Comments by "" (@kate2create738) on "Boomers are Still Up to Their Old Tricks" video.

  1. Because they were born in a time it is a luxury to be a kid, when society drops the ball someone has to pick it up. The wise kids know they don’t have any more chances to mess it up. Perhaps taking a step back to see the amount of pressure they are understand will reform this notion they are “boring,” but are more intelligent to understand the scope of problems they have to solve cause all of the other “adults” slacked off basic responsibility to run an effective society on top of expecting these kids to somehow build a family. They have every right to be very sour with what they inherited.
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  2. Unfortunately Gen X is very late to the game, I don’t know how likely it’s going to be effective when it’s shortened that window space for Gen X to do what needs to be done. As a millennial, my generation is changing direction, but we still have a lot of brain dead idiots that I’m not sure how likely we can just shirk off. Generation Jones (the younger version of the Boomers that never followed the hippie movement) made that mistake with the Boomers thinking their revolution died down, and the Boomers that were the socialists took roles that essentially affected every part of running a country: government, academia, media, etc. I’m not wanting the same to happen for our future where we let our guard down and the socialists infiltrate our society again. And to get a handle of this is going to take decades to undo the damage at this point.
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  3. I wouldn’t say the Greatest or the Silent generation had any problems with drinking, they were born around the time of the Prohibition period or after it was lifted, but there was still an incentive to encourage social spaces in the parlor and ice cream was the replacement. Doesn’t mean they didn’t drink nor did some get addictive, however the Boomers were the ones who PARTIED. My local university still is impacted by the party days of the 80’s that the town has tried to fight off this reputation of partying that was started by the Boomers. I personally went to a different school on the other side of the state because this university has a reputation that despite the low down on the partying in the recent generations, that university is stuck being known as a party campus and it was mainly from the Boomers. Now smoking was the addiction that the Greatest and the Silent generation couldn’t drop, didn’t help that the mindset when they were younger was it was somehow “healthy.”
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  4. You could be a Generation Jones, they tend to be mixed in the Boomer generation but missed the hippie period. I’d say a lot of Generation Jones had more backbone than most of the Boomers, some made a few mistakes, but they were an asset to the technology boom we had in the 80’s and 90’s.
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  5. I think of it more as it speaks to how certain events affect different people as they age. Take events like 9/11 as every generation alive at the time have various yet shared understanding of such events. Like the Boomers were likely the generation that had friends and family impacted, Gen X similar but perhaps not as much as the Boomers as they were in their young adolescence yet were aware and they were the ones who likely took on military roles to serve their country. Millennials (speaking for myself) is a mixed bunch as many of us do remember this event and have it in the back of our minds while a lot of other Millennials likely blanked it out as they had a hard time comprehending it as it was something that we still don’t have all of the answers to this day. Or there was the number of Millennials that were raised in a bubble their parents created so that these Millennials never have to feel any stress (ironic how that turned out.) Then we look and examine how the Greatest and the Silent generation looked on with a flashback to the times of WWII when their home country was under attack. Looking at this from an American’s perspective, our Silent and Greatest generation were likely thinking of Pearl Harbor. And now we have Gen Z who are currently discovering the impact of 9/11 as they are adults, and the horror that the world had to watch. As a Millennial I’ve tried my best yo explain the difference that day had for Americans and the west was night and day, as the life of an American before that event was carefree. Unfortunately Gen Z had to grow up in a time of anxiety taking control and it has affected a lot to not have the proper demonstration to have some stoicism to push them through ordeals. You can reflect this with any other events like when computers started to be accessible to homes and how that impacted different generations, or the moon landing, etc. However it is important if we prioritize the individual first, but we should still call out if there is a pattern of behavior that needs to be noted to the general group to be aware of how they are perceived to hopefully reflect and improve themselves. Every generation has their strengths and issues to work on, the key is to understand that we do our part to use those skills to help society and to grow to improve those weaknesses into maybe something that can be an asset.
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  6. If we had to have a reference to generally describe the generations, I’d say a good summary of the Baby Boomer generation is Pleasure Island, there is something about that generation that has been so destructive both to themselves and everyone else all for their selfish sense of pleasure. And we millennials are Pinocchio that partook in a few of the activities so is no better but was able to witness enough to know to stop before filling transforming into a jackass. A lot of us millennials were impressionable and not critically thinking things as thoroughly as we should have, the last 10 years has been a wake up call to many however we still have a percentage that supports the socialist mentality and we are going to have to deal with them for the rest of our lives. Miserably.
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  7.  @TheBcoolGuy  Not really, there does seem to be a difference between the older Boomers versus the younger Boomers that it never made real sense they were seen as one generation. Many in the older Boomers at least were old enough to remember when JFK was assassinated or at least understood there was tension when the event happened, something the younger Boomers don’t have that experience with.
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