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Boomers are worse, a thousand-fold worse. I doubt there has ever been a generation more destructive, hypocritical, or self-unaware... I pray there is never another.
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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.
The point about the quote going back to the ancient Greeks is to show it is an eternal argument. Except the quote does not originate from the ancient Greeks that is.
I read a lot of Plato in school, and even learned to read in Ancient Greek. It’s often funnier in Greek than in most translations.
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There is exactly one "millennial" in Congress, and you've probably never heard of her. I think it's fair to say "millennials" aren't voting on legislation, at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elise_Stefanik
> There is exactly one "millennial" in Congress... I think it's fair to say "millennials" aren't voting on legislation, at least. No, this makes the assumption that all millennials would only vote for a millennial. That doesn't make sense. Millennials typically don't have as much political experience. Why would we vote for them? Millennials don't need to be voted into office for their voice to be heard. That's the po…
Requires someone to be in Congress, not be a normal person on election day. Regular voters have very limited direct impact on specific pieces of legislation.
Don't you just love the snake millennial chrome extention? "It seems a reader can barely go a week without seeing at least one news headline about how Snake People are “killing” some industry or product. Serpent Society is purportedly wiping out casual dining, golf, diamonds, homeownership, and bars of soap, among other consumer products; news items have also characterized the generation as lazy, vain, and always loo…
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The point about the quote going back to the ancient Greeks is to show it is an eternal argument. Except the quote does not originate from the ancient Greeks that is.
Isn’t it true that when something happened long ago, it doesn’t follow that it happened continuously since, even if it happened recently as well? I read a lot of Plato in school, and even learned to read in Ancient Greek. It’s often funnier in Greek than in most translations.
It is true it does not follow. What the quote implies it is a very old issue.
That was a pretty decent article until the part with video games.
Came here to post this. Gamergate is more than three years old now and yet people still try to dredge it up and smear it as a "misogynist hate campaign" when even a cursory amount of research proves otherwise (not if you only look at headlines of course). Once again a writer decides to try and project their personal opinions on to a subject they're* interviewing.
I've noticed this tendency for people these days to just refuse to do work they don't like. They expect to be doing the interesting work that is reserved for people who have earned it. I tend to attribute this to millennial and their sense of entitlement. I've also seen some really driven millennials who get a lot of work done on their own initiative. I don't view them as typical millennials, but rather, as individuals who have rejected the entitled behavior of the standard millennial.
I don't know how true any of that is. I was born in '80, and my generation is entitled as shit. It just feels like, as we were realizing the lie of how entitled we were told to be, that the subsequent generation fell for even worse bullshit than we did.
Personally, as a Millennial, I blame Boomers for everything.
I feel like there's some obvious point-missing going on here. "Millennials are killing X" is a marketing POV, and marketing fundamentally exists outside morality. It's not a moral indictment, it's just a bald statement of fact, like "the automobile is killing the horse-drawn carriage". Disclaimer: I have not read everything that's ever been written about millennials.
Marketing exists to sell stuff. Facts are only relevant to marketing in-so-far as the facts sells the product. More often than not, marketing is bullshit and completely devoid of facts because facts are boring and products need to be exciting.
"Millenials are killing X" is exactly the sort of marketing statement that is completely devoid of facts.