What I see is a generation so coddled and sheltered... that they find horrible what a depression-era child would find paradise.
Wussy-boys, the lot of them.
“Waaah! I saw on TV a bad man with a gun. Waaah, waaah, mommy, *SOB*!”
“That’s okay, Johnny! You’re only 22 years old, you can’t be expected to cope with scenes on TV like that. I’ll call the grief counsellor, the psychiatrist, and the pharmacy (for some Prozac). There, there! Don’t cry, it makes Mommy sad.”
Like I said... Wussy little mama’s boys.
(Grief counsellors, for Pete’s sake! AAARGH! I wonder if the children of Al Capone’s victims thought they needed grief counsellors?)
The first thing I thought of when I started reading the article was the new SUV's I see in school parking lots. I then stopped reading.
Try being in you 20’s, starting a family and buying a house these days... Tougher than it has been in a long time.
One thing though - whether by design or incompetence I cannot say - it seems apparent that todays 24/7 “bad news, all the time” news reporting coupled with disfunctional education system, parents, et. al, produces a neurotic populace fairly predictably.
I have not seen anyone from Gen X or Y that is complaining about how horrible we have it. I got it pretty damn good, when my father was my age back in the late seventies, he was a barely High School graduate hoping the bottling plant wasn’t going to start lay offs thanks to President Peanuts. Inflation and interest rates were double digits, he had no prospects of ever realizing the American Dream, The soviets were gobbling up the third world, the future only looked dark.
I'm the first one in my family to go to college, and I will be the first one since my great great grand father to serve my country in uniform. I have fears and anxieties about what if’s just like anyone that came before me and after me, but I have it easier and better then any other generation of my family or in this country ever had. I am truly blessed by God to be an American. Please don't blame the gobbledygook touchy feely PC crap they have been trying to indoctrinate my generation with on us. Because we hate it.