Posted on 08/13/2013 7:04:15 AM PDT by Publius804
We once sang about hoping to die before we got old, but quite a few of my fellow baby boomers have begun to sound like a cross between 1960s sitcom crank Granny Clampett and the 1980s SNL Church Lady when it comes to our kids' generation.
I've heard some in my age group lament that the millennials refuse to grow up. I've eavesdropped few remarks like, "Back when I was my son's age, I had a decent job and a mortgage. But you can't get a mortgage on a barista's salary. Come to think of it, back when I was my son's age, none of us knew what a barista was."
That grousing may fuel some lively discussion, especially if you're among people who enjoy a good handwringing session about the sorry state of affairs in our world, but the pride embedded in our insistence that we did life better in our good ol' days is counterproductive. And it's simply not true.
At midlife, we're tempted to throw a rose-colored tint on the rearview mirror so that when we glance backwards, we remember only the best of our own youthful glory days. To give into this temptation transforms us into people who start sounding like Old Economy Steve: "I never had trouble finding a job when I was 21. If the kids today would just apply themselves…"
So let's talk reality. Today's young adults go through their own glory days with crushing student loan debt and a severe recession that continues to affect those entering the job market for the first time.
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This next generation is being raised by sheep in Disney-style wolf’s clothing. A faux-sensible program administered by helicopter parents, hovering near and never allowing the kids to develop along normal lines, playing “cops and robbers” or real competition in sports.
Nobody fails, and nobody really becomes competent.
I weep for the coming Age of Darkness. What was the lesson of the Babylonian captivity, again?
“MTV, public schools, and Howard Stern.”
Today, You Tube, public schools, hip-hop.
A hundred years ago ragtime was seen as the demons music do you know anyone who still thinks that?
history goes in cycles
Though not all.
Good news, plenty of private schools, homeschooling based kids. Take confort.
Coming age of darkness? We are here...oh and the Boomers style of “folksy worship” in churches stinks too....
Most people don’t go to college, so what’s with this constant whining about student loan debt? Young people...grow up, grt to work, struggle. That’s life. Oh, yes...stop voting for LIBs.
“As one at the tailend of that generation,(1959), I have at times been embaressed by the antics of my generation.”
I was too young to have been drafted or volunteer for service in Vietnam. I wasn’t old enough to vote For Carter in ‘76, I voted for Reagan in ‘80, I never participated in any protest or antiwar demonstration in the 60’s or ‘70s, I never saw Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin or Jim Morrison in concert. So why should I consider myself a “Baby Boomer” when I have so little in common with so many of them?
Then there are those of us who will have much less influence because the job situation is causing a child to move 7 hours away with her two small children due to the job situation. She and her husband will have better jobs, but I will not be attending my youngest grandson’s first birthday this year.
The job my husband was forced to take a few years ago gives him a whooping two weeks per year vacation time.
Yes, I blame Obama.
Thank-you for making my day.
You’re so welcome!
You’re right.
Thankfully liberal Christian faith is dying away, replaced by those churches who take both the faith as well as the Bible SERIOUS.
Well that will be the seeds of the next civilization because this one is dying quickly and there is no hope for last minute recovery...
Bullcrap. The oldest boomers turned 20 in '65. If "you didn't build that" was ever a true saying, it was about boomers and the post-WW2 prosperity.
Some of what we built ended up being helpful, productive, and good. And some of it has left a scattered jigsaw puzzle of a world for our children to try to decode.
That's an interesting way to describe the vapid moral climate that boomers fostered. Now with my kids, I have to be very careful about the proliferation of drugs, socialism, and free sex they've glorified aloud since the 60's.
We are left in the middle. No one cares.
Which is ok. If you read the old book “The Fourth Turning”, we are the Nomads. In other words, the ones who make the hard choices to get stuff done.
“history goes in cycles”
I look at it this way-
History as a timeline illustrates that every generation’s complaints about “succeeding” generations are probably valid and the effects are cumulative, however fortunate or unfortunate.
No, it's an accelerating decay.
I have a lot more hope. Got to remember that with a bigtime growing Christian south, look for missionaries from that part of the world to send missionaries to do their part for the “new evangelization.”
These are the same countries the USA and the west had sent.
No, cycles.
Can you tell me of a generation in the past 100 years that’s more moral and harder working that the previous? If not, it’s a decay, not a cycle.
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