Millennials aren’t all terrible, society has detested young people for centuries

iNews ^ | Fran Yeoman

[Trillian]

It’s not an age thing. I just detest the stupid.

[Fresh Wind]

“Why couldn’t they be like we were, perfect in every way
What’s the matter with kids today?”

[nickcarraway]

Mommy’s all right
Daddy’s all right
They just seem a little weird

[dfwgator]

Young Man Blues - The Who

Oh, well, a young man
Ain’t got nothin’ in the world these days
I said a young man
Ain’t got nothin’ in the world these days

Well, you know in the old days
When a young man was a strong man
All the people, they’d step back
When a young man walked by

But you know, nowadays
It’s the old man
He’s got all the money
And a young man ain’t got nothin’ in the world these days
I said
Ain’t got nothing
Got sweet nothing

[Gene Eric]

Millennials are mocked by those younger.

[EC Washington]

The past “bad” generations did not have Facebook and twitter - I work with Millennials and they drive me crazy. They refuse to listen to people my age and instead goggle everything before they believe it. If their I-Phone told them to jump off a tall bridge they would be over the hand rail in a second. This is a different bunch from past generations.

[ransomnote]

What I noticed is that Millenials have abandoned civility because a) they feel oppressed by requests for mannerly conduct b) they feel weakened by considering other’s feelings and c) they demand anything goes in the commons because you can leave if you don’t like it - they’ll just log onto their phone apps and chat with “better” people all over the world.
Can’t have a conversation without a 25 year old woman unless full frontal profanity is in play - anything else is limiting and you’d be advised to remember there is no such thing as profanity or social considerations if they say there isn’t.

[Oztrich Boy]

Kids! What the devil’s wrong with these kids today? Kids! Who could guess the they would turn out that way! Why can’t they be like we were,. Perfect in every way

[hinckley buzzard]

These articles come out periodically, in an attempt to mislead the public into complacency. The issue is not that every generation has despaired of the “young.” The issue is that the current adult generation or maybe two have deliberately neglected and subverted the societal process of enculturating the young.

Remember the “copybook headings” immortalized by Kipling. The proverbs of Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac. The Northwest Ordinance enshrined universal education as a responsibility of the new republic, and its goal was explicitly to produce moral and responsible citizens for the Nation.The series of McGuffey Readers inculcated JudeoChristian ethics into reading and writing assignments. Through the fifties, despite the predations of Dewey’s “Progressive education,” patriotism was considered a civic good that went without saying.

All these things, and others as well, including a consensus about respect for religious observance, have been systematically attacked by the Marxist project. The destruction of civic education and organized religion have been their greatest achievements. The destruction of the family is a close second or third, still in process. Obliteration of history has begun.

It is idle to blame the snowflakes for being the way they are, when they are only what the “institutions” have made them.

What is different now, as a result, is this: previous generations grew up, came of age and found their way back. Too many of the recent generations have begun to leave orbit, and not come back.

[jmacusa]

I think what happened was we won the war but lost the peace.