Posted on 03/13/2016 8:54:51 AM PDT by walford
Millennials.
They may not yet be the present, but they’re certainly the future. These young, uninitiated minds will someday soon become our politicians, doctors, scientists, chefs, television producers, fashion designers, manufacturers, and, one would hope, the new proponents of liberty. But are they ready for it?
Time after time, particularly on college campuses, millennials have proven to be little more than entitled, spoiled, anti-intellectual brats who place far too much emphasis on feelings and nowhere near enough emphasis on critical thinking. To the millennial, words are cause for the creation of safe spaces, alternative ideas must be stifled, and anything they perceive to be a microaggression is enough to send them spiraling into a state of mental distress.
It’s time millennials understood these 7 harsh realities of life so we don’t end up with a generation of gutless adult babies running the show.
Seriously, nobody who has already graduated college cares about your feelings. That means that when you complain to your boss because your co-worker mis-gendered you, he’s probably not going to bend over backwards to bandage your wounds. Given feelings are entirely subjective in nature, it’s completely unreasonable to demand everyone tip-toe around you to prevent yours from being hurt. The reality is that people will offend you and hurt your feelings, and they won’t stop to mop up your tears because they shouldn’t have to. Learning to accept criticism, alternative viewpoints, and even outright insults will make you happier in the long run than routinely playing the victim card.
This is a comforting lie parents have started telling their children to boost their morale in school. Unfortunately, millennials are now convinced it’s true, especially as society has now decided to push this narrative as well. The reality is if you’re 17 years old and still can’t figure out basic division, you’re not going to be a rocket scientist. If you’re overweight and unattractive, you’re not going to be the quarterback’s prom date. If you lack fine motor skills, you’re not going to be a heart surgeon. It’s okay to accept that you cannot be whatever you want to be. In fact, once you accept this, you’ll be able to focus on the things you can be — the things you really are talented at.
You heard me. While some millennials taking useless degrees will claim they’re beneficial for teaching or research positions, the reality is that they just put themselves several thousands dollars in debt to learn how to be a professional victim. While you’re struggling to make ends meet after graduation because nobody who pays more than minimum wage is interested in your qualifications and you’re drowning in student loan debt, be sure to check out the next harsh reality before you start complaining.
That’s right. Even though you work at McDonald’s for minimum wage because you got a useless, outrageously expensive college degree, you’re still far better off than the vast majority of the planet. Don’t believe me? Fly to Uganda and check out the living conditions there. Fly to China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Iran, Russia, and even European countries like Ukraine and Greece, and you’ll quickly discover just how well-off you really are. While it may be cool these days to dump on capitalism, it’s the only reason you aren’t already worse off.
That includes healthcare, guaranteed income, and somewhere to live. Just because you’re here and breathing doesn’t mean society owes you anything. Like the billions of people who lived before you, working hard is a better guarantor of wealth and the ability to comfortably take care of yourself than begging society or the government to do it for you. Demanding healthcare be a right, for example, is equivalent to demanding government force the taxpayer to pay for it. While that may seem like a good idea in theory, it only leads to rationing of care when costs become unsustainable, which negatively impacts not just your health, but everyone else’s, too.
By contrast, you do have the right to live however you please, so long as it’s within the confines of the law. If you want to cross-dress, smoke marijuana, drink lots of alcohol, have lots of sex, and, yes, even go to school for gender studies, then by all means, go for it. Government should not be allowed to legislate people’s behavior as long as it doesn’t infringe upon someone else’s rights, but that doesn’t mean society isn’t allowed to have an opinion. You don’t have the right to demand people keep their opinions about your lifestyle to themselves, especially if you’re open and public about it. I have as much of a right to comment on the way you live your life as you do to actually live it. Your feelings are not a protected right, but my speech is.
No matter where you go in life, someone will be there to offend you. Maybe it’s a joke you overheard on vacation, a spat at the office, or a difference of opinion with someone in line at the grocery store. Inevitably, someone will offend you and your values. If you cannot handle that without losing control of your emotions and reverting back to your “safe space” away from the harmful words of others, then you’re best to just stay put at home. Remember, though: if people in the outside world scare you, people on the internet will downright terrify you. It’s probably best to just accept these harsh realities of life and go out into the world prepared to confront them wherever they may be waiting.
Who gave birth to the me generation?
Especially liked that last one!
Regards,
There are a wide variety of people in the millennial generation. Some of them were homeschooled, some were just made to study and work hard. These people will become highly successful and rise to the top of society.
My niece and her husband are both 30. They own a house, and are in the top 10% of US household income already. They are both qualified for many high-paying jobs.
Millenials are a lost generation. While the baby boomers were not looking the socialist school system got these kids early and most will be socialists their whole lives. They hate Capitalism and rich people are evil. White people are too entitled.
Dr. Spock, Dr. Hoffman, and Dr. Pincus
That bears repeating. You cannot inflate, tax or tariff your way to prosperity, although you can assuage your injured feelings by those means.
it would be three times more disappointing if you knew what freedoms we had and the mix of the population of the USA in the 50 - 60’s...I was born in 1949...absolute best times to be a child and adolescent!
Killing wrote a wonderful poem about that. If you’re not familiar with The Gods of the Copybook Headings, you should be.
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm
Dear millennials,
I’d very sorry to inform you that we’ve already really screwed you over. If you JUST count the on the books national debt (excluding the embezzlement of public employees with unfunded retirements and benefits), you owe the world one really nice house in most of the country (or a small condo in Los Angeles) - roughly $350,000.
By the time you come into your full power, that debt will be closer to $800,000 per actual taxpayer.
Before you imagine that you’ll have the cushion that my generation inherited, I’m sorry to inform you that it is already spoken for. With non-dischargeable debts like student loans and medical costs, odds are that the family home will be sold off and the entire proceeds used to pay those end of life debts.
That free college you wanted? We’ve already spent the money. Free healthcare? Already spent. That seed money to start a business? It is going to the government and guaranteed lenders.
/s/
Your ancestors.
On point 4: the U.S. poverty line is at the 85th percentile of world incomes.
If you’re below it, welfare will easily take you well above it.
I bookmarked this one. What a great article.
And who was it that got suckered by these fools and raised their kids accordingly?
Not me!
I am old enough to have been raised by Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, and Dr. Howard.
They have been saying that about every generation born during the post WW 2 era. The truth is that one learns to deal with the harsh realities of life through hardship. Hardship in general has not afflicted any generation from the boomers to the Millennials. America simply has gone soft.
LOL. Cursory view of TV listings don’t show The 3 Stooges anywhere on the hundreds of cable channels out there.
Probably The 3 Stooges offends the sensibilities of our TV programmers today.
Yet these same people in charge of TV today, think it’s perfectly fine to have awards shows with oral sex jokes, and sitcoms which push homosexuality.
Times have changed, and not always for the better.
Perhaps because they were Jooooooooooooos.
Far too many times I'm saddened by an author's inability/unwillingness to use modifier words like:
"a few millennials".
"some millennials".
"lots of millennials".
"far to many millennials".
"most millennials".
"a majority of millennials".
Such modifiers allow millenials to possibly agree on the issue without assuming that the author includes them automatically.
....And we saw the fruit of this “spoiling” this past Friday night in Chicagoland.
America has “gone soft” since the end of the “Cold War”.
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