A bit of a tangent, but kind of related to this generation: does anyone else hate it when they see a meme, article or comment about "90s kids"?
This Generation Is Fucked
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You sound like you think that the rights of minorities is the biggest determining factor when it comes to how "successful" a generation is. It's too early to see what people born in the late 80s and 90s will be like in the future, but social acceptance doesn't mean anything when the leaders of the world are incompetent, lazy, idiotic, selfish, etc.Silentpony said:
I would make the arguments that the rising rights of minorities is the biggest determining factor. What is the point of celebrating the accomplishments of previous generations when only a small percentage of the world population (white males) actually got to enjoy it.ToastiestZombie said:
Yep, you're fucked.
Big time.
Though not in the sense you seem to interpret.
You see, around my parts, when they say, "This generation is fucked," they mean in the sense that they won't have it easy. Buying a house? Building a house? Loans, taxes, job security, etc. We're fucked because we're heading for some rough patches.
So, yeah, even though I loathe facebook and tweeting and iPhones, I don't think our generation is fucked in the sense of: "we're the worst generation ever". However, we are pretty fucked in the sense that the nearby future looks pretty darn bleak.
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Big time.
Though not in the sense you seem to interpret.
You see, around my parts, when they say, "This generation is fucked," they mean in the sense that they won't have it easy. Buying a house? Building a house? Loans, taxes, job security, etc. We're fucked because we're heading for some rough patches.
So, yeah, even though I loathe facebook and tweeting and iPhones, I don't think our generation is fucked in the sense of: "we're the worst generation ever". However, we are pretty fucked in the sense that the nearby future looks pretty darn bleak.
Hah! How about that, my parents forced the exact same rule on me, though I had a PSOne, not a GameBoy. I had to nag for more than a year before Saint Nicholas finally got me one. (And no freakin' way our household would ever get one of those asocial handheld devices, no sir!)Bob_McMillan said:
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I never really know what to think of this old discussion. Our merits and our faults all arise from the circumstances created by previous generations, so I never feel the need to be defensive about the generation I belong to.
?Our youth now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.? -Aristophenes, Circa 420 BC
The whole "The children are going to ruin everything!" sentiment has been around as long as humans have lived.
The whole "The children are going to ruin everything!" sentiment has been around as long as humans have lived.
If this generation is fucked it will be because of outside forces and not because we all happen to be born under a cursed moon
There are a lot if challenges we face...the looming threat of climate change, technology...
I ignore BS that talks about generations in absolutes...it's all vapid fluff and soon well move into the next fad/trend rinse repeat
There are a lot if challenges we face...the looming threat of climate change, technology...
I ignore BS that talks about generations in absolutes...it's all vapid fluff and soon well move into the next fad/trend rinse repeat
The world isn't ending, I suppose, but we are inheriting our ancestors mistakes, which makes their insufferable attitude as awful as their incompetence. The baby boomers onward really messed up. A Cold War, Vietnam, multiple wars in the Middle East, terrorism, insane national debt, an authoritative government that spies on its own citizens and tortures foreign combatants.... They've squandered everything, and expect the current generation to look after them while also fixing their mistakes, and all the while I'm asking when will it be our time? There are too many old men in congress. Our forefathers were cowards, they're still cowards, and they're fools. All of them? No. But as a generation? Absolutely.Zontar said:
I have little patience for the older generations. I hope to god that my generation learns from their mistakes, and makes things easier for those that follow.
This generation is much better off than most generations, honestly. In the US anyway, until the Vietnam war the media was rather constrained and didn't often criticize parts of the government which were deemed "sacred" like the military. But after Vietnam, the media became its own monster and the government no longer held sway over them. That's caused another problem with media outlets catering to specific beliefs, but now we have so much media we can look at multiple sources and find some kind of truth within it.Bob_McMillan said:
Also, the Internet has done wonders for the world--information and communication are the two most powerful shapers of the world, and the Internet has revolutionized both. Information on every subject is easier to come by, from how taxes work to how to get birth control. Even though you have conservative parents if there's something you want to know about sex or birth control, you can find it. We can know what's going on in France in real time, and through mediums like Twitter and Facebook and Reddit we don't have to rely on the mainstream media to see it. While we haven't fixed our problems to do with race, gender, LGBT, etc. we're at least TALKING about these problems and more or less stumbling in the right direction. Yes we have problems with religious extremism, global warming, the wealth gap and the like, but life expectancy in the developed world is higher than ever, and more places in the world than ever are "developed" or on their way to being so.
Every generation believes it's the best generation, and that the younger generation is just screwing it all up. Anybody who criticizes a generation as a whole is not worth listening to.
OT: I go by the logic of "every generation does this so whatever". Things look bleak, but then again when don't things look bleak for the future?
Also sometimes we can get good reactions such as this:
I usually find such things funny, especially when they don't discuss things specific to 90s kids. The only thing they can really bring up is 90s or early 00s pop music because chances are the Gen Z'ers watched Toy Story and played Half-Life or Doom when they were young. Thankfully I spent my childhood experiencing entertainment from both sides of that year Buzzfeed despises so much so I can smugly state "yeah, I do remember that, so what?"San Martin said:
Also sometimes we can get good reactions such as this:
To be fair though, the baby boomers were also given their ancestor's mistakes. The cold war and Vietnam were spurred by the red scare and McCarthyism. But the red scare of the 50s was the second red scare the US has faced--the first starting in 1918 during the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. The rise of Hitler and World War II provided a distraction from Russia for a while, but that first red scare set the stage for icy relations between the US and Russia and the second red scare. The baby boomers didn't really become adults until after McCarthyism had fully set in, and by then US politics had also begun its polarization between the left and the right.Fox12 said:
Exactly. What generation is he even talking about?RhombusHatesYou said:
If we assume that current 15-18y old ones, then
1)"Your" music sucks. I'm not sure is it your really, but 99% of music that is currently on radio can go and suck big hairy balls
2)Your early teens happened with social networks. Evidence of your stupidity may never disappear and this is reason why many of you may actually be fucked.
And that's it.
P.S. Also- how many of current teens know how to play chess? Just curious.
Old people freed the slaves, old people allowed multi racial couples, old people gave women the vote, old people invented the god damn internet. We're not fucked but we sure as hell are living in others success more so than our own.
Can't we just agree that everyone's fucked? Because I was sort-of born and raised inbetween generations, so side-picking is really hard and sort of stupid.
Yeah, this generation is fucked. Not because of its culture or social practices, both of which are abhorrent and I am so disappointed in you and myself where did I go wrong ect, but because of the generation before it. Things can only get worse from here, but because things are perfect and amazing, but because human beings are too immature to handle the vast technological advancements that will come in, say, the next decade or so. Shit's moving forward, but we're not using it for the right purposes.
So yes, this generation is fucked. So was the last one. And the one before that. It's like a descendo of rapidly descending failure.
Yeah, this generation is fucked. Not because of its culture or social practices, both of which are abhorrent and I am so disappointed in you and myself where did I go wrong ect, but because of the generation before it. Things can only get worse from here, but because things are perfect and amazing, but because human beings are too immature to handle the vast technological advancements that will come in, say, the next decade or so. Shit's moving forward, but we're not using it for the right purposes.
So yes, this generation is fucked. So was the last one. And the one before that. It's like a descendo of rapidly descending failure.