Posted on 09/03/2014 8:12:30 AM PDT by C19fan
Many problems with kids can be traced to their parents. So why have millennials been singled out as a uniquely depraved generation? Weren’t they raised by somebody?
For those who may have missed the latest skirmish in America’s generational warfare, a new survey by marketing firm DDB finds millennials — those between 19 and 34 years old, more or less — may be more venal and self-aggrandizing than older folks. They’re more likely to consider themselves workaholics — even with a work ethic their elders find lacking — and a scandalous 27% of millennials say they’d take credit for a colleague’s work if it helped them get ahead. Just 15% of Generation Xers and 5% of baby boomers say they’d do that.
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Spoken like a fellow GenXer!
As I watch my kids struggle to get started in life I realize part of the problem is impatience - we're doing fine now, but it took us years. My kids have trouble accepting that it takes a long time to get here.
This is called “Divide and Conquer”. It’s a great weapon. Lump people into groups and sow hatred. They’ll be so busy fighting one another they’ll never see what you’re doing.
Baby Boomers raised Gen-X/Y/YMe. They can take the blame for the lack of discipline, leadership, mentoring, etc.
I agree completely.
I judge them as individuals. It sucks if 70% (just made up that number) vote liberal, but there are 30% who are probably hard working, honest, raising families and/or embracing conservative causes.
I’ll judge that 30% on their own merits and write off the rest.
They’re off and running....
Oh, yeah. It’s just really hard to convince anyone who’s looking at starting out 50 grand in the hole from college loans that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. My nephew is *this close* to quitting the whole crooked game and I can’t say I blame him much.
Talk is cheap. How about some facts to back up your asinine assertion.
Notice that the Beatles/William Ayers/Jimi Hendrix generation is totally invisible, as is the generation previous to them, the LBJs, Walter Cronkites and Senator Byrds in generational discussions, they all get bundled up into the nonsensical left’s creation of “the greatest generation”?
In so many generation articles “boomer” is sometimes used for whatever one doesn’t like from about the 1950s until today, and I have seen it go back into even the 1930s as the creators of Social Security.
Actually, I recall hearing my grandfather (who was pre-Greatest Generation) make subtle and negative asides against the WW2 Greatest Generation. Nothing too harsh, but he did seem to believe that, following the war, they too often didn’t live up to their family/job/marital obligations. Compared to what he knew and observed in the pre-war years amongst his peers. I think there was some actual truth in that, although it might be impolitic to bring up any criticism towards those who admittedly sacrificed so much and so many people to keep us free.
Every new generation seems to be going further and further downhill, but it’s not as if I particularly blame any individuals, because they are all subject to the decline in culture. Sometimes I do single out the baby-boom generation for the most criticism, though. Mainly because it was first generation to have a sort of self-conscious identity, which was brimming with a rightious superiority in terms of its culture and moral crusades. There was such an insufferable “before us, there was nothing” attitude towards music, civil rights, environment, etc. I used to encounter it all the time, and you can still get a sense of it in all those Viagra/investment commercials, which tap into that whole “you changed the world, dude” vibe. Really makes me gag, still.
“Between the Boomers who are like locusts and their Millenial progeny we are doomed.”
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Relax.
I’ve spent my entire long life referred to as a member of The Silent Generation. How insulting.
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Yep. Gotta fight together or die in generational/racial/cultural tribal groups. Every generation has it's sins and virtues. Stay focused on the THREAT.
I come in at the tail-end of Generation X. After my boomer parents split in order to enjoy all manner of hedonistic pursuits, I was essentially left to raise myself. I am not going to complain about the job I did.
Maybe I’m not as ambitious as my parents were (who would be after watching my parents’ and their siblings’ greed cause so much grief?), but I know how to take take of myself. I’m not living off my parents or the dole, so if you boomers have a problem with that then I suggest you butt out.
I’ve never had the pleasure of going to Texas. If I’m ever around, I’ll have to take you up on that!
I limit myself to only one, maybe two drinks though for health reasons. (I managed to drink a few too many for too long in the past - so I’ve already had my share. lol) That makes me a good person to take out for a drink, because I won’t hit your wallet too hard, and I can drive. lol
Sucks only being born with one Liver. However, my doctor told me that we’re born with ‘enough Liver’ for about nine people, and I used enough of mine for eight of them.
Just like the millennials to find someone else to take the blame....
Good post!
Signed,
A Boomer who’s tired of boomer-bashing on FR. Every generation has good and bad people in it.
As for the millennials, I'm starting to see a split there between those older or younger than 24. Those 24-30 bought the Obama brainwashing. Those 18-24 see some damn politician fubarring the country and wonder what their siblings see in them.
I’m a boomer and my progeny is Generation X. Why should I get blamed for the millennials when I have my own sins.”
Same here, boomer kids. Sometimes I think that we boomers should have had more kids so there would not be such a small generation following us.
I do find that the younger boomers with millennial children raised them to be more selfish, careless and entitled. The parents hover over them more, rushing home if they lose their house key for the third time or loaning a car when the kid wrecks his own. This even when the child is in late teens and early 20s
People fall for all the time. Even here on FR where they should know better.
The liberals need a generation war as they already have a racial war started and are still successfully fighting the sexist war with “feminism”. Create groups and pit them against one another. It works.
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