Is it a stereotype of geezers screaming "turn down that blasted music and stay off my lawn!!" or does it really have some substance? Yeah, every generation thinks they have it figured out and the one following is a bunch of degenerate slackers. But looking at things logically, the WWII generation, the greatest generation, kicked ass. They were hard working, brave, dealt with a lot and turned this country from a sleepy little hick village into the preeminent superpower. They deserved to beat their chest a little and the baby boomers didn't accomplish as much.
Hell, they couldn't, they didn't face the same challenges. Maybe they could have done as well, but they never got the chance to rise up to face something monumental. But give them their due. They were hard workers, people who didn't mind dirt under their fingernails, people who built homes, took pride in a job well done, had interest in community and trying to give their kids an even better life. And they succeeded.
The Gen Xers turned up their nose at REAL work. They (and I'm one of them and own this) started to lose their way. Hard work was for other people, manufacturing was blue collar, it was for hicks, uneducated, people worse than us, the educated elite. We let this country down. We were not as hard workers as the boomers, we wanted the easy way and they gave it to us because the WWII generation gave it to them. The Gen X had it good and went off the deep end to create some soft of Utopian wonderland for the Millennials, a world free of anyone who disagreed with them, free of adversity, free of effort leading to reward, free of the satisfaction of a job well done.
And the Millennials have failed even more. We wanted maximum reward for minimum work, they want everything handed to them with no work at all. They're proud of having no skills, they're proud of having no jobs, they think the epitome of life is to be a spectator while other people do things. Maybe, just maybe, each generation is right to piss on the one following it. We have become lazier, more smug, more entitled, more PC, more expecting of everything being handed to us conflict free, more demanding of a world sanitized for our protection. The greatest generation had a right to look down on the Boomers. The Boomers had a right to look down on us Gen Xers and we have a right to look down on Millennials. Every generation we become somewhat less than we were before.
Ok, so you want to judge some weird "quality" of generation then straight up say that other generations are worse because they didn't even get the test? What kind of sense does that make?
I don't think you fully understand what looking at something logically means. Because you say you're doing that and then proceed to dismiss most information in your reasoning.
The "greatest generation" was also to blame for the shit they had to fix. Unless you're going to be one of those that tries to regulate things such that they only support what you want (i.e. thinking the greatest generation includes only the good guys, and not you know the Nazis, Soviets, and Imperial Japanese; also let's not forget the blatantly racist and fascist people that were in the US, doing things like Japanese internment camps, McCarthyism, trying to resist treating people as humans because they're a different race). Things are bit more complex than you act (an understatement to say the least, and why trying to simplify things into "generations" in general is a stupid fucking thing). Let's not forget, America wanted to stay the fuck out of WWII. What great people! So much courage! Also odd, how the Soviet Union is really who beat the Nazis (they were responsible for ~3/4+ of Nazi casualties). Or how about the fact that we heavily used Nazi scientists to get our space program going?
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Uh, America was far from a sleepy little hick village (and its not like the rest of the world was any better), and as for us becoming a super power we literally just reaped the rewards from the fact that we were isolated from most of the havoc wreaked around the rest of the world.
A lot of the stuff you're giving them credit for is just the progress of technology. And the fact is, its not like the average "greatest generation" member was the reason for those. They did get to reap the benefits though (much like you're now criticizing later generations for doing, but hey its not like just about every single aspect of your argument is hypocritical or anything...).
Yeah they're proud of not having jobs, I guess that's why they somehow also get blamed for allegedly constantly complaining about not being able to get jobs? Which is it? Wait, they want to be spectators, but isn't that the total opposite of them being the "me, me, me" generation? They want to be spectators but they're also the assholes so self absorbed that they're cataloguing every aspect of their life? Can you people even keep your nonsensical strawmen consistent?
No, because its consistently shown that them pissing on the newer generation is total bullshit and not based on reality? Nah, let's not let facts get in the way of the bullshit narratives that we want to believe.
People became lazier because literally the previous gens built a world requiring it. For fuck's sakes you people complain how kids now can't sit still nowadays. WTF? More smug? Are you shitting me? "Greatest generation" nothing smug about that... More entitled? I keep seeing people say that but its almost always conjecture with no real substance. Entitled to what exactly? That people should be treated well, have access to health care and education? But goddamnit they're spoiled brat idiots that don't care about anyone else! But according to you, apparently now they don't feel entitled, they brag about not having anything? More PC? Because they feel that people of various races, genders, sexual orientations, deserve equal rights and not to be insulted and marginalized?
The thing is, if you think that is true, who's fault is that? There's an obvious trend in that narrative, and what it shows is that the previous gens are the problem and the reason why the successive ones are worse. In your eyes somehow progress apparently peaked with the greatest generation and we've been regressing ever since (but it is also each new generations fault for that). So, Millennials will be shit for not fixing all of the problems the previous gens caused but also test themselves by creating and overcoming the worst ones humanity has ever faced.
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