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How Not to Become a Millennial: Learning from America’s Largest Sociological Disaster Never before in the history of the world has more time, effort, and resources been invested into a single generation than the Millennials. Be it incredibly expensive college degrees, perfectly privileged diets, life-coping drugs, uncountable therapist visits, even bending reality so that everybody was impossibly a winner, no expense was spared for the most pampered generation in human history. |
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well.
that takes the pressure of my hippie generation.
lol !!!
civil rights: check
women’s rights: check
opposed the disastrously managed war in ‘Nam: check
moon landing: check
long hair: check
weed: check
Jimi Hendrix: check
not necessarily in order of priority
Moon landing? C’mon that was piloted by silents, managed by the greatest generation under lost generation presidents. The 23 and under crowd got to watch. Oldest boomers were just 18 for the ’64 civil rights act.
I can’t tell if you are being ironic on purpose or not, but it’s amusing to juxtapose what the book actually says about boomers, millennials, weed and the moon landing and your comment. That said, I think it’s funny that the Silents are still fighting tooth and nail to get their first president (Sanders, Biden, Bloomberg, Pelosi) and that some of the worst mummies in the houses are silents like Pelosi. I have long thought the Silents were remarkable at producing profound greats like Armstrong and profoundly selfish and destructive people, like Biden. I also wonder if Gen X will ever have a president.
It’s possible Trump will be the Boomer parting shot at America and that is both wonderful and ironic in it’s own way. The cultural momentum post Greatest Gen, that has brought us such great things as TDS and Trannies is being fought and undone by an early Boomer (and the deplorables). He may yet get us to pull off something as great as the moon landing. May we have 8 more years! and all will be forgiven. Heh. As for the millennials, they still have a lot of runway. Let’s see how they are in the 5th term of Trump.
migawd I would have given a fortune to meet Neil Armstrong in person.
the irony of it, he was such a private man. shunned the razzle dazzle, didnt write a book, none of the usual celeb stuff.
“one small step for man”.
methinks he kept the ‘a’ OUT of ‘a man’ thru a deeply set belief in TEAMWORK, and thus refused to put the spot lite on ‘a’ man, ie himself. completely consistent with the impression I have of this great servant of the nation and humanity.
the irony there too. crikey if the whole team had HIS skill level we would have space exploration of an unimaginable degree.
I watched it all live on a smidgy B&W in my parents kitchen.
and yes, a wee bit of deliberate irony there. your post is very insightful.
unlike the ‘inciteful’ crowd we have to navigate around nowadays.
I call them the ‘narcissist generation’.
There are few famous people I’d walk to the end of the driveway to see. Fewer still I’d want to dine with. Armstrong would have been an honor to meet or see.
What I remember about the greatest generation and kids is how they had a kind of universal pact. Kids were to respect elders so any adult could correct a kid and childhood was to be protected from adult issues. There were bed times, TV changed from family friendly to adult late in the evening. Adults made a point of not discussing worldly things in front of kids. I don’t know but I suspect it was a reaction to the horrors and hard child hoods of their generation. WWI and Spanish flu took their parents and the depression made them pull their weight early. My own grandfather spent time in “Mrs Lizzies orphanage & lunatic asylum”. Oh yah it gets better. The orphans were sent out to work. We only found out after he died (from his residence on the cencus). At the end of the day giving the kids the polar opposite of their childhood didn’t work either. Balance has yet to be achieved, as Gen X was left to raise its self, shielded from nothing. The millennials are living in the wreckage. Both sheltered and exposed raw. They have conversations like “I don’t know how many siblings I have”. Does step sister’s step’s step count? Who knows, they might just make it from mom mom mon and dad’s Orphanage and Lunatic Asylum to achieve something great should the opportunity present.
the moon landing was accomplished by literal nazis. LOL
The Millennials are the Generation born when the self-help book craze was ongoing. Cause or Co-incidence ?
The millennials are the generation raised by boomers. Cause or co-incidence?
Blame should be on so many boomers for not raising their millennials.
The Millennials are the Generation born to the Drug Generation….The Grey matter burnout is said to regenerate over Time…. They may, not all, be a waste of sperm…..
Thanks to Millenial voting patterns, it is doubtful there will be a long time before there are enough resources available to dedicate to such mistakes.
Have You wondered why it took A NON — Washington Sewer President as was elected by Middle – America’s newest Greatest Generation established by the ‘Tea Baggers’?
Why has Mr. President Donald J. Trump moved the Middle-East discussions between the Oil Oligarchs, ___ [ plus trying to bring the incredible opposition from the only Refugee Situation which has allowed Three & Four generations of Refugees to remain in place__ under the abusive control of Terrorist Group(s) ] into discussions with Israel?
Reason is the deliberate use of Seven Decades of the Progressive-Socialist-Communist-Fascist; interplay of using the Isreali’s — Read Jews — continue being the Scapegoats of the “Old-World” Aristocracy remaining below the radar of awareness by the Establishment ownership of Media.—- Please Note—- One late comer to the Establishment of the World and a True Hero as well as an Aware Investor — Founder of Fox News*__ Rupert Murdoch __
Bernie Sanders has been a ‘Useful Tool’ of the various progressive meme which is in current mode of the Establishment trying & failing so Far; to destroy the WE THE PEOPLE … Sovereign Ordinary Average People – S.O.A.P. – maintaining the “Great Experiment ” for over Two Centuries. Bernie is a well practiced Minion Orator as well as the False Prophet of __ We want to give the wealth earned by skill and effort to buy votes.
*Hopefully the next Generation of Murdoch prove to be as Wise and Ethical within the Power of this Era of Changing Communication. Viable Social Contracts are dependent on their effort.
Individual freedom and the necessity to actually work and produce a profit that pays for your daily bread has been lost in Canada, trough lickers is all we have, the government trough is the most popular restaurant in Canada.
ha ha ha !!!
never saw it described as a restaurant.
ha ha ha !!!!
who pays the tab?
ha ha ha !!!
We now see the proof.
If you want more useless and clueless,then coddle and protect them.
Now we have success.
So many useless and clueless that civilization falls.
More beer and popcorn.
The question an entire generation can not answer;”How’s your work?”
If the millenials were born to the boomers they were very late running pipe, I’m a last year boomer and my spawn are all called echoes
Oh man this should be great reading. Who raised the millenials? Or more to the point…. Who DIDN’T raise the millennials? Oh sure let’s totally fail at any meaningful civilizational advancements and blame it on our children… hmmmmmm?