Wow. Millennials are just as addicted to the smell of their farts as baby boomers. No wonder you guys think gen x and gen z are cynical. We gotta listen to your bullshit.
I agree 100% of everything in the first part, but also, I believe with the same level of certainty, that if you voted for Trump because you support Palestinians then you’re a dumbass. As in, I’m not sure how you’ve managed to get through life without inadvertently shoving a fork through your eye stupid. Just so, so fucking dumb. It’s crazy that I have to say this, because it’s just self-evident, and it always, in every moment of all of our lives, was.
I think that as a generation, millenials just lack political talent. The only thing they excel at is creating memes, but there seems to be a lack of seriousness, backbone and ability to operate offline that (I suppose?) was more present in older generations, including the boomers.
I think growing up on the internet also solidified a naive consumerist attitude towards politics. More specifically, there seems to be this notion that "making yourself heard" is somehow supposed to accomplish something, as if politics is about meeting the needs of the electorate, not a power game that exploits the electorate using propaganda.
I'm a Millennial and I agree with you. I am profoundly embarrassed of my generation on so many levels. We were the first experimental iPhone Generation. Needless to say the experiment failed.
Where to begin. You hate that the plebs can vote. You insist on reframing October 7 as Israeli aggression (fucking Jews, eh, groyper ?) And, you’re teaching English at a university. And it goes on and on and on in the vein of the not-so-much-angry-as-sorrowful dude. Pathetique.
Haha, no kidding. Makes me glad I opted to not enroll. To think a university, even a middling one such as the one to which this dweeb belongs, would employ a person so tenuous. Wasted 10 minutes on this peacocking pontification.
Why even give the choice of « don’t care » ? What teenager cares ? You still have 30 ans 50 year olds who wear apathy as a badge of honor and supremacy over others. « Don’t care » shouldn’t have been an option. It communicates that you, as the authority figurine, don’t care either. That not caring is a possibility you have chosen and displayed to them. The importance of not caring is further amplified if you made it the last choice out of the three. Silly survey execution. Be a better authority and guide.
An important factor you missed is generational size. Millennials are the largest generation in US history. That means they have an impact at the ballot box as a group. Both Gen X and Z are smaller than the Boomer generation, not to mention millennials. So the political field is defined by boomers and millennials, the first and second largest generations while x & y have to pick someone else to stick to.
1982 here. I got on a computer at age 9 and never looked back.
I think Millennials' legacy will be that we so internalized the internet's rules that we forgot how to pick up guns and bombs. History will say we sat on our hands, nervously waiting-and-seeing, until the end of American democracy.
And good riddance.
American democracy was a dead letter ever since that fateful day in 1980 when CNN came online. In a generation's time, it will not be mourned.
Just as "Never Forget" faded into "A second plane has hit the towers" memes, "democracy is a sacred duty" will fade into "lol democracy is a fail".
Millennials, we should embrace the premature end of our relevance, and see ourselves off the stage with songs.
you forgot that Gen X skews wildly libertarian (because totally naive because totally disengaged) and went heavily for T***p. I have come ever more to identify with Millennials because I was born on the boundary line and always loathed rightwing politics.
Gen X misunderstood the political significance of their cynicism and disengagement (there was none: either do the work or admit you’re just posturing to look cool), and their unseriousness combined with technological shifts turned them into the worst parent generation in modern history, with the fundamentally incapable Gen Z being the result of that.
Millennials got dealt a raw hand (with the financial crisis timed to accompany their labour market entry) and then ran amok during the 2010s combining youthful idiocy with being the only group of people around who really understood how social media worked, overestimating the impact of their earnest-yet-foolish online policing.
Boomers are of course the most spoiled and entitled generation of them all.
Also, GenX really should be more optimistic, AIDS going from death sentence to so treatable it can’t be transmitted is a miracle. Thank you big pharma, big insurance and federal investment in health science. I’ll be sad to see you go.
Wow. Millennials are just as addicted to the smell of their farts as baby boomers. No wonder you guys think gen x and gen z are cynical. We gotta listen to your bullshit.
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I agree 100% of everything in the first part, but also, I believe with the same level of certainty, that if you voted for Trump because you support Palestinians then you’re a dumbass. As in, I’m not sure how you’ve managed to get through life without inadvertently shoving a fork through your eye stupid. Just so, so fucking dumb. It’s crazy that I have to say this, because it’s just self-evident, and it always, in every moment of all of our lives, was.
