If only Millennials could kill HGTV. Seriously, my boomer parents are obsessed with House Hunters. Send help!
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And this is why I admire you right back.
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First. Obama, along with most Americans in his age group (like my parents) are often considered part of a “gap generation” (because generational cohorts are a stupid idea with little validity). While technically boomers (cause identifiable, statistical population boom). Too young to have experienced the defining cultural elements of boomers as a whole. But too old to have experience the prime Gen X years while still young, sexy and responsibilityless.
Second. You’re forgetting the massive amount of ink wasted on how awful Gen X was back in the late 80’s and Early 90’s. And ignoring the large number of certified Gen Xers slinging massive bullshit about Millennials. Even as a middle schooler hearing about how Gen Xers were lazy, shiftless, and destroying America with their inability to care about anything it made zero sense.
It’s just even more pointless now. Since the whole “millennial” concept is so meaningless, and people have been bitching about them for 20+ years now. I mean seriously. People are writing insane “kids these days” articles about near 40 year olds with children, homes, and careers at this point.
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tyvm 
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Sounds like more of that fake news to me!
" best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It’s covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections"
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I have been saying just this ----/\
For some time now. Everything attributed to Millennials is just the same shtick of older people forgetting how young people behave. Every so often a new generation is to blame, but the complaints are all the same.
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Seneca said it best in the 1st century,
“Our young men have grown slothful. There is not a single honorable occupation for which they will toil night and day. They sing and dance and grow effeminate and curl their hair and learn womanish tricks of speech; they are as languid as women and deck themselves out with unbecoming ornaments. Without strength, without energy, they add nothing during life to the gifts with which they were born — then they complain of their lot.”
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The thing is, watch does not mean TV. It includes it to be sure but that’s only part. Heck, there are so many great news options on Youtube alone that one can be very well informed on that website alone. I watch Thom Hartmann but not on TV and he’s far from having a capitalist slant.
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I was latchkey with a single parent. From the age of 6.
It would be generalizing to say the entire X gen raised itself, but I know you and I aren’t total outliers.
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The chart they should have included with the article is this one - Young adults are less enthusiastic about news , but they are more likely to get news online
Follow news all or most of the time:
- 18-29 - 27%
- 30-49 - 46%
- 50-64 - 61%
- 65+ - 77%
I’m feeling uneasy about young adults choosing not to follow news. If they’re only getting current event information from social media, they’re living in a place with very skewed vision.
Don’t be ridiculous. We were raised by Sesame Street. Was there a single dry Gen-X eye when Jim Henson died? (Not counting pot-related dry-eye, obviously.)
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And the Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact, and Schoolhouse Rock.
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Interesting, but I bet there’s a selection bias that comes into that, regarding what people of different ages consider “all or most of the time.” Young people have high levels of information metabolism, so to speak. A few times per week may feel like only “part of the time” to them when it often feels like “most of the time” to someone older, as an example.
HEY YOU GUYS!!!
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You must be way more right-on than me. Go you!
As opposed to Boomers who watch Fox or read the Daily Mail, you mean?
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Careful, I hear that makes them just as bad as the fascists…
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Similar, but different. Different because when you know they watch only FOXnews, you know what kind of info they’re getting , whereas with FB, they may be seeing “news” about the flat earth, lizard people, and how breastfeeding hurts babies. Or how pink hats are saving the world. Or how there’s some rain falling on Texas, but since they’re in Missouri, is doesn’t matter.
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“I believe that children are our future. Unless we do something to stop them now!” - Homer Simpson
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