[OneVike]

Oh, and give it 30 years and the millennial generation will be blamed just like they are blaming everyone before them.

Messed up the link, here it is

We Didn't Start The Fire

[Hugh the Scot]

I’m actually not sure where I fit. Between boomer and gen x, I’ve worked (hard) since 17 years old, did my part in military service, paid for my own education, and found a successful career...

I don’t care who that offends.

[Tell It Right]

IMHO the millennial generation is the most polarized one. I don't mean "polarized" in the political sense, though they seem to be that too. I mean they're the generation that's the hardest to generalize and almost never has kind of a middle ground take on any behavior.

Take work ethic. Or drugs. Or sexual behavior. Or the way they handle money. Or physical fitness. In almost every way they're either full tilt in the positive or full tilt in the negative with little kinda-doing-it-so-so. For instance, I know millennials who have an awesome work ethic and ones who are the laziest bunch you'll meet, with few who work well some days and so-so other days (like a lot of Gen X-ers did as young adults). I know some who don't touch drugs at all, and some who are hooked on meth or heroin, but few who just smoke a joint every once in a blue moon (like a lot of Gen X-ers did). Same with either being full throttle Christians abstaining until marriage, or the complete opposite where every weekend is an attempt to do the nasty, and few who just do a little every now and then with a steady boyfriend/girlfriend (again like many Gen X'ers did). Same with physical fitness. Monetary habits. Hygiene habits. If they're civil or crude with others. It's like they know no middle ground at all.

[RinaseaofDs]

“Everybody was doing it”

That’s the Boomer Gen’s defense?

In the history of war, it was the moral imperative of the King to fully exploit military technological advantage to the fullest extent possible.

This was because such advantages were fleeting. The calculus was that to not exploit such an advantage was choosing cultural suicide.

In the history of Man, there’s been only one exception - the United States of America. For five years we had an advantage in arms and decided not to exploit it.

We chose not to.

Everything is a choice. Billy Joel’s frat house version of history notwithstanding, we get to decide that economic mathematics matter. It certainly did to Reagan and his staff, that did the math on the Soviet Union and realized that they could be spent into oblivion.

The generations of spoiled children. That’s going to be the epitaph of the post war generations.