Posted on 03/21/2016 8:26:01 AM PDT by bryan999
Seventy years ago, there was “the greatest generation.” Later, Generation X became known as the slacker generation. Today, millennials are turning out to be the anxious generation.
Numerous recent studies have shown that millennials suffer from anxiety at a much higher rate than generations that preceded them. What’s wrong with kids these days?
A lot, actually. They’re the first generation raised with Internet. The first generation to experience “helicopter” parenting. They’re at once constantly exposed on social media but also permanently sheltered by overbearing parents. They’re not the first generation to experience a rough economy, but they certainly act as if they were.
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Nonsense. previous generations didn't measure for "anxiety" - nor did they try and turn everything into a political/government issue.
Freedom of Choice, is what you've got.
Freedom from Choice, is what you want.
-DEVO
They are going to inherit a society of more and more problems if something doesn’t change in the next couple years. It is sad. The country may be too far gone to ever be fixed.
The fist generation raised under a muslim enemy of Americaa as president.
The first generation to have a national debt of more than $160,000 per person.
The fist generation to be taught in schools an colleges that they have the right to not be offended in any way.
For one thing, most millenials have never been expected to win at anything. Products of trophies for everyone. And no, they are exposed to the real facts of life where you either produce(win) or get a failing grade for real.
And sadly, many of them have allowed themselves to be brainwashed into thinking the Donald Trump is somehow more dangerous than Hillary or ObaMao.
Millenials are over protected, woefully misinformed, pampered and spoiled. My 32 year old lib nephew was getting his hair washed in the kitchen sink by his Mother when he as 22. He moved out at age 28 after saving enough for a house. Never paid a nickel in rent. Never bought his own car.
On the other hand, I want the least amount of money to leave the "clan" as possible, paying rent gives money to another "clan."
More and more extended families are going to have to take this approach.
As my Mom used to say:
“We had the Great Depression and a World War that killed 50 million. Quit your whining.”
The blame lies with his mom.
Abundant choices are stressing these little snowflakes out, because they’re accustomed to adults making all the hard decisions for them. Good God, they’re so uber-sensitive they need “safe places” from even the mildest forms of criticism.
I used to hear the same thing. Pearls of experience-laden wisdom, there.
The composition of that demographic reflects many more people from the third world; their America will reflect that. See Detroit, Los Angles, Corpus Christi, Camden, Philadelphia, etc. for a glimpse of the future.
...needless to say, no military service, but was happy to watch the gals his age make multiple deployments overseas. I see so many of these types at YR meetings. It disgusts me.
In that book, there are four discrete generational archetypes (each having primacy for 20 of the 80 years). In the crisis phase, the generation that is in primacy are the so-called "nomads" who grew up in a protected world of relative peace and stability but are forced to mature into pragmatists who navigate society through a crappy crisis. Today that's GenX, back in WW2 it was Truman's generation - the one that preceded the "greatest generation". When the Nomads come to maturity when "Institutions are weak and distrusted, individualism is strong and flourishing". Seems about right, old institutions like the church and the government came to be viewed with skepticism and suspicion by GenX; my generation prefers to go it's own way for the most part. Whatever.
Per this theory the next generation (i.e. the "greatest Generation" of WW2 or the millennials of today) are the "heroes". Here's how they are described: "Heroes grow up as increasingly protected post-Awakening children, come of age as team-oriented young optimists during a Crisis, emerge as energetic, overly-confident midlifers, and age into politically powerful elders attacked by another Awakening."
Basically per this theory GenX is stuck living their best years in a crappy world that they get stuck fixing (admittedly using the millennials as the muscle to make it happen), then the millenials will take it and go forward in peace and prosperity until their own children start to think they are smarter and superior and start to ruin their lives.
So if you buy all that, be content to know that these smug millenials will be mocked and laughed at by their children like the boomers did to theirs.
His twin brother served 4 years Army. Went to Afghanistan.
“... permanently sheltered by overbearing parents...”
Now, not only parents, but government as well...In Rhode Island the parents can be fined and charged with a misdemeanor if their “child” goes over a certain distance from the home...
Heard this today on the news...
Of course it’s his Mothers fault. If I was given cars, food and lodging until I was 28, I would’ve taken my Mom up on it too.
Funny you should raise that point as I am more and more beginning to assume that view. My kids are not that old and they are just beginning to work. I have actually been framing things in much that same way.
The kids are healthy and will move out at the appropriate time, but strengthening the clan financially ultimately helps them long after Mr. and Mrs. Obadiah are gone.
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