We’re the first generation who were given a cool letter for a name, and now all the me-too generations want in on it even though it’s already gone mainstream and therefore super uncool.
“Our youth now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders, and they love to chatter instead of exercise. Children are now tyrants not servants of their household. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
Older millenial here.
Lately I have started to realize, we are the new boomers.
The number of my co-millenials I see complaining about Gen Z with the exact same talking points that boomers had about us is kinda ironic.
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We’re the first generation who were given a cool letter for a name, and now all the me-too generations want in on it even though it’s already gone mainstream and therefore super uncool.
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“Our youth now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders, and they love to chatter instead of exercise. Children are now tyrants not servants of their household. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
Socrates, about 2400 years ago.
It’s not ironic at all.
Gen Z will complain about the next generation, and blame problems on the previous generation(s).
Why is this surprising?
Everyone thinks they’re different.
We’re the new old farts, but the boomers were/are uniquely awful.