11-02-2016, 02:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-02-2016, 02:13 PM by disasterzone.)
(11-01-2016, 02:35 PM)taramarie Wrote: I mean I do not know if other generations call the American millies culturally dead. They certainly do here in NZ towards us millies. Rule desiring, culturally numb, dead and drawn to create things together and with it loosing individual creativity is the fear of older folk from my experience as a creative millennial being in a class of other fellow creative millennials.
For me, what made me risk taking was being blocked at every avenue because everything was made to be perfect. Everything was deemed too risky or too nonconventional to try and I failed whenever I tried to do things the "perfect" Millennial way. When I didn't I pushed forward. All the "safe" things in my life failed me and all the supposed experts had no answers and I had to find them myself.
I also observed what happens when you have people so paranoid and scared in your life that nothing happens and nothing moves forward. Sometimes people neglect to take risks so much that it's more of a risk in the end because no move is made and it's too late. I've seen what happens when people neglected to do anything because they thought everything was a "scam" or everything was out to get them and have long term outcomes suffer because they'd rather not take the risk and think you should just accept the hand life dealt you.
I don't understand why my generation seems to think that it's better to just accept a negative outcome than do unconventional and risky things to get out of something. It's like they want to wait for everything to be proven by 20 years before they even make a move. They have this sense of fatalism about them and think there's a lot of things that have no easy answer and can't be fixed. So they like to warn you and say you're never gonna do this or that. It's like they take joy and pleasure in discouragement.