Well, I hate to be the party pooper, but I hate these artificial divisions called “generations”. Who decides which people are part of which generation? How is someone born one year have totally different characteristics from someone born the next year (supposed start of a new generation)?
People can’t even agree in the exact years of the Boomer generation, and now we seem to have a new genearation being named every few years.
I simply do not believe that everyone born within a certain span of years thinks and acts alike and that they were all raised the same way. Liberals are the ones who are always bundling people into groups and assigning them certain values and attitudes. Conservatives are supposed to look at people as individuals.
Most of the young people I know have a very good work ethic. If they don’t have loyalty to an employer, perhaps it is because they saw their dads being laid off after 20 or 30 years of service.
Everything bad that happens in our economy is caused by crappy government policies. Stop the encroachment of socialism and encourage free market capitalism, and you will see most people respond with a good work ethic.
Everyone is an individual. I don’t buy the group mentality BS.
Agreed. I know myself, I don’t see myself as a Gen X’er nor a Baby Boomer. I was born in 1966 so there is a niche generation called “Generation Jones” that had elements of both Boomers and X’ers. I see myself in “Generation Jones.” I guess when it comes to similar experiences in growing up and so forth, I think generations do apply there but as you put it, we are individuals too. It is like when Glenn Beck, born in 1964, talks about how his family loaded up in the station wagon and did this and that, I’m two years younger so I remember the same things, I could be his baby brother. B-) Yes, we have lazy people but I think you’re right where dues to government policies and the layoffs of our parents from industrial jobs, there is a jaded cynicism out there. I know I feel it, many of us in our ages, let alone the ones following us, are very cynical one way or another when it comes to jobs, business and government. Most of us generally know how things should work and so on, but in the real world, because of our downward slide, it is hard not to be cynical and even depressed.
Yeah... my son watched his dad give up sick days etc... all for the factory he worked at for 27 years get sent to Brazil and we aren’t even a union state.
You may not agree, but the science and facts are pretty compelling. And they have been compelling back to the 1700’s.
No one likes to be put into a little box, and there are exceptions to the rules, and the lines at the edges are fuzzy. Your cultural environment has a lot to do with it. Rural areas tend to be less affected than urban areas. The cultures from different countries impact these differently.
However the cycles are clear.
Agreed.
People cease being individuals and become instead part of a group only by choice. One of the traits that set conservatives and liberals apart.