Millennials compared to your generation

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  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Bry_Lander wrote: »
    Timshel_ wrote: »
    Bry_Lander wrote: »
    My parents are Baby Boomers, and I respect them and love them dearly, but you really can't name anything that the Baby Boomer generation touched that didn't get completely ruined or significantly degraded on their watch. And they aren't finished yet...

    Interesting. I think they are happy they lived through the Cold War, fought Communism, championed the fight against racism and sexism, created EDM, artificial hearts and tons of medical breakthroughs, and created the the technology and the Internet so people have a platform to knock them.

    Yeah for fighting Communism, boo for the political correctness (PC is 100% a Baby Boomer infliction) imposed upon our military that degraded our capabilities significantly throughout the 1980s and into the 90s and cost a lot of lives (the Lebanon barracks bombing and Blackhawk Down come immediately to mind).

    Yeah for good intentions on racism, boo on a racist welfare system that essentially destroyed the institution of marriage and 2 parent households, thereby ensuring generational dependence on the government.

    Yeah for fighting sexism, boo on the popularity of divorce and death of the stay at home mom / one income families and the negative effect on kids (from a former latchkey kid)

    The medical technology breakthroughs were great, the fracturing of the health care system and the monopoly of big pharma, not so much.

    The internet was created by the WWII generation by the DoD in the 1960s (sorry, Al Gore)- I give Boomers credit for developing and advancing it.

    Thanks for your correlations, and your political rhetoric and agenda.
  • fatal_degree
    fatal_degree Posts: 22 Member
    csbnga wrote: »
    I think people are mostly the same regardless of generation. Superficial things change and every generation likes to think the ones younger than them suck.

    Yup.
    Different circumstantial experiences exist, but on average...yup.
  • Bry_Fitness70
    Bry_Fitness70 Posts: 2,480 Member
    Timshel_ wrote: »
    Bry_Lander wrote: »
    Timshel_ wrote: »
    Bry_Lander wrote: »
    My parents are Baby Boomers, and I respect them and love them dearly, but you really can't name anything that the Baby Boomer generation touched that didn't get completely ruined or significantly degraded on their watch. And they aren't finished yet...

    Interesting. I think they are happy they lived through the Cold War, fought Communism, championed the fight against racism and sexism, created EDM, artificial hearts and tons of medical breakthroughs, and created the the technology and the Internet so people have a platform to knock them.

    Yeah for fighting Communism, boo for the political correctness (PC is 100% a Baby Boomer infliction) imposed upon our military that degraded our capabilities significantly throughout the 1980s and into the 90s and cost a lot of lives (the Lebanon barracks bombing and Blackhawk Down come immediately to mind).

    Yeah for good intentions on racism, boo on a racist welfare system that essentially destroyed the institution of marriage and 2 parent households, thereby ensuring generational dependence on the government.

    Yeah for fighting sexism, boo on the popularity of divorce and death of the stay at home mom / one income families and the negative effect on kids (from a former latchkey kid)

    The medical technology breakthroughs were great, the fracturing of the health care system and the monopoly of big pharma, not so much.

    The internet was created by the WWII generation by the DoD in the 1960s (sorry, Al Gore)- I give Boomers credit for developing and advancing it.

    Thanks for your correlations, and your political rhetoric and agenda.

    Points and counterpoints - "I don't like your counterpoints so I will just dismiss them as political rhetoric/agenda fodder and call it a day", got it.
  • Z_I_L_L_A
    Z_I_L_L_A Posts: 2,399 Member
    edited January 2018
    Manbuns & Tide Pods vs Mullet & Pop rocks with coke,lol.
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