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That was a pretty decent article until the part with video games.
Once again a writer decides to try and project their personal opinions on to a subject they're* interviewing.
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> it's rational to blame them for a huge range of issues No, it's not. It's making broad generalizations on a huge group of people. It's like blaming all white people for discrimination or all black people for crime. It's wrong and discriminatory, and makes the assumption that everyone in that group is equally bad. Instead of focusing on a certain age group, focus on the economic forces that gave boomers more opportu…
Economics are not separated from politics. The poor diet of most Americans is a direct result of various subsidies given to the farming lobby. Individual choices allow an individual to be fat, but at a national level it takes vast tracts of land. The growth of Chinese manufacturing is in large part a result of trade policies and our vast growing national debt's impact on currency's. Want long term growth? End deficit…
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Considering Boomers have actual power right now and plenty of time for their influence to spread; it's rational to blame them for a huge range of issues.
> it's rational to blame them for a huge range of issues No, it's not. It's making broad generalizations on a huge group of people. It's like blaming all white people for discrimination or all black people for crime. It's wrong and discriminatory, and makes the assumption that everyone in that group is equally bad. Instead of focusing on a certain age group, focus on the economic forces that gave boomers more opportu…
There is little I dislike more than generational labels. It's lazy and reductionist thinking that allows people to arbitrarily draw lines in whatever way they feel will best push their narrative. Quick, 1981/1982[1] Millennial or X? [1] Those born in 1981/1982 graduated in 2000
Although that is probably closer to the Oregon Trail Generation :-)
https://socialmediaweek.org/blog/2015/04/oregon-trail-genera...
There is little I dislike more than generational labels. It's lazy and reductionist thinking that allows people to arbitrarily draw lines in whatever way they feel will best push their narrative. Quick, 1981/1982[1] Millennial or X? [1] Those born in 1981/1982 graduated in 2000
Personally, as a Millennial, I blame Boomers for everything.
It's simple divide and conquer. The 0.1% know you need somebody to blame for them squeezing you, so they tell boomers' it's millennials' fault and vice versa. It works pretty well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15844087 If that doesn't work, they can always blame immigrants, Islam or blacks.
It could be a conspiracy. Or it could be too many column inches to fill and not enough time to fill them with something insightful. Yeah, probably conspiracy.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
You don’t even need to go back to Ancient Greece. Lazy journalists were kicking this old can, but about Generation X, during the ‘90s.
Except the quote does not originate from the ancient Greeks that is.