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02 Jul 2019, 4:56 pm

Like title says, how would you describe the new 18 to 25 year olds?



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02 Jul 2019, 5:11 pm

My generation:

Entitled, narcissistic, vain, pampered, uneducated, gullible, unambitious, lethargic, uninteresting, scornful, irreverent, tasteless, classless, conformist, dull, spiteful, sadistic, feckless, emotionally incontinent, unempathetic, irreligious, immoral, nihilistic, disloyal, dishonest, undependable, uninspiring, unscrupulous, rude, nasty, rootless, disrespectful, dishonourable, cowardly, incompetent, intolerant, uncouth, bigoted, violent, badly-dressed, slovenly.

I could go on all day. I just wish I were the age I am now in - say - 1949. Not one virtue exists today.

Needless to say, there are many honourable exceptions.



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02 Jul 2019, 5:14 pm

More tolerant and socially aware than the teens of my childhood.


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02 Jul 2019, 5:15 pm

Prometheus18 wrote:
My generation:

Entitled, narcissistic, vain, pampered, uneducated, gullible, unambitious, lethargic, uninteresting, scornful, irreverent, tasteless, classless, conformist, dull, spiteful, sadistic, feckless, emotionally incontinent, unempathetic, irreligious, immoral, nihilistic, disloyal, dishonest, undependable, uninspiring, unscrupulous, rude, nasty, rootless, disrespectful, dishonourable, cowardly, incompetent, intolerant, uncouth, bigoted, violent, badly-dressed, slovenly.

I could go on all day. I just wish I were the age I am now in - say - 1949. Not one virtue exists today.

Needless to say, there are many honourable exceptions.


1940's aye? sure if your a white straight male id imagine it would be pretty sweet. :wink:



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02 Jul 2019, 5:17 pm

enz wrote:
Prometheus18 wrote:
My generation:

Entitled, narcissistic, vain, pampered, uneducated, gullible, unambitious, lethargic, uninteresting, scornful, irreverent, tasteless, classless, conformist, dull, spiteful, sadistic, feckless, emotionally incontinent, unempathetic, irreligious, immoral, nihilistic, disloyal, dishonest, undependable, uninspiring, unscrupulous, rude, nasty, rootless, disrespectful, dishonourable, cowardly, incompetent, intolerant, uncouth, bigoted, violent, badly-dressed, slovenly.

I could go on all day. I just wish I were the age I am now in - say - 1949. Not one virtue exists today.

Needless to say, there are many honourable exceptions.


1940's aye? sure if your a white straight male id imagine it would be pretty sweet. :wink:


^ Yes lol :lol:


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02 Jul 2019, 5:20 pm

I do nothing but think about how much better things used to be. I agree that perhaps the one good thing about the contemporary world is racial equality (although it's threatened again due to quotas, "positive" discrimination and "safe spaces"), but even as a black man, I'd prefer to live in times that still had values. The extent of racism in those days is wildly exaggerated anyway. Most ordinary white, middle class Americans had nothing against black people, just a few, unrepresentative extremists.



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02 Jul 2019, 5:24 pm

For the record every older generation (or young person thinking like the older generation) always looks down on the younger generation with contempt. They always claim that the younger people are spoiled ungrateful brats as if they were any better than us. It's always been like that.


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02 Jul 2019, 5:27 pm

TheRevengeofTW1ZTY wrote:
For the record every older generation (or young person thinking like the older generation) always looks down on the younger generation with contempt. They always claim that the younger people are spoiled ungrateful brats as if they're better than us. It's always been like that.


I don't think that's necessarily true; my grandparents' generation seems, somehow, to admire my generation. It's painful seeing sixty year olds put on jeans and go to Glastonbury.

But even if it were true, it wouldn't mean that they're wrong to think the way you describe them as thinking.



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02 Jul 2019, 5:27 pm

They actually seem pretty similar to the 18-25 year olds I knew when I was 18-25.



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02 Jul 2019, 5:29 pm

Prometheus18 wrote:
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For the record every older generation (or young person thinking like the older generation) always looks down on the younger generation with contempt. They always claim that the younger people are spoiled ungrateful brats as if they're better than us. It's always been like that.


