This Generation Is Fucked

[blackrave]

I still believe we should blame rap music regardless the generation.

Nonsense!
D&D is responsible for everything bad.

Kids these days with their D&D rappers...

50 Copper and Ludi'drizz't?

 

[Someone Depressing]

Can't we just agree that everyone's fucked? Because I was sort-of born and raised inbetween generations, so side-picking is really hard and sort of stupid.

Yeah, this generation is fucked. Not because of its culture or social practices, both of which are abhorrent and I am so disappointed in you and myself where did I go wrong ect, but because of the generation before it. Things can only get worse from here, but because things are perfect and amazing, but because human beings are too immature to handle the vast technological advancements that will come in, say, the next decade or so. Shit's moving forward, but we're not using it for the right purposes.

So yes, this generation is fucked. So was the last one. And the one before that. It's like a descendo of rapidly descending failure.

 

[Atmos Duality]

People talk about entitlement being a problem -- and it is -- but there have been and will continue to be bums and losers in every generation.

Oh yes, a tool-using species wanting and having things...in a material culture!
Truly scandalous and a problem to define our time.

Try learning the elementary definitions of words you're using before using them, mkay?

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

One day, OP will remember posting this thread and will think, "God, I was such an uptight little turd back then, wasn't I?"

Don't worry OP, we've all gone through this phase of our lives. It'll pass.

 

[Erttheking]

Yeah, the economy is shit and no one seems to care about the long term stability of the environment. Well, no one in a position to do something about it. And student loans...I have a nasty feeling that's gonna come back to bite us all. No idea how, when, or how hard, but I have a sinking feeling about it.

I'll take annoying ass facebook and twitter bullshit over having atomic attack drills though. So yeah things are gonna get rough, but look at the bright side. We don't have do deal with some of the bullshit baby boomers had to.

On the other hand extremism is spreading all around the world.

I just want to point out that extremism all over the world? Nothing new at all. We're just finally noticing it.

 

[happyninja42]

I happen to be a part of this generation, and honestly whenever someone says some thing along these lines, I hate it. As if you guys were any better. I think that people are feeling old and are refusing to accept change. This coming from a guy whose parents are extremely traditional, I used to be only allowed to play my GameBoy for 30 minutes a day. Maybe I'm just bitter, but imagine how you feel when Fox News talks shit about gaming. I don't necessarily agree with everything my generation has come up with, but jeez give us a chance. You guys weren't the best role models either.

Anyway, just wanted to ask what you guys really do think about our generation.

I'm sorry but do you think you're the only generation to hear this line? Wake up pal, but every generation says this to the next one. It's just the way things are. So kindly get off your Panty Twisting High Horse, and stop with your pre-loaded passive aggressive rant at us when none of us said anything like that to you. Because news flash, I don't care enough about you to tell you that you're fucked.

Thank you for your annoying little thread that amounted to basically "whah, people annoy me when they say things I don't like"

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I hope to god that my generation learns from their mistakes, and makes things easier for those that follow.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the likelihood is high that when members of your generation reach the halls of power, the majority will look around, say "I like how this is" and keep things going just as they are. How do I know? The very same thing happened with my generation.

Welcome to the human condition.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Old people freed the slaves, old people allowed multi racial couples, old people gave women the vote, old people invented the god damn internet. We're not fucked but we sure as hell are living in others success more so than our own.

Certainly, but then that's been true of humans since the dawn of time...barring social collapses every so often.

 

[Paradoxrifts]

?Our youth now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.? -Aristophenes, Circa 420 BC

The whole "The children are going to ruin everything!" sentiment has been around as long as humans have lived.

But the eventual decline of Hellenistic Greece and it's subsequent absorption into the Roman Empire clearly demonstrates that somewhere along the line the children that Aristophenes referred to did indeed ruin everything.

 

[Thaluikhain]

?Our youth now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.? -Aristophenes, Circa 420 BC

The whole "The children are going to ruin everything!" sentiment has been around as long as humans have lived.

But the eventual decline of Hellenistic Greece and it's subsequent absorption into the Roman Empire clearly demonstrates that somewhere along the line the children that Aristophenes referred to did indeed ruin everything.

Decline of Athens and the Delian League, you mean, most of the rest of Greece remained minor city states and petty factions fighting amongst themselves anyway. Arguably, the decline started at about the time Aristophenes said that, before the young had a chance to grow up and cause the problems, so nyer.

