I hate how right this is. It’s been a boomer world since before I was born, and I’ve spent the past 4 decades waiting for it to end already. Not only my generation, but the one before it and the two after have been completely passed over. Our elders are too busy being completely addled with their addiction to relevance and self-importance that they actually believe anyone younger than them is just a child that needs a firm hand and ‘tough love’ to ‘straighten them out’. ‘News reports’ like this further enforce this idea; the world is full of idiot kids that they, mighty boomers, need to stand in front of in order to ‘right the ship’.
Apparently the world is going to hell in a hand basket kids, and the only way to fix it is to revert back to a world that makes those over 60 feel comfortable and righteous in.
Our elders are too busy being completely asked with their addiction to relevance and self-importance
When the media started harping about how self-involved millenials were because they were taking selfies, my first thought was, "These are the same fuckers that made Forrest Gump and the Wonder Years.
The Wonder Years premiered in 1988, set in 1968. That’s like if someone today produced a TV show about how nice and wholesome it was to grow up in 2006. (Except it’s not, because even when the show was inevitably rebooted in 2021, it was still set in 1968. Because Boomers still needed that nostalgia hit.)
100% agree with you. My childhood was so steeped in the nostalgia of a generation that hit its prime before I was born that I legitimately knew more about 60’s and 70’s popular culture than I did about the popular culture in my own time because of how hijacked it was by boomer nostalgia. Even in media designed for my generation, the message was clear: boomer culture was the peak culture and anything that came after was a cheap imitation or flat out ‘wrong’.
Let me be clear: millennials have their own issues with nostalgia, and I also see some of us giving younger people the same treatment: ‘oh you don’t remember that song/movie/actor from when I was growing up and you weren’t even born yet?! Did you even have a childhood?!’ type of crap. While this isn’t ok either, I can’t help but wonder if because that’s the attitude we received from our elders growing up, some of us use it for a template to handle our own feelings of irrelevance as we age. My message to these people as well as a reminder to myself as I get even older: let the youths be. Let them enjoy being young and see it simply as that. It has nothing to do with you, and your job is to listen to them and nurture their efforts to improve their world so they can continue to do so for those that come after them.
I hate how right this is. It’s been a boomer world since before I was born, and I’ve spent the past 4 decades waiting for it to end already. Not only my generation, but the one before it and the two after have been completely passed over. Our elders are too busy being completely addled with their addiction to relevance and self-importance that they actually believe anyone younger than them is just a child that needs a firm hand and ‘tough love’ to ‘straighten them out’. ‘News reports’ like this further enforce this idea; the world is full of idiot kids that they, mighty boomers, need to stand in front of in order to ‘right the ship’.
Apparently the world is going to hell in a hand basket kids, and the only way to fix it is to revert back to a world that makes those over 60 feel comfortable and righteous in.
When the media started harping about how self-involved millenials were because they were taking selfies, my first thought was, "These are the same fuckers that made Forrest Gump and the Wonder Years.
The Wonder Years premiered in 1988, set in 1968. That’s like if someone today produced a TV show about how nice and wholesome it was to grow up in 2006. (Except it’s not, because even when the show was inevitably rebooted in 2021, it was still set in 1968. Because Boomers still needed that nostalgia hit.)
100% agree with you. My childhood was so steeped in the nostalgia of a generation that hit its prime before I was born that I legitimately knew more about 60’s and 70’s popular culture than I did about the popular culture in my own time because of how hijacked it was by boomer nostalgia. Even in media designed for my generation, the message was clear: boomer culture was the peak culture and anything that came after was a cheap imitation or flat out ‘wrong’.
Let me be clear: millennials have their own issues with nostalgia, and I also see some of us giving younger people the same treatment: ‘oh you don’t remember that song/movie/actor from when I was growing up and you weren’t even born yet?! Did you even have a childhood?!’ type of crap. While this isn’t ok either, I can’t help but wonder if because that’s the attitude we received from our elders growing up, some of us use it for a template to handle our own feelings of irrelevance as we age. My message to these people as well as a reminder to myself as I get even older: let the youths be. Let them enjoy being young and see it simply as that. It has nothing to do with you, and your job is to listen to them and nurture their efforts to improve their world so they can continue to do so for those that come after them.