I think that as a generation, millenials just lack political talent. The only thing they excel at is creating memes, but there seems to be a lack of seriousness, backbone and ability to operate offline that (I suppose?) was more present in older generations, including the boomers.
I think growing up on the internet also solidified a naive consumerist attitude towards politics. More specifically, there seems to be this notion that "making yourself heard" is somehow supposed to accomplish something, as if politics is about meeting the needs of the electorate, not a power game that exploits the electorate using propaganda.
I'm a Millennial and I agree with you. I am profoundly embarrassed of my generation on so many levels. We were the first experimental iPhone Generation. Needless to say the experiment failed.
Where to begin. You hate that the plebs can vote. You insist on reframing October 7 as Israeli aggression (fucking Jews, eh, groyper ?) And, you’re teaching English at a university. And it goes on and on and on in the vein of the not-so-much-angry-as-sorrowful dude. Pathetique.
Haha, no kidding. Makes me glad I opted to not enroll. To think a university, even a middling one such as the one to which this dweeb belongs, would employ a person so tenuous. Wasted 10 minutes on this peacocking pontification.
p.s.— Ziggy? What’s the deal with that?
Were I 18, I would pay money not to listen to your infantile spew.
I'd tell you to teach English literature, but this is clearly not a job that interests you, nor one you are qualified for.
The one thing that is clear from this regurgitated blather is that you don't know anything important about three things: Trump, Gen Z, and Foucault.
Why even give the choice of « don’t care » ? What teenager cares ? You still have 30 ans 50 year olds who wear apathy as a badge of honor and supremacy over others. « Don’t care » shouldn’t have been an option. It communicates that you, as the authority figurine, don’t care either. That not caring is a possibility you have chosen and displayed to them. The importance of not caring is further amplified if you made it the last choice out of the three. Silly survey execution. Be a better authority and guide.
Learned helplessness is a heady drug. We produce plenty of 'Karens' but don't know how to do things ourself, it seems.
An important factor you missed is generational size. Millennials are the largest generation in US history. That means they have an impact at the ballot box as a group. Both Gen X and Z are smaller than the Boomer generation, not to mention millennials. So the political field is defined by boomers and millennials, the first and second largest generations while x & y have to pick someone else to stick to.
Nice analysis, from a Gen X perspective.
1982 here. I got on a computer at age 9 and never looked back.
I think Millennials' legacy will be that we so internalized the internet's rules that we forgot how to pick up guns and bombs. History will say we sat on our hands, nervously waiting-and-seeing, until the end of American democracy.
And good riddance.
American democracy was a dead letter ever since that fateful day in 1980 when CNN came online. In a generation's time, it will not be mourned.
Just as "Never Forget" faded into "A second plane has hit the towers" memes, "democracy is a sacred duty" will fade into "lol democracy is a fail".
Millennials, we should embrace the premature end of our relevance, and see ourselves off the stage with songs.
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
1982 here as well. Agree. Internalized the internet to a scary degree.
you forgot that Gen X skews wildly libertarian (because totally naive because totally disengaged) and went heavily for T***p. I have come ever more to identify with Millennials because I was born on the boundary line and always loathed rightwing politics.
Gen X misunderstood the political significance of their cynicism and disengagement (there was none: either do the work or admit you’re just posturing to look cool), and their unseriousness combined with technological shifts turned them into the worst parent generation in modern history, with the fundamentally incapable Gen Z being the result of that.
Millennials got dealt a raw hand (with the financial crisis timed to accompany their labour market entry) and then ran amok during the 2010s combining youthful idiocy with being the only group of people around who really understood how social media worked, overestimating the impact of their earnest-yet-foolish online policing.
Boomers are of course the most spoiled and entitled generation of them all.
Everyone sucks :D
Also, GenX really should be more optimistic, AIDS going from death sentence to so treatable it can’t be transmitted is a miracle. Thank you big pharma, big insurance and federal investment in health science. I’ll be sad to see you go.
>And unlike the Generation Y bracket—who were born during the last of the United States’ best decades,…
Huh, maybe those neoliberals were on to something if it led to America’s best decades.
Amen. Preach it. I've been saying this on repeat: Trump did not win the election; Democrats failed. Tattoo it on your foreheads, Liberals.
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