Posted on 09/13/2021 2:27:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
As a college professor for over 35 years, I’ve gotten to know three generations of students: Gen Y (born between 1965 and 1980), the Millennials (1981-1996), and now Gen Z (1997-2012). And because I teach rhetoric, I’ve read thousands of their papers, providing substantial insight into the way they think.
To be sure, each generation has had its share of good kids and bright minds. In general, however, I found that Millennials presented unique challenges. They were, as a group, the most entitled, judgmental, and arrogant of all the students I’ve taught, often basing an inflated sense of self-importance on scanty evidence.
Essentially, they are the “participation trophy” generation, the unwitting victims of countless artificial “self-esteem building” experiments by the education establishment, not to mention their own parents. These are the kids who were told from kindergarten on how special they were—and, unfortunately, they believed it.
Their essays and verbal comments were characterized by poor reasoning, shoddy arguments, and the elevation of pathos over logos, along with a deep-seated, quasi-religious certitude. Apparently, they felt no need to support their positions with evidence. They were right simply because of who they were: the smartest kids ever. Hadn’t their parents and teachers always told them so?
I’m generalizing, of course. As I said, I had some excellent students during those years, including many I still keep in touch with. Nevertheless, what I just described is reasonably accurate, based on my experiences with thousands of Millennials.
Thus, I have not been surprised to see what’s happening in our country right now, with those “kids” in charge of government, industry, education, and most other aspects of life. Given what I observed among my Millennial college students, today’s post-rational, fact-free culture, with its toxic mix of ignorance,
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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Impeach 46.
My experience with Gen Z does not match the author’s experience with Gen Z.
As a Gen Z, I think he is correct, however, we know we don’t have the answers. We need to get the facts.
The heck? 65-80 were always Gen X.. Are they changing the stupid ‘rules’ of this stuff now?
of course!! spider man will save us!!
Mine does. My son is 26 and I know a lot of his friends well since most of them lost their fathers to death or divorce and see me as a surrogate to come to for advice.
This analysis is completely accurate to the ones I talk to. They are definitely libertarian on personal issues (which is why they HATE a vaccine passport and other policies like it) and they are purely interested in fact-based solutions. They HATE partisanship on EITHER side.
Gen Z? Hmmm . . . . https://www.patburt.com/
49 For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name.50 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
(Luke 1:49,50)
What the author describes is just a smoother death.
He say they are Libetarians who embrace transgenderism and homosexuality and “want to live life to the fullest”.
Only societies which protect the family will survive. He describes these kids as anything but that.
Thought same thing. We only survive on persistent pursuit of faith, family, and nation. I for sure have a libertarian streak in me, but it has no chance against commies.
You’re correct, and that’s an error on the author’s part.
Yes we are Gen X. Gen Y was the name of the Millennials at first.
Exactly. Any college professor who does not know that Gen Y = Millineals is not worth the attention span.
I stopped reading after the first sentence.
The college professor needs a Bible.
Now, we need to get back to the other FACT-based truths:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
If folks are convinced they've been evolved, instead of created, then the whole foundation of this nation crumbles.
While the government of this nation desperately tries to force EQUALITY upon us all, it steals the Life from nearly 25% before they have a chance to be born.
It takes away our Liberty, and removes from us the ability to PURSUE Happiness.
Ecclesiastes 12:1-5
1 Remember your Creator
in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble come
and the years approach when you will say,
“I find no pleasure in them”—
2 before the sun and the light
and the moon and the stars grow dark,
and the clouds return after the rain;
3 when the keepers of the house tremble,
and the strong men stoop,
when the grinders cease because they are few,
and those looking through the windows grow dim;
4 when the doors to the street are closed
and the sound of grinding fades;
when people rise up at the sound of birds,
but all their songs grow faint;
5 when people are afraid of heights
and of dangers in the streets;
when the almond tree blossoms
and the grasshopper drags itself along
and desire no longer is stirred.
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