society, now they know that they were living in denial. Life moves on and things change and evolve. The visible signs of those changes are a daily reminder that the older generation's time at the helm is over and the things that they cared deeply about are no longer treated with sacred reverence.
You believe that huh? That entire generations don't grasp the concept of change.... gonna put my boots on, this is getting deep.
Whatever reason people have to complain about other groups of people, it isn't a good one. If someone focuses on their own responsibility and life then they won't have the time to complain about other people. And if there's a problem in society they don't like it would be far more productive to do what they can that actually helps it rather than moan and complain like a loser.
Very interesting perspectives being posted here indeed, from the younger ones. And I find myself surprisingly agreeing with some of them. Since I turned 67 years old this week, I am now one of the people being ostracized here.
I did not go back and read every reply on this thread, so my apologies to the posters here if I am making a duplicate statement of theirs. But we oldies have to utilize our time wisely every moment, because we do not know when our time is up.
I would like for the young people today to not take EVERY constructive or even destructive statement made to them by an older person, as a 100% gripe or negative. Because many times we are trying to get the young person that has not lived long enough to make the mistakes we have, to learn from us...how to NOT repeat them.
P.S. Any of you whippersnappers that woke up today and are reading this thread now...guess WHAT ?
Fear of change
Fear of their mortality
Fear of their increasing cultural irrelevancy
Overall, they are angry and afraid as they realize that their lifestyle is going to disappear along with their generation. They have lived for decades safely assuming that their peers would always be the ones that set trends and steered society, now they know that they were living in denial. Life moves on and things change and evolve. The visible signs of those changes are a daily reminder that the older generation's time at the helm is over and the things that they cared deeply about are no longer treated with sacred reverence.
Don't get me wrong, folks. I love several old people. I value their perspective. And as a Gen-X'er well into middle age, I'm beginning to understand what it means to grow old... and as such I cut the old people in my life a LOT of slack.
But I have no patience for coddled old Baby-Boomers and their incessant complaints about Millennials. It's been beat to death. These geeezers are obsessed, and clearly guilty of nearly everything they accuse the Millennials of. We've got millions of these useless old farts who wouldn't be *alive* without Socialist Security checks and Medicare Socialized Medicine... and they constantly cry that Millennials are socialists. And vast swaths of these Boomers do everything in their power to pull up the ladder behind them... so that younger generations get none of the benefits these dried up old prunes are receiving. Worse than useless.
As a member of Gen-X, I've never been part of an influential generation. We're left-overs. After-thoughts. Adapting to a changing world, but with little influence over it. And we received our share of bull**** from older people in our day. So when I see the reigning Boomers sperging over 'kids these days'... it looks to me like they're just expressing their anxiety about being replaced. They've had things their way for so long that they can't imagine anything else.
In my opinion it is envy. I believe it to be primarily based on our technological culture that has allowed younger generations to become educated in a way that is not entirely understood by the older generation. More specifically, a vast tech-savvy knowledge gap they wish was at their disposal which they see as an easier opportunity to make it through life for which they never got the chance.
You are not an old person, correct?
DH and I have talked about this. We are thankful we raised our family in earlier decades. We both feel that our kids and our grands will have a harder time than we did.
I think older folks criticize younger folks because they do not understand why some younger folks do the stuff they do. There is, IMO, a lack of insight between Millennials and Boomers. Boomers understand their lives; Millennials understand their lives. But there is not a lot of overlap between them. Generations tend to self segregate, and so from an outsider perspective, certain things seem odd or crazy.
I think there is also a certain segregation between Boomers and Gen Xers, but the separation is not so profound. (My children are Gen Xers, as I imagine the children of many Boomers are.)
I have never heard any of my friends (peer group) express any envy of the younger generation. It is more like, "Thank goodness I never had to put up with that." I do think extreme dress sometimes ruffles the feathers of older folk. But this is ironic, because Boomers started the crazy clothing thing. Boomers themselves were wont to say, "Never trust anyone over 30." My generation was the first that experienced widespread distrust of government. In all honestly, we have a lot in common.
But differences in the economy and culture have become profound. I put this down to not understanding, and an unwillingness to learn about others. I also think I can safely say that Millennials are the same as elders in this way.
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