09-18-2016, 11:59 PM
(09-18-2016, 11:47 PM)taramarie Wrote:(09-18-2016, 11:36 PM)Galen Wrote:(09-18-2016, 04:09 PM)taramarie Wrote:(09-18-2016, 09:22 AM)Bronsin Wrote: I have watched all but the first season of Survivor, and I'm really looking forward to this one. I can easily see the Xer's getting fed up with the Millennials sitting around camp while they do all the work.
If you are an xer you should remember when boomers were saying you guys were the lazy good for nothing arseholes. You are just repeating the ignorance. Elders also said the same of boomers in their youth.
Truth is, they were saying much worse things about Generation X and in the case of Eric the Obtuse and those like him they still are. Millies have tended to be a mixed bag, those with a clue tend to work out well. When a Millie suffers from the snowflake syndrome then they can be quite insufferable.
Well, I certainly know what Twenge says and Mark Bauerlein about us with his book "The Dumbest Generation." What makes that laughable as he is of the baby boomer generation which Neil Howe stated declined in records of SAT scores at the same age. Probably partly due to being too busy protesting or getting high or joining cults. (Note I said partly due which implies I know other things would have contributed as well). My mother left school to go for the money for instance. Something I cannot do personally. I have to enjoy what I do as I do not have the patience to put up with anything else. As for mixed bag, well that can be said of any generation really. Every generation has its insufferable and its gems. It is just the loudest ones are noticed more and they tend to reveal the terrible side of their generation and their own nasty traits.
Take from someone in a position to know, the Boomers are on the average a complete loss and the years don't seem to have improved them much. They definitely do not have the competence of their GI parents which is also a big part of the problem.
The Millies all too often need to have things spoonfed to them because the school system here doesn't teach them to think. After a few years of dealing with reality they start to correct that problem.
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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