Posted: Jun 26, 2019 4:26 pm
Cito di Pense wrote:Mr. Skeptic wrote:I'm just thankful that Gen Z and Millennials attitudes are much better than Boomers or even Gen X (my parent's generation). This is especially true for the future of our planet, in the long term anyway. Boomer's (at least the higher class ones) apathy towards the long term survival of our species is almost psychopathic.
It's always a great time to be old. Don't make fun of your elders just because they're nearing the end of the line.
Here's some reading that should really stoke your teenage angst:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... ca/592336/Hermit wrote:members of older generations who assert that the currently young generations are especially problematic, make those assertions because they don't like change. In short, stipulating an extraordinary maturity crisis is bullshit.
I don't want to suggest anything extraordinary is going on as far as generational crises are concerned. Climate change is a bugger, though.
I'd just ask Mr. S to stop pretending that teenage angst is anything new. When I was a young whippersnapper, and I saw what looked like a long, rough road ahead, it really looked to me like the older generation was making a mess of things. So, you know, I was on the barricades, too. Problem is, everybody ages. Laklak reminds us of Daltrey's Prayer.
I think I should not say #Notall. I should have clarified earlier that I was mostly talking about our politicians, big business owners, and other likely corrupt individuals of that nature. I'm sad to say I still very vulnerable to teenage angst or much fancier tribalism. I know everybody's gonna grow old eventually, I just think Millennials attitudes are better than what the media or other sources of information entails. After all, labels like "Millennial", "Boomer", and "Post-Millennial", are just words that only have their meaning because of an agreement on what the definition ought to be, or, at very least, is. Labels don't meaning any unless we want them to, and I and others sadly are quite hypocritical for using these words to talking about generations when this just creates an "us vs them" mentality. That's the problem or at the least, one of the problems.