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And then there were those individuals in the 60s who are today the Man--they took up running things (for better or for worse).
Those Millennials who continue to believe they are "special snowflakes"--like the 60s hippies that never grew up--will not be the individuals who step up to the plate to become the Man 25 years from now.
I work with a bunch of Millennials (and my daughter is one) who are quick and smart and tough--and on track to becoming the Man just as soon as the cycle turns to them.
My daughter is one as well. Let's stop taking posts as literally YOU specifically, rather than as the whole. Sure there are still strong individuals, but THE MAN is now taking away the "individual" and pushing "the whole" which is basically no better than a herd, the borg, totalitarianism. Completely counter to what this country was founded on.
Props to you and I for raising strong daughters... but they are going to have a very hard time.
My daughter is one as well. Let's stop taking posts as literally YOU specifically, rather than as the whole. Sure there are still strong individuals, but THE MAN is now taking away the "individual" and pushing "the whole" which is basically no better than a herd, the borg, totalitarianism. Completely counter to what this country was founded on.
Props to you and I for raising strong daughters... but they are going to have a very hard time.
Herding cattle should then be an easier chore for the Man of the 21st century than herding cats was for the Man of the 20th century.
But, frankly, my view of history does not reveal any point that most of the population wasn't cattle.
Why? The news article I posted discusses Western Hemisphere industrialized countries, including those in Scandinavia and Europe. 14 points lost on IQ. What is currently 100 (average) is the former 86.
Welcome to the idiocracy.
I only spoke about America because most people in this thread are speaking about America, not the rest of the western world.
Ignorance on display from an obviously young ideologue you are my misguided friend.
It's still the boomers' country and the entitlement programs that they created. I figured this would be right up their alley. Why stop the gravy train now. Not sure how that's ignorant. I'd call it perceptive.
We are sooooo screwed.
The selfie unemployed handout duck-face generation will be running this country in the near future. Hopefully I will be dead within the next 10 years.
That's if they stick around. There's a good chance they'll bail on you first chance they get. It's possible before they're able to do that they get hit by a bus or train or something because they can't look up from their iPhonedroidthingy.
Is it only the angry and dissatisfied boomers who are taking their own life frustrations out on millennials?
Hopefully all the condescending hostility is coming from a minority, as boomers (on the whole) are wealthy group that I assume would otherwise be living up their retirement. I can't imagine a satisfied boomer caring about what young people do.
I look at kids today, needing crisis counseling because someone wrote "Trump 2016" in chalk on a sidewalk, having their parents go WITH them on job interviews, having absolutely zero sense of personal responsibility or ability to handle a crisis and I wonder what's in store for us when they inherit the country.
After all, the youth is the future and WE failed them for enabling and fostering this nonsense that "everyone gets a trophy" or that good parenting is hovering over your kids to the point where they can't function without you.
I truly hope this is just a symptom of the 24/7 news media where we see so many of these stories just because we have access to so much information but I fear it's more systemic and that we are basically screwed.
As others have pointed out, during the greatest generation 18 year olds were storming the beaches in Normandy and today they need crisis counseling because someone wrote the name of a presidential candidate they don't like in chalk.
In my dad's generation, you were EXPECTED to leave the house at 18 and support yourself. Today, you have kids taking their parents with them on job interviews
Is it only the angry and dissatisfied baby boomers who are taking their own life frustrations out on millennials?
Hopefully all the condescending hostility is coming from a minority, as boomers (on the whole) are wealthy group that I assume would otherwise be living up their retirement. I can't imagine a satisfied boomer caring about what young people do.
Its easy to dismiss this thread as a lame and obvious attempt at generational division just as race and religious and social class division has been pushed recently. That just shows how desperate the establishment is to have people turn on each other and not to unite against them. But maybe its just frustration by a new generation of have nots who just don't have the life experience to know why they don't have what they want and probably won't get what earlier generations had. They don't have a clue as to what happened and why they can't seem to succeed without even trying. Here's a hint: The government and the establishment go hand in hand and have decided to keep you down so they can keep on top. Blaming baby boomers is a waste of time. If they've been spoon fed BS and unreal expectations their relatively short lives by those they trust, when they get blindsided by reality they'll only naturally be confused and upset. Maybe ask your grandparents what they'd do in your situation. That's a start.
Its easy to dismiss this thread as a lame and obvious attempt at generational division just as race and religious and social class division has been pushed recently. That just shows how desperate the establishment is to have people turn on each other and not to unite against them. But maybe its just frustration by a new generation of have nots who just don't have the life experience to know why they don't have what they want and probably won't get what earlier generations had. They don't have a clue as to what happened and why they can't seem to succeed without even trying. Here's a hint: The government and the establishment go hand in hand and have decided to keep you down so they can keep on top. Blaming baby boomers is a waste of time. If they've been spoon fed BS and unreal expectations their relatively short lives by those they trust, when they get blindsided by reality they'll only naturally be confused and upset. Maybe ask your grandparents what they'd do in your situation. That's a start.
I created the other thread on baby boomers as a parody of this one. I'm a Gen Xer myself so it's more for pointing out just how silly this can be. Hopefully nobody's behind their computer screen foaming at the mouth with rage lol.
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