Editorial on the Millennial Generation.

[Ibanez]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/09/opinion/b ... ?hpt=hp_c4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It's pretty good.

[ASUG8]

Hmm....Ibanez, a Millennial, starting a thread to draw attention to the attention whore Millennials.


"Look at meeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[Ibanez]

Hmm....Ibanez, a Millennial, starting a thread to draw attention to the attention whore Millennials.


"Look at meeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Hey old man! Zip it or i'll steal your walker.

[ASUG8]

What do you want? A trophy?

[Ibanez]

What do you want? A trophy?

I could use a nap. I'm so tired.

[Grizalltheway]

What do you want? A trophy?

I could use a nap. I'm so tired.

Go for it.

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[DSUrocks07]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/09/opinion/b ... ?hpt=hp_c4

It's pretty good.

I'm glad he used pictures and graphics. As a borderline millenia, I don't think I had the attention span to read and entire article.

tl;dr OMG picturs!!!1!!1

[Ibanez]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/09/opinion/b ... ?hpt=hp_c4

It's pretty good.

I'm glad he used pictures and graphics. As a borderline millenia, I don't think I had the attention span to read and entire article.

tl;dr OMG picturs!!!1!!1

What is "tl;dr?"

[Grizalltheway]

I'm glad he used pictures and graphics. As a borderline millenia, I don't think I had the attention span to read and entire article.

tl;dr OMG picturs!!!1!!1

What is "tl;dr?"

too long; didn't read.

[Ivytalk]

I read it. Cute. Trite, but cute.

[Ibanez]

I read it. Cute. Trite, but cute.

There is a lot of truth. Every generation has it's undesirables. Every generation inherits some sort of mess.

[JohnStOnge]

What's true at any given time is that young people think they know a whole lot more than they actually do and also think that they're going through things nobody has ever gone through before. In superficial sense they are but not in a substantial sense. And when a person gets to be older they realize that. They realize that when it comes to the really important stuff older people are generally wiser. And they know that all the stuff they thought older people didn't understand when they were young was stuff the older people had already been through and understood a lot better than they did.

Anybody who is relatively old knows that if you could take your 50 or 60 year old brain with all its experience back in time and put it in your 18, 20, or 30 year old body you would do a whole lot better and make a lot better decisions.

But there's no convincing young people of that. They have to go ahead and go through the process of getting older to realize it.

[Ibanez]

What's true at any given time is that young people think they know a whole lot more than they actually do and also think that they're going through things nobody has ever gone through before. In superficial sense they are but not in a substantial sense. And when a person gets to be older they realize that. They realize that when it comes to the really important stuff older people are generally wiser. And they know that all the stuff they thought older people didn't understand when they were young was stuff the older people had already been through and understood a lot better than they did.

Anybody who is relatively old knows that if you could take your 50 or 60 year old brain with all its experience back in time and put it in your 18, 20, or 30 year old body you would do a whole lot better and make a lot better decisions.

But there's no convincing young people of that. They have to go ahead and go through the process of getting older to realize it.

The problem also lies in the fact that older people THINK they know more and better simply because they are older. Therefore, they discount anything that a younger person says or suggests. The generation gap. Youth doesn't make us wrong any more than older age makes you right.

[Chizzang]

Each generation should decide for itself what's meaningful and important
Each generation should work to disregard previous dogmas and idolatry piled on top of society from previous generations

I'm closing in on 50 years old (jeezus where did the time go)
and I can only hope that the new generations dismiss our bullsh!t and create their own

[LeadBolt]

Older people know more than they did when they were younger due to their life experiences, however that doesn't mean that they know more or less than anyone else.

The article points out some of the general experiential differences and attitudes of this generation, which apply to some and not to others of the generation.

The article is trite, but contains both general information and prejudice, by its nature.

I would be a better person if I could combine my 60 year old brain with my 20 year old body, but that isn't happening. I have what I have and they have what they have.

I do appreciate the old saw that if you aren't liberal in your youth, you don't have much of a heart and if you aren't conservative in your older years, you don't have much of a brain.

As for creating your own bs, we all do it and we all have to cope with what came before, it has happened from the beginning of time and will continue to the end.

[AZGrizFan]

I read it. Cute. Trite, but cute.

There is a lot of truth. Every generation has it's undesirables. Every generation inherits some sort of mess.

Dude is 30 years old. Time to grow up and join the real world.

[AZGrizFan]

Older people know more than they did when they were younger due to their life experiences, however that doesn't mean that they know more or less than anyone else.

The article points out some of the general experiential differences and attitudes of this generation, which apply to some and not to others of the generation.

The article is trite, but contains both general information and prejudice, by its nature.

