09-24-2018, 10:47 AM
(09-23-2018, 11:10 PM)Galen Wrote:(09-23-2018, 04:52 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I see the millennials as too busy keeping their heads above water to try to control the flood.
As an Xer with a Millie sister who has also interacted with a large number of them it seems more like they have been too sheltered to understand what is really going on. There are a few that haven't and they act more like Xers then I would have expected.
What it interesting to me is that the generation that follows. I have encountered a surprising number of them who know that they are screwed and know who did it.
Hint: They don't blame Generation X. So far they seem to be looking at Xers to pick up survival skills.
They know that Big Business and a government that does what Big Business wants it to do are not their friends. Plutocracy sucks -- it always has and always will.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
