06-27-2019, 09:51 AM
(06-26-2019, 08:39 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:(06-26-2019, 11:56 AM)David Horn Wrote:(06-26-2019, 04:46 AM)taramarie Wrote: It actually has an excellent point and the only worthless thing here is the commentary that goes along with it above my comment. It is spot on for us millennials, including us millennials overseas who are stuck with the mess and who have been lied to by boomers particularly about the freaking degrees.
We Boomers have bolloxed things badly. I agree. Then again, we've been operating on a tight wire without the benefit of a net. The older modes of behavior we were raised to follow were decrepit in our youth and totally moribund today. The ones we've created to replace them leave a lot to be desired, as you might expect. Part and parcel: we're split into diametrically opposed factions, making it impossible for us to present a coherent message -- even a bad one. So, you're on your own to work things through. We wish you well.
What older modes of behavior are moribund today and decrepit in your youth?
There used to be a "sense of decorum" that defined how we presented ourselves in public and interacted in both public and private settings. In short, these were the stodgy rules our elders followed, often to the letter but mostly in spirit. There were unwritten rules for everything (e.g. dress, speech, deference to authority and elders) which we Boomers hated and obliterated. Now, there are rules for nothing, and we're in the opposite camp of too little decorum to make polite society a reliable thing. It's all flat and bad behavior is just as acceptable as good, though we're still reluctant to walk around totally naked.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.