(Of course, the Romans also kept saying that things were better 50 years ago, and they had quite a few leaders who were very good at ensuring things weren't as good as they had been)

 

[beastro]

I would make the arguments that the rising rights of minorities is the biggest determining factor. What is the point of celebrating the accomplishments of previous generations when only a small percentage of the world population (white males) actually got to enjoy it.

I love the reverse trend of the next generation ruining the world, things like the above quote which hate past generations just as equally and as stupidly as those that hate future ones.

Saying the past was shit because [insert handful of issues important to me] weren't the way I like them is just as immature and silly as saying [insert handful of issues important to older people] that have changed have made the world terrible now.

I find it the most aggravating with social issues and the mentality of people like the above who think it's abhorrent to like or even be proud of the past before their own specific cut off date because of matters they've made central to their own personal world view.

 

[lacktheknack]

It depends where you are in the world.

There are screwed generations all over the place, it's just a question of where.

By the same token, there's some really epic futures in line for this generations. Again, it's a question of where.

I don't have high hopes for America and Europe's immediate futures. Africa and Southeast Asia? There's some real potential there.

 

[Parasondox]

Here is an image that may fit this thread.

Yeah I do feel your annoyance.

"This generation is so lazy"
"This generation complains too much"
"This... SHUT UP!!"

As many have said already, each generation thinks they are the best, they assume the next generation lack everything and the previous generation was too strict and "old". That cycle of thought won't stop and will just keep going and going and going. Now if you will excuse me, I need to get me some warm milk.

 

[beastro]

?Our youth now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.? -Aristophenes, Circa 420 BC

The whole "The children are going to ruin everything!" sentiment has been around as long as humans have lived.

But the eventual decline of Hellenistic Greece and it's subsequent absorption into the Roman Empire clearly demonstrates that somewhere along the line the children that Aristophenes referred to did indeed ruin everything.

Decline of Athens and the Delian League, you mean, most of the rest of Greece remained minor city states and petty factions fighting amongst themselves anyway. Arguably, the decline started at about the time Aristophenes said that, before the young had a chance to grow up and cause the problems, so nyer.

(Of course, the Romans also kept saying that things were better 50 years ago, and they had quite a few leaders who were very good at ensuring things weren't as good as they had been)

It was much more than the Athenian Empire. One could clearly see the justifiable disgust of many Spartans towards their people after the Peloponnesian War for becoming addicted to empire building, the disgusting curse of the Athenians, at the cost of their traditional love of peace and stability within the Greek world.

Others, like Corinth, were shadows of themselves with their populations depleted or their people's becoming divided and conquered in turn as what happened to the Diadochi.

 

[beastro]

Here is an image that may fit this thread.

Yeah I do feel your annoyance.

"This generation is so lazy"
"This generation complains too much"
"This... SHUT UP!!"

As many have said already, each generation things they are the best, they assume the next generation lack everything and the previous generation was too strict and "old". That cycle of thought won't stop and will just keep going and going and going. Now if you will excuse me, I need to get me some warm milk.

A good example of this is the Greatest Generation, though for sympathetic reasons.

Having lived with hardship, toil and immense suffering they were determined to make the next have everything they didn't growing up only to produce the Baby Boomers, forgetting that suffering was tempered and hone themselves.

 

[ForumSafari]

I don't think 'fucked' exactly but I do think there are problems. On the one hand this generation si accepting of others and concerned about working together nicely. On the other hand this generation seems a bit limp and isn't great at telling when harsh action is needed or when their acceptance is being abused.

 

[chikusho]

We're not fucked but we sure as hell are living in others success more so than our own.

So basically this generation is exactly like every human generation since the dawning of the species?

 

[conmag9]

I still believe we should blame rap music regardless the generation.

Nonsense!
D&D is responsible for everything bad.

Kids these days with their D&D rappers...

50 Copper and Ludi'drizz't?

Aaaaaand now I'm going to be laughing all day. Continuously. Clean through a birthday party (not mine). Thanks for that.

OT:
I think I'll join the choir and point out that just about every generation.

Decades past and old folks say
"Things were much better way back in my day!
Kids these days are just lazy and rude!
This generation is so totally screwed!

They can't talk to each other,
cause they're always on Twitter.
Job hunting's too hard?
Get back at it, quitter!

They got their own cars,
TV fills up their days!
I walked to school in the snow
UPHILL BOTH WAYS!

