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I'm a Boomer but I side with the younger generation and will offer my services to them and help them in their goal to enslave everyone else, providing I'm compensated for my treachery.
(first bit of useful info; I know where we keep the extra batteries and flashlights)
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Originally Posted by carterstamp
Yeah, but I know where we keep the beer.
It’s awfully nice of you guys to keep that stuff safe for the guy who knows where they keep the guns.
Last edited by AnesthesiaMD; 02-13-2019 at 12:13 PM..
I keep seeing "boomers" bashing "millenials", "gen Z" bashing everyone, etc. Can we just stop? Most of us older adults were children once too. We were young, naive and convinced we knew everything. Heck, some of my generation were the "hippies" of the 60s and 70s. Woodstockers, etc. We got older, went to work, paid taxes, got kicked in the teeth by life a few times. And grew the F up.
Today's kids are no different. There is an old saying-"If you're not liberal at 16, you have no heart. If you're not conservative by 30, you have no brain". Some truth to that. The naivety of youth always gets smacked in the face by reality.
If there is anyone to blame-it is the older generation-that raised the younger generations, and demanded and expected so little. It put these kids years behind in terms of learning about life. Catering to their every whim, buying them everything they desired, instilling no discipline or sense of responsibility. They will learn-the same as we all did-but instead of maturing to some extent in their teens, it's now in their 20s.
Totally agree. One of the things I've learned in my 60 years (and you have to have lived a while to truly learn this lesson) is that way back in the day, when we thought we knew everything, we really didn't know much. The younger generations that now think they know everything have yet to learn this life lesson. Things aren't a simply as younger generations want to believe (ah, my idealistic younger days with simply solutions that were so naive is was sad).
Blaming a generation on the today's situation is disingenuous anyway. Millions of people with different beliefs who lived different lives, voted differently, worked for different things - liberals, conservations, moderates, I-don't-cares, etc. What this proves, and what these younger generations will see, is that you can't always get what you want and the world will do what it does - in many cases whether you like it or not. So blaming all boomers for the current national debt is stupid - not everyone voted the same, not everyone supported the same things. It's just lazy thinking.
As a gen-X'er, we were **** on for years as unmotivated slackers. Then the Millennials came along and became the targets of self-righteous old people. It's just how our culture works. Probably been that way for longer than any of us have been alive.
Now as for the hate from younger people directed at Baby-Boomers... I think at least the depth and breadth of the anti-boomer generational scorn is kindof a new thing. Sure younger generations have always had conflict with older generations, but baby-boomers are a particularly large, influential, and monolithic group. That attracts attention.
I don't have a fix for this. My generation is just sitting on the sidelines, chuckling while we watch the world burn down
The one good thing about being a Gen Xer right now is they tend to leave us out of the fighting. We can sit back, watch, and mock it all accordingly. LOL
They want to pit everyone against each other. Racial division is probably showing diminishing returns so now its generation vs generation. The other generation is to blame for your problems and they have it better than you and its not fair. Even gender division is probably not getting as much attention as it used to.
As a gen-X'er, we were **** on for years as unmotivated slackers. Then the Millennials came along and became the targets of self-righteous old people. It's just how our culture works. Probably been that way for longer than any of us have been alive.
Somehow I became one of those old people-not quite sure how the hell that happened (both that I got old so quickly-and that I lived this long). It wasn't any different for kids in the 60s-70s.
I know a fair number of 20-somethings (not sure what label is correct and don't care). The ones I know are hard working, successful and have done well for themselves, and their families.
Somehow I became one of those old people-not quite sure how the hell that happened (both that I got old so quickly-and that I lived this long). It wasn't any different for kids in the 60s-70s.
I know a fair number of 20-somethings (not sure what label is correct and don't care). The ones I know are hard working, successful and have done well for themselves, and their families.
Glad to hear it, and I'd say much the same for most of the Millennials I know. But millions of Boomers out there make a hobby of trashing the millennials. It's common as dirt.
A lot of the anti-boomer sentiment out there is just a reflection of all the hate Boomers have piled onto the millennials. That was a one-way street for a LONG time with Boomers trashing Millennials when they were still KIDS. Now those kids are largely grown up and hitting back... and boomers just can't understand where it's coming from.
And you gotta admit that the Boomers are a self-righteous bunch who had post-war prosperity handed to them on a platter. Boomers who by and large *created* the system in which millions of Millennials are now struggling. Boomers who got rich off their childrens' futures, leaving a mountain of debt and pension obligations that can likely never be paid. Boomers who now get Socialist Security income and Medicare Socialized Medicine... decrying millennials who get none of that as entitled socialists.
Now that's not to say that Millennials are blameless. Not by a long shot. Just saying that Boomers started this generational hate, and are the direct cause of much of what they blame on Millennials.
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