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This is something I heard said by Boomers and Gen X'ers about the generation born in 1990-present. They are "snowflakes", too soft, can't handle life. Would you say this is the case?
This is something I heard said by Boomers and Gen X'ers about the generation born in 1990-present. They are "snowflakes", too soft, can't handle life. Would you say this is the case?
that sort of thing is not new also but yea its never been easyIt is the times we live in. It would be the same as saying did the children in a war zone have no resilience?
Living in the world today is difficult for anybody. We do not live in peaceful times. UK has Brexit, I have Trump, then there are wars and civil disobedience in other countries.
As a gen Xer I think I was a snowflake because I had grown up with the more severe childhood adversity like many of the younger gens of today. Gen X many of them still had more intact homes and single mothers were still less common than by the time my first child would have been here. My first aborted child would be 19 and would have been born in 2000. So that kid would be so fucked up because I would have been an irresponsible single borderline personality disordered mother. We would have been in poverty dependent on state handouts and my god if the kid was a boy he would have no father not learning how to be a man. If she was a girl, she would repeat the cycle of promiscuity and out of wedlock pregnancy repeating the cycle of fatherlessness and state dependency potentially.This is something I heard said by Boomers and Gen X'ers about the generation born in 1990-present. They are "snowflakes", too soft, can't handle life. Would you say this is the case?
I would say so, not all of course but it's no fault of their own. They have grew up in a time when everything is there for them, mainly the internet. Every news story, video, picture, pretty much anything you want to see or find you can. It's a scary world, they read and see things that some should never have to. It's a completely different world to what other generations grew up with. As amazing as the internet is, it's can be dangerous having that much information so easily accessible at the touch of a button.This is something I heard said by Boomers and Gen X'ers about the generation born in 1990-present. They are "snowflakes", too soft, can't handle life. Would you say this is the case?
Yeah before 1990 when the www was invented we had to wait for a horse to come into town to tell us that the war was over. We felt like such fools. LolWhile grouping people is bad.... And of course all of below is just my beliefs, others can believe whatever.
The thing with gen X... the older ones (prior to 1973) seem to be more like Boomers than not, the 1973 and up are generally more like Millennial (some insurance companies even had 1976 as the Millennial start year!)--but the later years had game consoles, computers, cell phones, etc in school [depending--just the firsts of it]. One thing that many seem to agree with which is... weird... many wouldn't be opposed to an asteroid just killing them off. It's weird.. At least in my school/area I came from, the "Gen X" is the suicidal generation. Like a stop caring, world is screwed, why even bother generation. And they get called snowflakes too!
I guess what I'm saying is, different people just want to insult others, and they like grouping them up so it's a "us vs them" type of thing for simplicity. Things change over time. Things that were more deadly were made so people weren't risking their lives just for a job. Typewriters were changed for computers. Internet allowed people to see, instantly, what was happening all over the world, instead of needing to wait for a horse or something to deliver news from days ago from a town miles away. Now we can see what really happens, see real people's fears, beliefs -- where before we didn't. We know how events effect others. We see the daily struggles of everyday people.
As a result, each generation had a safer place to be, but realized how harsh the world really was. They found out they needed college, but found out that there was no guarantee they'd get a job even with a degree. And their parents (of any generation) didn't always teach them internet safety because they didn't know, so they found out about predators on their own. Environmental factors influence development just as much if not more than nurture. People born in war zones in the same time frame would be different than ones in other countries. I'd much rather generations be soft, than be exposed to endless pain and torture just to make them strong, so they become desensitized to others suffering--thing is, even if they were exposed to that, still no guarantee they wouldn't be suicidal.
Well I skipped a lot of years for space reasons lolYeah before 1990 when the www was invented we had to wait for a horse to come into town to tell us that the war was over. We felt like such fools. Lol
You know we had newspapers, tv and radio right? News all the way from around the world. And we were taught about real life predators. Because that was happening. We really knew what was really going on in real peoples lives even back then.Yeah before 1990 when the www was invented we had to wait for a horse to come into town to tell us that the war was over. We felt like such fools. Lol
Well they don't give you the impressions of hundreds to thousands of people, on the ground, common everyday people reporting first-hand experience without filters, providing even videos from just as many angles, and photos. News, tv, radio--they give short clips, and even edit that, you get longer clips, even if edited at start/end, from people who are on the ground just witnessing events.You know we had newspapers, tv and radio right? News all the way from around the world. And we were taught about real life predators. Because that was happening. We really knew what was really going on in real peoples lives even back then.
I think life is harsh and if people can't cope they should have a right to quit it. No matter if older people suffered more and coped with it. Nobody should be forced to endure a life they didn't ask for. I think the reason for suicide being on the rise these days too is that people are less religious and do not believe in myths of spending an eternity in hell.
If you've lived life for a while, I think it's common sense to a degree that life is harsh.In what way do you think life is harsh
If you've lived life for a while, I think it's common sense to a degree that life is harsh.
Life is harsh once you exist. As I've mentioned a lot of times existence is suffering. You'll go through suffering in school dealing with pressures among your peers, dealing with grades, toxic family environment etc. The list can go on. And most of the times almost everyone goes through this.Oh, don't get me wrong. I know life is a piece of shit. But I'm wondering what for you makes life harsh.