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Random thought: Millennials might wind up as the most disliked generation.
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While this is all true, it's in the nature of Gen X to go invisible and dodge it for as long as possible. And it's in the Millennial nature to become the hated old folks as early as possible.
In fact, Millennials will become the hated old folks BEFORE Gen X.
In fact, that's the case right now lol.
I dunno about hated, but the Gen Z kids I know do see Millennials in a "They correctly identified the problems but whined about them instead of dealing with them" light. What remains to be seen is if Gen Z will make good on that judgment and crack the problems with useful solutions or whether they too will hit the wall of systemic injustice and slowly slide down it like Wile E. Coyote, as the Millennials did.
Yeah, this.
I mean, I guess it could be because I was born pretty close to whatever's considered to be the transition from one generation to the next, but having hung out with people that are both 8-9 years older and younger than me, I feel like they're really all the same. The generational divide between the two feels extremely forced to me, so this kind of back-and-forth antagonism comes off like a sibling rivarly.
Ehh Millennials like boomers are a big generation and the older half do align up with GenX ideals.
This checks out.
I do find it comforting though in knowing that no matter how much someone else hates me, it is not as much as I hate myself.
And I wouldn't have it any other way. :D
But yeah, I mean mostly from boomers; we got plenty of shit back then, believe me. We were coming of age when computers started becoming ubiquitous and the Internet became a thing; the culture shock was staggering for them and they needed someone to blame for the world suddently becoming incomprehensible to them. Of course, once new generations appeared that had grown up with computers and internet as kids and were even more tech-savvy and inscrutable to them (not to mention in more vulnerable positions and less likely to fight back), they switched targets.
I think this internet feud has just reaffirmed my belief that both millennials and zoomers are equally annoying as fuck
Like our hate of boomers is. All generational animosity is bull shit and aggrieved people find reasons to feel like it's valid. My point is that millennials are bound to become the new boomers. Gen X will still be the perpetual middle child. And in time, whatever some new future generation is will complain about whoever the up and coming generation is today.
About my previous point about power brokering, though, millennials are already the largest voting bloc by generation, with 2020 being the first generation that baby boomers had been surpassed as the largest generation since ~1992.
Millennials approach Baby Boomers as America’s largest generation in the electorate
As of November 2016, an estimated 62 million Millennials were voting-age U.S. citizens – moving closer in number to the 70 million Baby Boomers.www.pewresearch.org
(this was from 2018 but the projection became true, I just can't find a 2021 article about it)
Not really, at least not to the extent that Millennials have been. While there's truth to the idea that generational animosity is all manufactured to some degree, the reality is that things like mass deregulation, escalated climate change, etc. were driven by those in the boomer generation when they rose to power in key positions and, by and large, those in that generation still hold those positions because they systemically weighted the system to where only they could continue holding that power. Even if this part about Millennials being a bigger voting bloc is true, that isn't important. It's about who has the most voting power, and that is still weighed more in line with boomers since boomers have more presence and larger voting populations in the disproportionate rural areas and less populated states that hold more voting sway.
I mean, I get the reaction to what to say it's all bullshit or whatever. And obviously there is a large part of generalization here (not all Boomers, not all Millennials, yadda yadda), but the reality is that the boomer generation had far more negative impact on the world with how their generation wielded, and continues to wield power to this day, and Millennials had vast marketing campaigns done by right-wing think tanks to demonize them, something that previous generations never really had, at least not to the wide reaching effects that's possible now. That's just simple fact. It's easy to try and turn into a 'both sides' thing, but it's more complicated than the easy, 'well, every generation hates every generation' stuff that makes everyone feel woke and comfortable or whatever.
It's not, Zoomers are dunking on Millennials but it's mostly culture it's not nearly the same at all. Boomers are the hated generation now and guess what, Millennials don't love Gen X either. Once more Zoomers get a bit older and Gen X are the 60 something year-old senators, and CEO's the Zoomers will come for them. RIght now it's easier to make fun of Millennials because they understand us and our references, Gen X is too old for them to even make fun of because their shit's not online or interesting.
