"The Younger Generation...blah, blah, blah..."

[1gayguy]

(tounge firmly planted in cheek)
The younger generation isn't interested in anything that doesn't generate loud noise and or have wires coming out of it.
They have no idea how to have polite conversation, not to mention that their vocabulary is stuck on words like cool, like and wow.
They have the penmanship of a career doctor and wouldn't know how to draft a letter by hand if they had to.
The younger generation has no respect for anything. Sure they like the look of public garden but couldn't waste their time trying to maintain it. If it can't be done with a few key strokes and a couple of mouse clicks then it's not worthy of their time.
(done)

 

[gabriel1]

Things have changed since I was a kid. I was born in '51 and I was right on the edge of no-longer being a Boomer. When did they extend it to '64?

It's always been that according to: http://www.bbhq.com/whatsabm.htm

and: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomer


I have always heard the boomers referred to as the baby boom from 9 months after WWII ended in 1945 until 1964 when the birth rate declined.

 

[luckotheirish]

Everytime I hear anything that sounds like "Well back in the good ol' days...," I chuckle. In my opinion, there's no such thing.

I think it's more accurate to say the "different ol' days." Instead of things and people really getting "worse," I think that we each lose our patience as we age. We resist change and we grow tired of things that once didn't bother us so much. As the world begins to look less and less like the world we grew up in, we begin to grouse about it.

Every generation seems to blame the one before and the one after for the things they don't like. They believe that the parents left a pile of problems and the kids are just making more.

Hasn't each generation uttered the words, "These kids today!"? Kids have always been lazy, looked ridiculous, talked strangely, listened to the wrong music, and had the wrong political beliefs in the view of their parents. It IS the cycle of life.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

ahhhhhhh the kids are alright.

give them a bit of slack............ they just finding themselves.

 

[radical matt]

Hm, it's way too complex to me. But then I've always been the good, respectful young man who didn't drink, smoke, party, listen to loud music, who dressed decently, studied hard, worked pretty hard, and took an interest in history, science, and math, all the while calling people older than me sir and ma'am.

...and in my old age (-grin-) I've started to realize that that wasn't all good of me, as I'm pretty segemented from my peers and as a result, from my society (we're SUPPOSED to be able to mesh with our peers, then we age together and do things like running nations and trying to make the world a better place together. Who ever heard of an individual "nice guy" doing anything?) So who knows?


For the record, the world changes, and things get worse. In the 50s, what was "bad" was far more tame than what is "bad" now, but the truth is there were people that did things that were socially unacceptable then. The fact that there is media, television, and the internet now lets "bad" kids know they aren't alone, which gives them more comfort in their "badness" (while doing the opposite to the "good" kids, trust me, I know...), but it's always true that there were bad apples, it just wasn't as apparent in the past, just like how wars are brutal, but until the modern age where we have pictures and video to SEE it, no one realized that except the people that were actually fighting and dieing.


All generations go through the same stuff, and everyone has their own trials. Kids are always a little lazy, and there are always bad apples. Young people see old people as stoic and annoying, just as the old people now saw their elders in their youth, and old people forget that they were a little lazy and had some wild adventures in their youth, and that that is what shaped their identity and gave them experiences which they called on in their older age.


...hm, maybe I'm not too old just yet... -shrug-