Sensible Tirade There’s a hot new trend on the interwebz: throwing shade at other generations.
It wasn’t long ago when the whole world’s ire was focused directly on the Millennials. They could do no right. The economy, work culture, and everything else was their fault alone.
Never mind the bang-up job their parents (looking at you Boomers) did to make them this way – what ever way that is.
Blaming the new generation on the block is a rite of passage that no body wants, and no one realizes they’re doing to someone else.
Look, every generation crossing from adolescence to adulthood have a coping problem. They’re new here and still learning how it works. The rules are changing around them. The things they were told they would need to prepare them for the future are no longer relevant.
Of course there will be transitional problem.
Every new generation are told they are the laziest generation yet. It happened to Gen X too, but the short memories of humanity forget the name calling of the late 80s and early 90s. Don’t feel too bad Millennials, Gen X was also told they were the downfall of modern society.
This is how the infighting of the generations move on. Blame it on the next set, take no responsibility.
Each generation has their own quirks. It’s not like all of this happened in a vacuum and we divided ourselves by year.
Quick Generation Breakdown
- Boomer: Self absorbed
- Gen X: Pissed off and generally forgotten about.
- Millennials: Smart kids looking for chill.
- Gen Z: Mostly useless without wifi. Current candidate to ruin modern society.
So what happens then with the generation warfare – or should we call them internet potshots?
The boomer are old and in a fight to stay relevant. This in turn is pissing off the Gen X who have been told their entire life to wait their turn. While they were waiting the Millennials moved in to the action. Now the Millennials are solidly middle aged and Gen Z are the new kids who appear to cause the next great downfall.
Gen X is the most interesting of the lot. They were coming up as divorce became all the rage. The first generation to experience single parent or two working parents, they had to cope with figuring out things by themselves. They had house keys at age eight, went to the store on their own, and where the last generation to spend most of their summer outside.
Oddly enough, Gen X is now known (we they are remembered) for working hard after years of being called a lost generation.
They really have been forgotten in the poles. News programs reporting generation stories sometimes make no mention, causing an interweb response that screams, “Hey dumb ass, we’re still here.”
In response, some new Gen Z kid calls Gen X the worst. And so it goes. The cycle continuing through time.
Millennials are grateful the spotlight isn’t on them. They’re too busy settling into their first home as they approach 40. They’ve done their time with the abuse the Boomers laid on them. The time will come when they take on The Alphas.
None of it is real.
We’re given these labels that become part of our identity.
Perhaps the internet driven generational warfare is one more way they(whoever they are) break us into groups to have something to argue about. Like politics and social issues, it is all designed to distract us.
Except the Boomers. Seriously you guys, knock it off.