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Oh boy! Another well-written and carefully-reasoned piece from the NY Post! What a crock of shit. There's always been social cachet available for people willin
by angersock 10y ago
Oh boy! Another well-written and carefully-reasoned piece from the NY Post!
What a crock of shit. There's always been social cachet available for people willing to piss on their own generation; this is neither novel nor particularly well executed.
- jeffwass 10y ago"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint". Hesiod, 8th century BC [Edit - possibly a mis-attributed quote according to wikiquote]
- fattire 10y agoAgreed. My favorite quote was "In some ways I love being a millennial, because it’s so much easier to be better than the rest of our generation" I can't tell if this statement supports or contradicts the rest of the article, but regardless, this bears watching again... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HFwok9SlQQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HFwok9SlQQ The generational pile-on goes back and is pretty meaningless.
- dalke 10y agoA double crock even - I'm a slacker member of Generation X. I'm used to being ignored by Boomers, who think our arts and culture were nothing like the glory of the 1960s. But this article doesn't even acknowledge we exist! It characterizes Millennials as: "entitlement, dependency, nonstop complaining, laziness, Kardashians" Except for the last, those are our stereotypes. Joking aside, there's indeed nothing novel. People in the 1940s make the same complaint about the youth of their time; who expected everything to be given to them on a silver platter.