The Children Are Our Future

27 Replies to “The Children Are Our Future”

1. Heh – Nailed it.

   1940’s – would have walked around the door jamb.
   1950’s – would have punched it.
   1960’s – would have blown a kiss, and tried to smoke it.

   1. And some from the short bus would try to lick it.

2. Nope the boomers would have pretty much acted the same way with no selfie but only because they can’t use cellphones. They’d then demand the government (aka following generations) pay to solve this “problem” in the most self centered way possible.

   1. I’m one boomer who takes issue with what you wrote and I’m sure I’m not alone. I was expected to grow up, pull my weight, and earn my keep.

      When I was 19, during my second undergraduate summer at an oil refinery, I had to because if I didn’t, I’d been run out of the plant. I had to carry my share of tools out into the units, haul welding cable to the top of a distillation column, and wear an air mask in a hazardous environment. If I didn’t the work couldn’t be done.

      I also had to put up with my share of abuse and insult and take it like a man.

   2. I disagree. I am a “boomer”, and if I had hit the wall, I would have blamed myself and made an oath to pay better attention. No demands to the government, no blame on anyone else, no anger, no determination of a “problem” that needed investigating. We were not absolute babies growing up. When we got knocked down, we picked ourselves up.

   3. Jimmy, we boomers would have paid attention, walked in the center of the door to avoid the contact, if navigation was low and contact was made, a mental note would have been made to not do that again.

      Or I would have renoed the door opening to make it an archway to accomodate my broad shoulders.

      1. I suspect that UnMe or AllanS might have mutated into a critter named Jimmy.

   4. I admit the Boomers are responsible for increasing the size of government, but so has every succeeding generation. We went from SS, welfare, and affirmative action to “free tuition”, “free healthcare”, “living wage”, “free housing” and “equity”. Judging by voting patterns future generations will be looking at you when they are wondering why 75% of the federal budget goes toward servicing the debt. (I doubt that this would happen. We would default before that.)

      1. No I disagree. What mutated the government into a giant blob was
         WWI
         Socialist reasponse to the1930s depression, making it even greater
         WWII
         Left propaganda in WWII which boosted the creation of the welfare state in the ’50s and ’60s.

         Thus, it was the two world wars that caused the bloated bureaucracies of benevolence (/sarc) of today.

         1. And of course the Civil War that shifted the balance of power to the Federal to make all that possible.

            By the time of the Great Society and the gutting of the American people’s wealth by the silver theft, not a single Boomer had reached voting age. They didn’t do anything to fix it, but they reached the age of power and authority after the system was already terminally broken.

            My chief complaint against Boomers (as a collective, not as individuals) is that they claim credit for doing things they only witnessed as children, so I suppose there’s a bit of karma in getting blamed for things they didn’t do.

   5. I, my siblings and numerous friends received the “stink eye” from our fathers when we turned 19. For those of you who do not know what a “stink eye” is, it is when your father constantly looks at you as you eat, with the expression of “When are you going to leave?” Some friends even received a set of luggage from their parents as a hint.
      Our youngest brother stayed until he was 23 when our parents announced that they had sold the house and were moving from Ottawa to Vancouver and that he, the youngest brother, was NOT coming with them.

   6. Boomer here:
      I have never called on guvamnent to fix my problems.
      I have however written many letters to guvament telling them to get out of my face!

3. I noticed something similar during the time I taught at Armpit College.

   1. Correct me if wrong.
      I do believe said video above is ” parody “.
      A brilliant one , there is hope for the youngsters , yet.

      1. It may be a parody, but I did notice a change in the work habits and attitudes of my students from when I started in the late 1980s until I quit nearly 20 years ago.

         1. I went back to uni in 2004 to upgrade my degree and the difference between 4th year CS students in 1997 and 2004 was stark, and that’s only < 10 years. When I was in 4th year, everyone was angling for a permanent post-grad job, planning to move to another country, or generally getting the business of being an independent adult started. In 2006, most of the 4th years I talked to had no plan beyond "I guess I'll move back in with my parents while I figure out what to do next" or "I guess I'll go to grad school". No initiative, no plan.

4. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps! Utter bs boomers. You could get a job out of high school and buy a house immediately. Now it’s impossible thanks to your policy of shipping every job overseas and importing third worlders to pay for your retirement. You’ve destroyed this country for your own selfish needs. We all hope you die having some non English speaking doctor screwing up your care.

   1. I take it you’re including boomers like me whose careers were destroyed in the wake of PET’s National Energy Program 4 decades ago and Mulroney’s ruinous policies a few years later.

      1. careers were destroyed in the wake of PET’s National Energy Program

         Goddam Trudeau. Never trust anyone born before 1920.

   2. Disagree entirely. If you have any type of skills in the Midwest you are guaranteed a good job. There are thousands of carpenter, plumber, electrician, machinist, auto mechanic, and truck driving jobs that go unfilled.
      Had a business friend who had to fire a new employee from $70K/yr job because he would not show up for work, or showed up hung over.

   3. Irony – James defending Millennials against the trope of being soft wristed sooks who complain about everything… by being a limb wristed sook complaining about everything.

      Tell you what, James. Why don’t you make an effort to not repeat the mistakes of the past? Live in poverty so that your grandchildren get to live in a new golden age where ‘your generation’ didn’t take all the good jobs.

      Go on. You don’t want the kids of 2050 screaming abuse at you, do you?

   4. TheCuban wants 400,000 welfare cases a year.. Where the F do you find housing for 400,00 unemployables in 5 years let alone one year.

      1. The Streets of San Franciso.

   5. @james

      Yea, the “Boomers” were also the Hippies as well as the later 80’s Wall Street preppies. It’s hard for Gen X to disassociate Boomers from selfish brats that had the whole world handed to them and they f*cked it for everyone else.

      The truth is not all Boomers were those selfish self indulgent people, but unfortunately a very large segment of society was, and still is, and will never see their faults. GenX can see it because GenX suffered the greatest fallout during those formative years you mentioned.

      The rise of Globalism and Open Borders is an indirect attack on today’s society that was born of the Boomers – Aka Trudeau and ilk.

5. I was born in 1970 but if I ran into that door today-2022-I’d likely hurt my shoulder.
   I wouldn’t blame anyone but me but I’d have a cokencrown to dull the old age pain

   When I was 20 I doubt I’d notice. Some of the crap I did……. Occupational health and safety has come a lone way in the power line trade I’ll say that.

6. I am a little older than the boomers and I have walked into shit before, sometimes my fault, sometimes not.

7. I am a boomer. After reading the thread, I have to ask why we are helping those who seek to divide us? I have two millenial kids and love both. If they have character flaws, I have to accept some of the responsibility or I am being hypocritical. This is because the quack community convinced most boomers that their parents messed them up and that we needed to rebel by becoming wasteful dope-smoking welfare bum hippies until we woke up in the 80s. We also voted ourselves the most benefits of any generation that will need to be paid for by future generations. As for millenials, they have also benefitted from the wealthiest time in human history and do not understand how that happened. However, millenials have become the prey of a perverted academia that we boomers never tried in earnest to stop. I know several millienials that are showing leadership the right way and they give me hope. Several serve in western democracy military forces and are stellar people. Some are learning to take responsibility after being under assault just for their gender. Specifically, young men. They are taking action in growing numbers and are listening to the likes of Jordan Peterson. Stop the generational circular firing squad.