Generational Differences: Millenials vs. Everone Else

[BotanyBoy]

Oy. What a bunch of old fuddy-duddies.

Who do you think raised the millennials?

If you don't like how they act you have no one to blame but yourself.

They don't have the personal responsibility required to own the fact that today's young people, not to mention political/economic state of affairs is pretty much entirely their fault. Boomers most of all.

Why are we singling out Millennials?

Every one of those generations was shit.

They've inherited the world we've left them.

It makes the older generations feel better about the fact that they handed the allegedly incompetent kids a mismanaged shit storm.

well, i can blame society.

and consumer capitalism.

and you can't blame me for those.

Not you personally....but this discussion is in the context of generations and if you're a silent/boomer/ early Gen X then millennials and the current state of our country is pretty much all your fault.

 

[Paul_Chance]

Also, keep in mind that the average age of a soldier is 30 (Marines skew the youngest by 5 years). So, those millennials are going through a life shaping experience, or have gone through it, that pretty much burns away any stereotype.

 

[lilly5742]

I'm an older millennial. Born in 85. I think people who whine about my generation as if generations mean anything are hilarious and just having some sort of crisis over the fact that they are getting older. Has nothing to do with generation issues. Some people suck, some don't, age has nothing to do with it. Hopefully, I am able to remain emotionally stable enough to avoid suffering through the same self identity issues once my kids are grown.

 

[Porkwarrior]

Old fuddy duddy catching a Maiden concert.

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lighter_at_concert.jpg

Millenials catching a Maiden concert.

http://members.modernvespa.net/breturi7/uploads/zippo_144.jpg

 

[Wings]

Old fuddy duddy catching a Maiden concert.

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lighter_at_concert.jpg

Millenials catching a Maiden concert.

http://members.modernvespa.net/breturi7/uploads/zippo_144.jpg

I can't see the first pic but it doesn't matter. Who gives a shit if they're holding up their phones? Do you think they can't hear the music? Feel the crowd's excitement? That they didn't pay the exact same, or more likely: an incredibly exorbitant amount for their ticket?

My teenagers always have their phone. Always. So do I. I can capture anything in a moment and I love it. When we are on vacation and are wondering about something we can look it up instantly. My children have the world at their fingertips and yes, they're more tolerant.

I am a very young Gen Xer and I don't feel spoiled, I don't feel like I've missed out on experiences, that I've been given shit that I haven't earned. I was born into a word that the previous generation left for me: both parents have to work, kids have almost always become latchkey, housing prices are ridiculous. This wasn't my fault just as my parents were born into a post WWII world at the end of the depression so their life was different.

I'm so tired of seeing the Facebook memes being posted of teenagers taking selfies and how horrible it is. And kids in an art museum learning about the artist that's before them. It's all bullshit. We have created this world for the next generation and they will create it for their offspring. The earth continues to spin and people will continue to enjoy music, art, maybe they have a higher self-esteem and create more selfies but they will never be Van Gogh level of painting 36 self portraits over 10 years.

Like narcissism is new. Please.

 

[butters]

One more troll for the oven...

*IGNORED*

jolly good!

I can't see the first pic but it doesn't matter. Who gives a shit if they're holding up their phones?

nor can i, but could it be the people in the first are holding up lighters rather than pictures of lighters on their phones?

i'm sure there's all sorts of stuff to be extrapolated from that, but just as a physical difference it works

 

[richard_daily]

Has there ever been another generation whose identity is defined by a single item that they own?

 

[Wings]

You mean like...
Owning an automobile?
Owning a computer?
Owning a cell phone?
Owning a pack of monkeys?


It might happen.

 

[richard_daily]

You mean like...
Owning an automobile?
Owning a computer?
Owning a cell phone?
Owning a pack of monkeys?


It might happen.

Which generation has been defined by any of those?

 

[lovecraft68]

Soft, lazy, spoiled and entitled and I'll add all of these 'attributes' are getting worse and worse. The 1982-2000 crowd will look hard working and tough compared to the generation born after 2000.

 

[Wings]

Which generation has been defined by any of those?

I'm anticipating the personal pack of monkeys will be in the future.

 

[richard_daily]

I'm anticipating the personal pack of monkeys will be in the future.

That's nice.

 

[butters]

this thread makes me laugh: what generation, as it ages (and with the usual exceptions) doesn't seem to think the younguns of today are feckless/shifty/disrespectful/unable to stand on their own 2 feet/wasteful/spoilt/entitled etc..., etc..., etc...? and what generation coming into their own doesn't think they know more, they're better-informed, have a better grasp of how the world works, dismisses oldies as past it...?

jeezus wept, it's like grumpy old men in here!

 

[pointless]

well, boomers got car culture, so there's that.

but since pretty much every gen xer i know who isn't completely broke has a smart phone i gotta call bullshit on the whole concept. hell, the first time i ever went into my providers store i got to watch a bunch of geezer boomers take a class on smart phones. that was amusing.

 

[Wings]

That's nice.

I don't want to get into a bickering match about whether this latest generation will be defined by the cell phone. It's not something I'm interested in and I opt for humor instead.

So, long sentences short: yup.

 

[pointless]

i give "cell phone" at most five years before it becomes something that makes teenagers snicker and roll their eyes at how old fashioned and outdated it is.

 

[Wings]

i give "cell phone" at most five years before it becomes something that makes teenagers snicker and roll their eyes at how old fashioned and outdated it is.

Probably.

 

[pollynova]

I'm a millenial I guess.

 

[Porkwarrior]

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

Socrates, 400BC

 

[butters]

Socrates, 400BC

there you go, and no doubt the aging egyptian populace were muttering the same thing thousands of years before him!

the more the world changes, the more people stay the same

 

[Hard_Rom]

Oh, how I wish I knew then
when I thought I knew it all,
what I know now.

 

[miles]

Blah, blah, blah.

Every generation complains about subsequent ones.

Boring.

 

[ryan8558]

Blah, blah, blah.

Every generation complains about subsequent ones.

Boring.

Yes, and they'll eventually figure it out.

We had to.

 

[kauen]

I'm not sure whether this thread was just a bit of fun or a "lets bash millennial's" adventure but the post at the top of this page is broadly correct.

I have unfortunately heard far too many times in my relatively short life older folks blaming my generation for all of societies ills, this truly irks me since most of these ills are either directly or indirectly related to decisions that were taken before myself and many in my generation were even born let alone of an age to wield any political influence.

What's worse its my generation that are paying the biggest price for these bad decisions. I don't want to turn this into a generational war but some older folks really need to take some responsibility and stop pawning off their own failures.

 

[Lancecastor]

Millennials have more education, more disposable income and brighter futures than any generation before them.

I have two of my own and they are both independent, debt free and hard working.

If you know a lazy millennial, blame its parents.