Such is the way of things, progress sort of demands that an improved generation rejects and dislikes the ones which came prior. The Alphas will come for the Zoomers, the Betas the Alphas so on and so on
Avocado toast and harry potter are the same dumb cultural bullshit that every preceding generation has been mocked for. Same song, different words.
Boomers, fair or not, are going to always be finger pointed for facilitating, accelerating and consciously impeding any attempt to mitigate the global climate destruction of the planet.
Boomers, fair or not, are going to always be finger pointed for facilitating, accelerating and consciously impeding any attempt to mitigate the global climate destruction of the planet.
Listen to this:
Citations Needed: Episode 38: The Media's Bogus Generation Obsession
“Baby Boomers are bloating the social safety net!” “GenXers are changing the nature of work!” “Millennials are killing the housing market!". The media endlessly feeds us stories about how one generation or another is engaging in some collective act of moral failing that, either explicitly or by...citationsneeded.libsyn.com
This is not to say they are generational patterns, but we're still more complex than generations and it hurts real change.
It's a smoke screen to more critical issues.
I don't disagree, but we're talking about different things. The media definitely pushes generation wars nonsense, but the idea of a cultural divide between generations is based in truth.
I don't see Millennials being particularly hostile to Gen X in reality, no matter what nonsense appears in those articles.
The entire Millennial generation seems like they have arrested development. It is really bizarre.
Milennials are 40 lol. I think people keep thinking Millennials are 20 year old kids.
They're inheriting a dying planet and hopelessly broken nations. Of course they're angry at everyone older than them
My point stands. I had a 36 year old dude ask me how to change a tire a few weeks ago.
The thing you need to understand is this is all a function of time. Most of my high school mates were left leaning, thought of themselves as revolutionaries, dreamed to change the world to make it fair, went to demonstrations against the government, etc. Then they got married, settled down, had kids, got traditional jobs (or even became entrepreneurs with employees of their own).
Literally the same guy that chastised people when were teens for not attending a public demonstration in support of the government using a percentage of taxes to end poverty, told me a few months ago that he fired one of his employees because she had used swear words (in a private environment, mind). It's depressing but it's true; almost everyone shifts conservative over time. I swore that it wouldn't happen to me, and for the most part it didn't, but very few of the people I know from back them fared well in that regard; you need an open mind, and continuous vigilance, self-examination and self-updating.
I didn't realize this was a serious thread that needed claims to be backed up.
But - most gen z I've seen online lean more right then millenials - and gen z didn't enter the work for in a recession.
I don't pay attention to many social media sites or trends in the first place, so I have no basis for this discussion. Otherwise, I couldn't care less what other generations think. I can't help them if our generation is occupying their ire with their memes and jokes; come up with better material then.
Gen X isn't jealous of Pokemon and Harry Potter. We had Super Mario Bros. and Empire Strikes Back.
That's just a bullshit to justify acting like a entitled asshole. If it's not that then it's "because it's funny" or some other thinly veiled excuse. There have been youth movements in every single generation and GenZ is not anything special. They are just another overconsuming generation that needlesly tries to rebel against everyone else instead of actually doing something productive. And that's really disappointing because they are the first young generation with actual global voice and they just waste it to vain and ignorant bickering.
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I've thought about this before and I think a lot of it has to do with growing up in a period of major, unprecedented levels of technological transition that neither our preceding or succeeding generations knew or will ever know. We still use words like doggo and adulting because we are the kid generation. That world existed only for us and we never had a place in the world our parents knew, and are displaced in the world that our kids and nieces and nephews are growing up in.
Normally I tend to hyper focus on shit to be more likable but I genuinely can't bring myself to care about this beyond the memes.
To anyone that does care I hope you start preparing for when you're the generational face of the climate disaster for our collective inaction.
To anyone that does care I hope you start preparing for when you're the generational face of the climate disaster for our collective inaction.
So will millennials. And every other generation. The cycle of bitching and finger pointing will not be broken, lol.
they do. but it's not bizarre. that's the hand dealt
Millennials Don’t Stand a Chance
They’re facing a second once-in-a-lifetime downturn at a crucial moment.
www.theatlantic.com
Generation Screwed
Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression.
highline.huffingtonpost.com
I gotta be honest, words like adulting and doggo, along with Harry Potter, all kind of blow. So gen Z is onto something.