I don't think that's necessarily true; my grandparents' generation seems, somehow, to admire my generation. It's painful seeing sixty year olds put on jeans and go to Glastonbury.

But even if it were true, it wouldn't mean that they're wrong to think the way you describe them as thinking.


Believe whatever you want. It's the truth. Old people always look down on young people, unless they're open minded like my mom or your grandparents.

Most people in this world are pretty close-minded.


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02 Jul 2019, 5:32 pm

My mom is 50 and doesn't despise Millennials and think they're "narcissistic" the way you and most people her age do.

Also many millennials work their asses off. Just because they still live with their parents in this s**t economy that doesn't make them lazy.


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02 Jul 2019, 5:33 pm

Prometheus18 wrote:
I do nothing but think about how much better things used to be. I agree that perhaps the one good thing about the contemporary world is racial equality (although it's threatened again due to quotas, "positive" discrimination and "safe spaces"), but even as a black man, I'd prefer to live in times that still had values. The extent of racism in those days is wildly exaggerated anyway. Most ordinary white, middle class Americans had nothing against black people, just a few, unrepresentative extremists.

You're being naive on this one. Even in my youth things were a lot worse in that regard that they are today and a lot of people assumed that the rest of us white males think the same way and would express their prejudice quite openly and nastily. My American friends told me similar stories too.


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02 Jul 2019, 5:35 pm

TheRevengeofTW1ZTY wrote:
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TheRevengeofTW1ZTY wrote:
For the record every older generation (or young person thinking like the older generation) always looks down on the younger generation with contempt. They always claim that the younger people are spoiled ungrateful brats as if they're better than us. It's always been like that.


I don't think that's necessarily true; my grandparents' generation seems, somehow, to admire my generation. It's painful seeing sixty year olds put on jeans and go to Glastonbury.

But even if it were true, it wouldn't mean that they're wrong to think the way you describe them as thinking.


Believe whatever you want. It's the truth. Old people always look down on young people, unless they're open minded like my mom or your grandparents.

Most people in this world are pretty close-minded.

I think my grandparents in particular are more of my way of thinking, but others their age seem largely not to be. I wish the old kept their distance a little more though; by mollycoddling the young, they prevent the young from growing up. This is it; I have no hatred for my generation at all, only pity for the fact that, quite largely, the previous two generations abandoned it, withdrawing the requisite cross-generational guidance it needed, hence the qualities listed above.



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02 Jul 2019, 5:36 pm

TheRevengeofTW1ZTY wrote:
My mom is 50 and doesn't despise Millennials and think they're "narcissistic" the way you and most people her age do.

Also many millennials work their asses off. Just because they still live with their parents in this s**t economy that doesn't make them lazy.


I'm in my 50s too and don't despise Millennials. They are no better or worst than previous generations. Human nature stays the same, the form in which it expresses itself changes. Generally speaking, previous generations didn't have significantly better values, but they did a much better job in being duplicitous about it.


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02 Jul 2019, 5:37 pm

BenderRodriguez wrote:
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I do nothing but think about how much better things used to be. I agree that perhaps the one good thing about the contemporary world is racial equality (although it's threatened again due to quotas, "positive" discrimination and "safe spaces"), but even as a black man, I'd prefer to live in times that still had values. The extent of racism in those days is wildly exaggerated anyway. Most ordinary white, middle class Americans had nothing against black people, just a few, unrepresentative extremists.

You're being naive on this one. Even in my youth things were a lot worse in that regard that they are today and a lot of people assumed that the rest of us white males think the same way and would express their prejudice quite openly and nastily. My American friends told me similar stories too.


Of course they were worse in this regard - but I still think their society was better than ours in most ways.



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02 Jul 2019, 5:38 pm

millenials are unfairly maligned.
The ones I know are decent, caring, hardworking and switched on.
Of course that doesn't speak for all of them, but you can't anyway.
Thats like people saying all autistics are like Rain Man.


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