Raise your hand if you have ever heard that Millennials are the worst. That we are little pieces of shit who are lazy, fragile, and want everything handed to them. Oh, and how can I forget, we ruined the napkin industry.
Not only do I know plenty Millennials who do not fit this description, in fact most of my friends are the exact opposite. We are driven, smart, striving to live an independent life in a world that has made that virtually impossible, and we do not believe things should be handed to us. We believe that hard work pays off. What I find comical about older generations complaining about the younger ones is that it is tradition. Each generation thinks the next one is lazy and ruining everything that was good in the world. I was recently remind of this fact by a book I am reading, QBVII by Leon Uris. QBVII is about a post holocaust libel trail...excellent read but pretty unrelated to today's post. On page 72, however, there is an excerpt that seems a but familiar. "All that I was raised by is being ridiculed and it seems that nothing is being done to replace old ideas with new ones. The worst part of it is the young people are not happy. They have abstract thoughts about loving, mankind, and ending war, but they seem to want the price of life without working. They ridicule us, but we support them. They have poor little loyalty to one another and although sex is practiced in universal lots they don't understand the tenderness of an enduring relationship. Could all of this happen in only fifteen years? The dismantling of hundreds of years of civilization and tradition" Hmm, sound familiar to anyone? This book was released in 1970, think on that for a moment. It's been 48 years and no one can come up with new things to blame the young people for. So cheers to ruining society and cheers to blaming the next generation for doing the same.
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