(10-12-2018, 11:41 PM)gabrielle Wrote:(10-09-2018, 10:55 AM)David Horn Wrote:(10-07-2018, 10:41 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: CNN has one of the better articles on how the Millennials might look at things differently politically.
Unfortunately, they seem more than a little distracted. It's as if they live in a bubble that floats through the world of not-them. They don't feel any real attachment to that world, or any responsibility for it. They are angry about their lives; they see themselves as pawns in a game they don't play. Many are just accepting of their fate. It's sad, to be frank about it. If I have to use a single term, it's lethargic. I'm not sure what breaks that pattern.
Young people can't and shouldn't be expected to save the world. They're still struggling to find their own footing in it, and they're also trying to enjoy their youth while they have it. Millennials certainly have the potential, due to their numbers, to become a powerful force in shaping the future.
The Millies were deliberately sheltered in a way that Generation X wasn't. Where Xers will figure things out on their own a Millies expect answers to be given to them. I have a half-sister twenty-two years younger than I am and she does not deal well with the unexpected. She thinks that her two eldest brothers are insane, both are Generation X, and she doesn't handle it well when we a proven right.
Millies don't really get a grip an reality until life kicks the shit out of them for a while. Those that went to college are at a distinct disadvantage compared to those that had to start working early in life. The stupidest of the Millies have what I like to call a Starbuck's degree which is any degree that ends with the word 'Studies'.
They may yet become the equal of their grand-parents but it will come at great cost. Just as the Lost saved what they could so will Generation X but the Boomers will never like our choices because they never really could deal with reality.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises