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re: Which generation is to blame for this country’s direction?
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:21 am to Odysseus32
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:21 am to Odysseus32
Just to clarify, I chose the post title to get more discussion. I don’t believe the boomers or any one generation is the problem. It’s just frustrating to work so hard for simple goals and watch them slip away. I feel for future generations more than anything
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Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:22 am to PQuin
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Which generation is to blame for this country’s direction?
This is the absolute incorrect question and no matter what "generational" answer you have it is wrong and offers no basis for the solution...
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:23 am to Centinel
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The frick you talkin about? GenX got our asses beat all the time, by our parents and at school with a paddle
My dad whipped my arse as a kid.
We got paddled at school too with a big arse confederate flag paddle that would leave the stars and bars on your arse
This post was edited on 7/17/23 at 9:32 am
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:23 am to PQuin
Every generation is a product of the times they grew up in. People try to blame some other generation for something but they would have done the same thing in the same circumstances.
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:23 am to Odysseus32
Certainly diet, activity, social media, smartphones have a role in the last 3-4 decades
One thing about the generations - post WW2 saw the explosion of the middle class. Family incomes were within very tight distributions - the top were a lot closer to the middle and bottom than ever before in history. Debt was cheap. We could all watch the same three TV channels each night.
Parents raised their children that everyone can have a great life and the same things, no matter of origin, and that was mostly true - just as consumerism exploded.
In latter decades, the top grew in wealth exponentially more than the middle and lower percentiles but people still have the belief that we should all have the same things. Thus leading to keeping up with Joneses.
One thing about the generations - post WW2 saw the explosion of the middle class. Family incomes were within very tight distributions - the top were a lot closer to the middle and bottom than ever before in history. Debt was cheap. We could all watch the same three TV channels each night.
Parents raised their children that everyone can have a great life and the same things, no matter of origin, and that was mostly true - just as consumerism exploded.
In latter decades, the top grew in wealth exponentially more than the middle and lower percentiles but people still have the belief that we should all have the same things. Thus leading to keeping up with Joneses.
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:24 am to Odysseus32
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We became fat, tired, complacent, and dumb. The sugar industry, as well as companies that mass produce food items ladened with preservatives, fricked us. That's the cause, IMO. I think the obesity rate is the cause and all of the other shite (entitlement, lack of critical thinking, laziness, greed) is a symptom of the fact that we are so fricking fat.
Wut lol
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:24 am to PQuin
Broad brush accusations and determinations are almost always inaccurate and/or incomplete. Every generation has good and bad people, productive and lazy people, honest and dishonest people, etc etc.
The focus needs to be narrowed onto specific events and happenings to find true answers
The focus needs to be narrowed onto specific events and happenings to find true answers
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:25 am to PQuin
The one who voted for it.
Duh..
Those idiots span multiple generations.
Duh..
Those idiots span multiple generations.
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:25 am to PQuin
The media period.
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:25 am to Lithium
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Boomers for not whipping Gen Xers
Gen X was the last generation to see corporal punishment in schools beginning to end.
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:30 am to AUCom96
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Sometime approaching the 2010's or so, that started to dramatically change. Nationalistic sentiment began to be viewed akin to fascism. Identity politics took on far more importance then I have ever seen in my life. Anger and rage replaced disagreement and a kind of arrogant utopianism began to dominate social thinking. I feel like I know my generation and apathy would be its greatest trademark. My brother was a millennial and I can say that this demigod mentality seems most prevalent among them. Boomers wanted to buck their parents. Millennials think everyone and everything needs to be reformed.
Yeah, "sometime approaching the 2010s" is when millennials went into the university system and were indoctrinated into this mentality. Those millennials didn't indoctrinate themselves. They were indoctrinated by a subset of boomers/xers wanting to radically re-shape society while the majority of the people in that generation (like yourself) are just good people who thought it would never happen like that. It's silly to blame either of those generations when the real problem is most people within a generation just want to live their lives in peace while the others are willing to sell out everyone around them for power and influence.
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:42 am to PQuin
It isn't any one generation that is at fault. The obvious answer is liberals went after, and took control of public education. From there liberalism has been spreading through all generations, and yes it was infecting the boomers too. Where do you think the hippies got all their bizarre ideas? In the end Gen X, and Z, will fail, and war will ensue. Think I'm wrong? Study up on Tytler's Cycle.
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:43 am to PQuin
My generation- Gen Xers
Between the divorce rate and fall of the family unit, moving away from religion, growing up with the Carter economy into the Reagan era, the loss of our position in the world (mainly middle east, Iran/Beruit, and the energy crisis) with the Cold War always lurking we created the little monsters behind us.
To make matters worse, our generation is in charge now. We figured out we can manipulate the little monsters we created to enhance our own position or even to massage our own egos without even a glance at the "greater good".
Whether we want to admit it or not, whether is was conscious or not, we looked inward, gave up on the "greater good", and became selfish. It has now steamrolled downhill into a mess we can't control or fix.
Between the divorce rate and fall of the family unit, moving away from religion, growing up with the Carter economy into the Reagan era, the loss of our position in the world (mainly middle east, Iran/Beruit, and the energy crisis) with the Cold War always lurking we created the little monsters behind us.
To make matters worse, our generation is in charge now. We figured out we can manipulate the little monsters we created to enhance our own position or even to massage our own egos without even a glance at the "greater good".
Whether we want to admit it or not, whether is was conscious or not, we looked inward, gave up on the "greater good", and became selfish. It has now steamrolled downhill into a mess we can't control or fix.
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:44 am to PQuin
Whichever generation started letting women vote.
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:45 am to Spelt it rong
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My generation just hit early 40's. No way you can blame us for the current state of our country in regards to issues like housing cost, tuition, manufacturing overseas, etc. Boomers did well for themselves, but left a tough road for the rest of us.
And our generation will continue to double down on it.
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:45 am to PQuin
All of them.
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:46 am to PQuin
Boomers mortgaged the country's future for themselves
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:47 am to PQuin
boomers werent going over to dubai and getting arrested for shouting at people.
Thats my shitty generation
Thats my shitty generation
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:48 am to I20goon
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To make matters worse, our generation is in charge now.
Eh, not really. GenX holds more positions of power than a decade ago, but our country is largely still run by baby boomers.
Hell, plenty of people in high-ranking government positions are older than Boomers (Biden, Pelosi, McConnell, etc)
GenX are 43-58.
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:48 am to dgnx6
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boomers werent going over to dubai and getting arrested for shouting at people.
wonder which terrorist we'll trade for that victim's freedom?
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