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We don't need to engage in inter-generational griefing. Yeah, my parents had a much nicer economy but it's not like they are in a great place now and they did n

We don't need to engage in inter-generational griefing. Yeah, my parents had a much nicer economy but it's not like they are in a great place now and they did not build the systems we find ourselves trapped within today. The shortness of vision can't really be blamed on any one generation. It's a collective human failure.

draw_down 7y ago
I think it’s ok to acknowledge that previous generations are leaving behind a world which, in important respects, is worse than the one they inherited. All our rhetoric and the basic structure of our society assumes the reverse. On the other hand, if you’re Chinese you may not feel this way.
n0rbwah 7y ago
I think it's just a few individuals of each generations that are responsible for most of the world's ills while the others were either just trying to survive or thinking "there's not much I can do about it, let's just try to have a decent life". Millenials are just at that age where their generation can start having an influence on the world. So they can still blame most of the world's ills on boomers. In 40 years, young people will blame millenials the same way boomers are blamed today. Because millenials will be the latest active representatives of a generation where a few abused their positions of power and made the world a worse place than it was.
- foxyv 7y ago
  Don't worry, they already are. For some reason a little puke was claiming I was responsible for a policy that was created by a president when I was 5 years old. I think he was just looking for an excuse to say OK boomer and didn't care I was born in the mid 80s.
ggm 7y ago
We don't need to engage in inter-generational griefing Why not? A huge amount of post WW1 was about precisely that: generals trained for war on horseback, leading men into mechanised warfare. The 'never again' peace movement was a reaction. (wrong headed maybe, but this is how I believe it happened: it was inter-generational griefing.) The EU exists because a generation of new voters emerged from the ashes of WW2 and said 'we're not going back there' -The election of the Atlee Labour government was the generation who fought WW2 saying "no" to churchill, from the generation who fought WW1 and the Boer war. Inter-generational griefing is routine, normal and I would suggest neccessary. The succeeding generations have to seize control of the agenda, and stop the prior generations over-reaching their stated goals.

draw_down 7y ago

I think it’s ok to acknowledge that previous generations are leaving behind a world which, in important respects, is worse than the one they inherited. All our rhetoric and the basic structure of our society assumes the reverse. On the other hand, if you’re Chinese you may not feel this way.

n0rbwah 7y ago

I think it's just a few individuals of each generations that are responsible for most of the world's ills while the others were either just trying to survive or thinking "there's not much I can do about it, let's just try to have a decent life". Millenials are just at that age where their generation can start having an influence on the world. So they can still blame most of the world's ills on boomers. In 40 years, young people will blame millenials the same way boomers are blamed today. Because millenials will be the latest active representatives of a generation where a few abused their positions of power and made the world a worse place than it was.

foxyv 7y ago
Don't worry, they already are. For some reason a little puke was claiming I was responsible for a policy that was created by a president when I was 5 years old. I think he was just looking for an excuse to say OK boomer and didn't care I was born in the mid 80s.

ggm 7y ago

We don't need to engage in inter-generational griefing Why not? A huge amount of post WW1 was about precisely that: generals trained for war on horseback, leading men into mechanised warfare. The 'never again' peace movement was a reaction. (wrong headed maybe, but this is how I believe it happened: it was inter-generational griefing.) The EU exists because a generation of new voters emerged from the ashes of WW2 and said 'we're not going back there' -The election of the Atlee Labour government was the generation who fought WW2 saying "no" to churchill, from the generation who fought WW1 and the Boer war. Inter-generational griefing is routine, normal and I would suggest neccessary. The succeeding generations have to seize control of the agenda, and stop the prior generations over-reaching their stated goals.