Every generation is a product of the world they were born into. The world created and left to them by the previous generations.
And so, if any mocking is to be done, if any grievances are to be aired, if any blame is to be assigned... it should only ever be up the generation stack. Never down. The youngsters aren't to blame for the problems previous generations created, or failed to solve, or neglected to prevent.
Their time will come, to answer to whatever generations follow them, for the things they've done or left undone. In the mean time, you answer to them. Not the other way around.
That's fair to point, as it assumes each generation has a numerical superiority as it matures. For gen X, possibly in the first time in US history, this was not the case. Even today, as Boomers have begun dying off, they still outnumber Gen Xers. Not to mention that the demographic change came about at the exact time the GenXers were being born (1965). By the time the entire generation was able to vote (1998), even as a bloc of votes, there was 33 years of destruction already present.
It is going to take another 10 years of Boomers croaking off before gen X will outnumber their parents generation and can try to undo what they did. At that point, the oldest of us will 66 years old. We have been a minority our entire working lives.
[ + ] coldsoak
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[ + ] GloryBeckons
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Every generation is a product of the world they were born into. The world created and left to them by the previous generations.
And so, if any mocking is to be done, if any grievances are to be aired, if any blame is to be assigned... it should only ever be up the generation stack. Never down. The youngsters aren't to blame for the problems previous generations created, or failed to solve, or neglected to prevent.
Their time will come, to answer to whatever generations follow them, for the things they've done or left undone. In the mean time, you answer to them. Not the other way around.
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[ + ] GloryBeckons
[ - ] GloryBeckons 2 points 3.8 yearsAug 3, 2021 13:43:22 ago (+2/-0)
The older we get, the more time we have to figure things out, and know better, and make something of it. And so, the more responsibility we bear.
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It is going to take another 10 years of Boomers croaking off before gen X will outnumber their parents generation and can try to undo what they did. At that point, the oldest of us will 66 years old. We have been a minority our entire working lives.
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[ - ] fightknightHERO 2 points 3.8 yearsAug 3, 2021 17:41:20 ago (+2/-0)
It's truly the manly thing to do...
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