I would be a better person if I could combine my 60 year old brain with my 20 year old body, but that isn't happening. I have what I have and they have what they have.

I do appreciate the old saw that if you aren't liberal in your youth, you don't have much of a heart and if you aren't conservative in your older years, you don't have much of a brain.

As for creating your own bs, we all do it and we all have to cope with what came before, it has happened from the beginning of time and will continue to the end.

No, no, no. THIS generation is different. It's SPECIAL. It's problems are WAY worse than any other generation before it...oh, and none of it is THEIR fault. We can thank our politicians and lawyers for that. In our society, our shortcomings are NEVER our OWN fault...

[Ibanez]

Older people know more than they did when they were younger due to their life experiences, however that doesn't mean that they know more or less than anyone else.

The article points out some of the general experiential differences and attitudes of this generation, which apply to some and not to others of the generation.

The article is trite, but contains both general information and prejudice, by its nature.

I would be a better person if I could combine my 60 year old brain with my 20 year old body, but that isn't happening. I have what I have and they have what they have.

I do appreciate the old saw that if you aren't liberal in your youth, you don't have much of a heart and if you aren't conservative in your older years, you don't have much of a brain.

As for creating your own bs, we all do it and we all have to cope with what came before, it has happened from the beginning of time and will continue to the end.

No, no, no. THIS generation is different. It's SPECIAL. It's problems are WAY worse than any other generation before it...oh, and none of it is THEIR fault. We can thank our politicians and lawyers for that. In our society, our shortcomings are NEVER our OWN fault...

That isn't what the author is saying.

[AZGrizFan]

No, no, no. THIS generation is different. It's SPECIAL. It's problems are WAY worse than any other generation before it...oh, and none of it is THEIR fault. We can thank our politicians and lawyers for that. In our society, our shortcomings are NEVER our OWN fault...

That isn't what the author is saying.

Yes it is. You're in denial.

[AZGrizFan]

Entitled to jobs.
Unpaid internships are suddenly a "scam", despite their existence for years and years
They're apparently the first generation to have student loans
God forfucking bid they have to work through college (like THEY are the ones having to pay off the trillion dollars in student loan debt--that will all just get defaulted on)
Bankers are the bad guys
Starting a career on todays wages sucked. Newsflash: It sucked 30 years ago too.

He acts like these are all NEW problems, and that they're the only generation ever to have to deal with real "strife". He's a jackass of epic proportions...

[Ibanez]

That isn't what the author is saying.

Yes it is. You're in denial.

I read it as someone that was 24 years old when his job at Countrywide was lost due to Wall Street. It wasn't my fault. The author is not saying that the generation isn't blameless. The author is stating that times are tough, don't put all the blame on them. Most of us are trying to make it. Most of us are like the 20 somethings of the early 1990s. There's no denial here. I understand that every generation has its winners and losers. Some generations had to put life on hold due to world conflict (WW2) and others have had to put them on hold due to financial troubles in the world. I'm not saying my generation is identical to the challenges of those of the G.I. Generation. I'm saying that we've all been dealt a different set of circumstances. Some survive, some don't.

I, for one, hate the sense of entitlement and the culture of hypersensitivity that plagues my generation (though I feel it's mostly on those born in the 1990's and beyond).

[Ibanez]

I did some reading on Generations yesterday and I find it intriguing that some leaders in Generational studies predict that Generation Y will be similar to the Greatest Generation due to the strong sense of local and global community.

[∞∞∞]

God forfucking bid they have to work through college (like THEY are the ones having to pay off the trillion dollars in student loan debt--that will all just get defaulted on)

I don't have a fight in the generation v. generation spat, but hearing this point from older people (including my father) is kinda annoying. Most students I knew, including myself, had a job throughout college and it's damn near impossible to pay your way through it nowadays. It's nice that my dad was able to work his way through a master's degree, but it also cost him something like $25,000 for 6 years of college (at GWU nonetheless). It cost me a little over $80,000 for 5 years for a bachelor's at a public school. How am I supposed to realistically work through that? Now I agree that it's stupid to accumulate $300,000 in debt for a photography degree or something, but let's be realistic here regarding the cost of an education today.

[GrizFanStuckInUtah]

I did some reading on Generations yesterday and I find it intriguing that some leaders in Generational studies predict that Generation Y will be similar to the Greatest Generation due to the strong sense of local and global community.

They must be smoking crack, generation Y would fold like the French did (Pick a war).

[Ibanez]

I did some reading on Generations yesterday and I find it intriguing that some leaders in Generational studies predict that Generation Y will be similar to the Greatest Generation due to the strong sense of local and global community.

They must be smoking crack, generation Y would fold like the French did (Pick a war).

Generation Y didn't fold in Iraq or Afghanistan.


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