Gen X

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Originally Posted by Big E3

Most call them Gen X or Y, I call them the Borg.

The Gen Y and to a lesser degree X are the Borg. They go through life connected to the collective with a handheld device that they all stare at all day long. They appear to be in a trance. No one knows who is telling them what they should know, some say it is bots controlled by Bloomberg and Soros. They all went thru the public school indoctrination program for 12 years and on to advanced training (college) as future America haters. I believe that at night a subliminal message is played over and over while they sleep, “Democrat Good, Republican Bad”. If you confront a Gen X/Y’er they defend their wrong position as if they have been there done that when all they did was watch a U-Tube video. I used to just chalk it up as they just don’t know what they don’t know and someday they will learn the truth. I’m starting to think they will continue in life never finding the truth, a lot like Hippies did in the 60’s. They just want to believe what they think they “should” believe. And because they can go online and have their position validated, they believe they are smarter than you. When they vote it’s always democrat because they believe that the Boomers just picked the wrong democrat and they will pick a better democrat, a lot like people from other states moving here.

I know there are always exception to this. Some grew up with actual adult supervision, a knowledgeable mentor or did actual research from credible sources and turned out to be self-thinking people. This seems to be the exception rather than the rule.

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There is a huge difference between X and Y (Millennial). I noticed it even at 17 with the younger people in my Scout Troop. When I was 11, we did a week long 50 mile backpack trip in the Tetons. When I was 17, getting a 12 year old to carry his sleeping bag from the car 200 yards to the campsite was drama. At the time, I was like "What the hell is wrong with these kids?"- now we know...

We're bitching about the kids our generation (boomers) raised.

Whenever you turn your children over to a K-12 system run by pseudo-intellectual liberals, you have essentially let the 'system' train the children to believe the party line.

Somewhere, I forget where, someone said 'Give me a child to train from 6 to 12, and I will have him for life'. I'm not going to look up the reference.

Plato had the same complaints about the generation following his own.

I'm pretty sure everyone complaints about "those damn kids" going back either 200,000 or 5,999 years ago, depending on who you ask.

I view it as developmental milestones for the elderly. Kind of like how they track clapping and smiling for babys, if Grandpa isn't bitching about a lawn or those damn kids, he might be developmentally delayed.

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Originally Posted by FoxtArt

I'm pretty sure everyone complaints about "those damn kids" going back either 200,000 or 5,999 years ago, depending on who you ask.

I view it as developmental milestones for the elderly. Kind of like how they track clapping and smiling for babys, if Grandpa isn't bitching about a lawn or those damn kids, he might be developmentally delayed.

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In my case, however, they were only 5 years younger, not 55.

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Originally Posted by <MADDOG>

Where are we failing?

What did we do?

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I remember the great generation saying this about the boomers.

I'm a first year Gen X'er, so damn near a boomer. People criticizing Gen X for staring into a smartphone all day have to remember that most Gen X grew up without the Internet. We had to do research at the library, document it, then write it up on a typewriter. My first opportunity to use a computer was my Sr. year in high school in a class known as "Computer Math", because they didn't know what to call it. Writing programs in Apple Basic (stored on 5 1/4" floppies) and running them on Apple II and IIe computers.

My parents raised me very much like they were raised, including not sparing the rod. From what I understand of my generation, they tend to be conservative.

My parents (of the Silent Generation) thought the music I liked was "all noise", and I'd have to say the same for much of the music in the generations that followed mine. [Coffee]

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Originally Posted by Big E3

Most call them Gen X or Y, I call them the Borg.

The Gen Y and to a lesser degree X are the Borg. They go through life connected to the collective with a handheld device that they all stare at all day long. They appear to be in a trance. No one knows who is telling them what they should know, some say it is bots controlled by Bloomberg and Soros. They all went thru the public school indoctrination program for 12 years and on to advanced training (college) as future America haters. I believe that at night a subliminal message is played over and over while they sleep, “Democrat Good, Republican Bad”. If you confront a Gen X/Y’er they defend their wrong position as if they have been there done that when all they did was watch a U-Tube video. I used to just chalk it up as they just don’t know what they don’t know and someday they will learn the truth. I’m starting to think they will continue in life never finding the truth, a lot like Hippies did in the 60’s. They just want to believe what they think they “should” believe. And because they can go online and have their position validated, they believe they are smarter than you. When they vote it’s always democrat because they believe that the Boomers just picked the wrong democrat and they will pick a better democrat, a lot like people from other states moving here.

I know there are always exception to this. Some grew up with actual adult supervision, a knowledgeable mentor or did actual research from credible sources and turned out to be self-thinking people. This seems to be the exception rather than the rule.

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GenX is sick of your shit too. That's sure is a lot of talking, name calling and blaming others. Good luck with that.

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Originally Posted by Duman

We're bitching about the kids our generation (boomers) raised.

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Not quite. My parents were depression children not boomers. We raised ourselves. We cooked for ourselves and our siblings. We had jobs at 12 or 13. We came home by dark. We fought our own bully's. We didn't get handouts out participation medals. We are simple book-ended to to much selfishness and self importance. We are outvoted by everyone else. "Clowns to the left of me jokers to the right".

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Originally Posted by Delfuego

My parent were depression children not boomers.

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Yup- My Dad remembers being a small boy at home after church on a Sunday in December when the SHTF.

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Originally Posted by Delfuego

"Clowns to the left of me jokers to the right".

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Great motto for Gen X!

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Originally Posted by Delfuego

Not quite. My parent were depression children not boomers. We raised ourselves. We cooked for ourselves and our siblings. We had jobs at 12 or 13. We came home by dark. We fought our own bully's. We didn't get handouts out participation medals. We are simple book-ended to to much selfishness and self importance. We are outvoted by everyone else. "Clowns to the left of me jokers to the right".

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Sounds pretty familiar. My folks had parents that were part of the Lost Generation (my dad's father was born in the 19th century and fought in WWI). They were born during the Great Depression and were used to not having anything they didn't have to work for. They had similar expectations of my sister and I. Dad was drafted for the Korean War. Are those complaining about Gen X aware that some of us "crazy kids" are in our mid-50s? [Pop]