Sure the environment's dooomed
Economy's our doing
But yeah, it's their fault!
With their games and computing'"

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

My father regularly tells me my generation isn't going to turn out well, not because we're a bunch of "socially inept, lazy slackers" but because he looks back at his generation and the problems they left for us to deal with. Social security pops up a lot, my grandparents didn't think social security would exist by the time my dad retires, my parents don't think social security will exist by the time I retire.

For reference...

1901-1924: The Greatest Generation[footnote]That is not my opinion, that's what it's called[/footnote]
1925-1942: The Silent Generation
1943-1960: The Baby Boomers
1961-1980: Generation X
1981-2000: Generation Y (Millennials)[footnote]This is the generation that currently gets the most heat.[/footnote]
2001-Present: Generation Z

[sub](I got all that from Wikipedia so not the most trusting of sources)[/sub]


Funny enough, my father was born in 1954, that makes him a baby boomer, I was born in 1989, that makes me a millennial. My father is the operations manager for an irrigation company and he's told me before "I don't know what happened, between your generation and mine, there seems to be this group of lazy slackers!"

That would be generation X... which traditionally gets heat for being a bunch of lazy slackers, consequently also the generation that comes immediately after his. I wonder what my generation will think (wrongly) about generation Z?[footnote]The oldest would be 14, not old enough to think they're going to ruin the world yet IMO[/footnote]


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As for anyone who thinks the millennials are fucked, try showing them this white house data [http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/millennials_report.pdf]. Maybe they should be proud of what they've raised. If the goal of every generation is to give the next a better life than they had growing up, they're doing a good job of it.

Spoiler

-Millennials are now the largest, most diverse generation in the U.S. population

-More Millennials have a college degree than any other generation of young adults. With so many Millennials enrolling in college, there has been an unprecedented expansion of higher education to lower-income and underrepresented minority students.

-Millennials are not only the most highly educated U.S. generation to date, but a larger share of that increase has come from the educational attainment of women. Millennial women are attending college and attaining degrees in greater numbers than in the past.

-Millennials are a technologically connected, diverse, and tolerant generation. The priority that Millennials place on creativity and innovation augurs well for future economic growth, while their unprecedented enthusiasm for technology has the potential to bring change to traditional economic institutions as well as the labor market. For example, ?crowdfunding? has enabled entrepreneurs to raise capital from diffuse sources online, rather than relying on traditional sources like banks to grow their businesses.

-Total outstanding student loan debt has now surpassed $1 trillion in the second quarter of 2014, and there has been a recent increase in student debt delinquency rates even as delinquency rates on other types of debt have come down as the economy has recovered. In part, the growth of student loan debt is due to greater college enrollment among Millennials, but it is also due to a changing composition of students, rising tuition, reduced public funding, and diminished home equity.

So, while there are substantial challenges to meet, no generation has been better equipped to overcome them than Millennials. They are skilled with technology, determined, diverse, and more educated than any previous generation. Millennials are still in the early stages of joining and participating in the labor market. Taking steps to help them access and complete college, manage their student debt, have better opportunities for training and connection to jobs, access the credit they need for a home, protect the network neutrality that is the basis for much of their technological activity, as well as general policies to strengthen investment, job creation and wage growth, all have the potential to have a lasting impact for this generation and thus for U.S. economic performance for decades to come.

Now generation Z, they're really fucked. There's going to be no social security, to much dept, "talking to people face to face" won't be a thing, just, yeah they're fucked big time!

 

[ToastiestZombie]

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You sound like you think that the rights of minorities is the biggest determining factor when it comes to how "successful" a generation is. It's too early to see what people born in the late 80s and 90s will be like in the future, but social acceptance doesn't mean anything when the leaders of the world are incompetent, lazy, idiotic, selfish, etc.

I would make the arguments that the rising rights of minorities is the biggest determining factor. What is the point of celebrating the accomplishments of previous generations when only a small percentage of the world population (white males) actually got to enjoy it.

Not really. Without Churchill, Roosevelt, etc we'd be living under Nazi rule, without Martin Luther King and the civil rights movements black minorities would still be lynched for kissing a white girl. My point is that if it weren't for "white males" and revolutionary (not just violent revolutions) figures/movements in the past then we'd be much worse off than we are now. Things like slavery, the native american genocide, the treatment of blacks in the 50s were utter shit but you've got to remember that people in the past weren't racist monsters out to kill all minorities.