The amount of anger in these posts leave me astounded. I'm a member of the Silent Generation, the mother of two Generation X children, and the grandmother of six Millennials. I was delighted to find that they had rejected the name Gen-Y and found a more meaningful name.
My children should have chosen a zingier name for their generation. Perception beats reality to a pulp, and if you had even called yourselves Generation 13, as some historians do, it would have sounded less negative. It's not too late. I taught my children to never give up. I think about my Gen-X children and I want to call them Generation Liberty. They are intelligent, independent, but have definite ambitions and goals.
Just wanted to tell you that the Boomers may have gotten in your way, and stood between you and the sun, but their sheer numbers caused that. Every generation wants its season in the sun.
Just rename yourselves. And publicize it worldwide. Generation Liberty fits you better than anything else you've ever been called.
Don't be upset at the Millennials. They've inherited what the Silents, the Boomers and the Gen-Xers (Liberty Gens) created. Life is short and we can't have it all. We created it for them, and for all of the generations that will follow us. There are far more important reasons for anger. Defending the helpless, rather than thinking about yourself and how you are perceived, is one of them.
I was born in 1939. I turned my children on to the Beatles, Mad Magazine, Star Wars, E.T., reading good science fiction & fantasy, and Walt Kelly. My children turned me on to Dr. Demento, Dr. Who, Alternative Rock, and seafood. My son has a '72 Dodge Charger and collects vintage cars. My daughter and I cry watching "Steel Magnolias" and are passing on Jane Austen to her Millennial daughters. One Millennial grandson is becoming a programmer (his Gen-X father is a programmer, too), and another grandson has turned me on to the art of Anime and Japanese cartoons.
All three of the living generations in my family love forties musicals. So? Open up, enjoy, and quit doing what you accuse the Millennials of doing: whining. It's time for you to grow up and take responsibility for your own emotions.
I'm voting for John McCain, of my own generation. I've seen his thoughtfulness -- and his "maverick" moniker fits. Flexibility and the ability to listen are necessary to guide us through troubled times. Obama is blinded by ambition and has little experience to guide the ship of state without hitting the shoals. His view of reality is distorted. He's another "ME" who is overconfident -- and as independent of good advice as a hog on ice. We have already had an "anything to get ME elected" president in Clinton's eight-year travesty. 9/11 would never have happened had Mr. Bill bothered to take action against deliberate terrorism in many separate incidents in his reign.
So that particular Gen-X has earned no points with me. A few more years of maturing and observing an objective reality, rather than wearing rose-tinted glasses, might make him into presidential caliber at some point in the future (like eight years?), but we have seen, to our dismay, that the presidency is not an on-the-job training position.
Sorry to ring in so late on this thread. I was just researching the generations and stumbled onto this angry tirade by accident.
The amount of anger in these posts leave me astounded. I'm a member of the Silent Generation, the mother of two Generation X children, and the grandmother of six Millennials. I was delighted to find that they had rejected the name Gen-Y and found a more meaningful name.
My children should have chosen a zingier name for their generation. Perception beats reality to a pulp, and if you had even called yourselves Generation 13, as some historians do, it would have sounded less negative. It's not too late. I taught my children to never give up. I think about my Gen-X children and I want to call them Generation Liberty. They are intelligent, independent, but have definite ambitions and goals.
Just wanted to tell you that the Boomers may have gotten in your way, and stood between you and the sun, but their sheer numbers caused that. Every generation wants its season in the sun.
Just rename yourselves. And publicize it worldwide. Generation Liberty fits you better than anything else you've ever been called.
Don't be upset at the Millennials. They've inherited what the Silents, the Boomers and the Gen-Xers (Liberty Gens) created. Life is short and we can't have it all. We created it for them, and for all of the generations that will follow us. There are far more important reasons for anger. Defending the helpless, rather than thinking about yourself and how you are perceived, is one of them.
I was born in 1939. I turned my children on to the Beatles, Mad Magazine, Star Wars, E.T., reading good science fiction & fantasy, and Walt Kelly. My children turned me on to Dr. Demento, Dr. Who, Alternative Rock, and seafood. My son has a '72 Dodge Charger and collects vintage cars. My daughter and I cry watching "Steel Magnolias" and are passing on Jane Austen to her Millennial daughters. One Millennial grandson is becoming a programmer (his Gen-X father is a programmer, too), and another grandson has turned me on to the art of Anime and Japanese cartoons.
All three of the living generations in my family love forties musicals. So? Open up, enjoy, and quit doing what you accuse the Millennials of doing: whining. It's time for you to grow up and take responsibility for your own emotions.
I'm voting for John McCain, of my own generation. I've seen his thoughtfulness -- and his "maverick" moniker fits. Flexibility and the ability to listen are necessary to guide us through troubled times. Obama is blinded by ambition and has little experience to guide the ship of state without hitting the shoals. His view of reality is distorted. He's another "ME" who is overconfident -- and as independent of good advice as a hog on ice. We have already had an "anything to get ME elected" president in Clinton's eight-year travesty. 9/11 would never have happened had Mr. Bill bothered to take action against deliberate terrorism in many separate incidents in his reign.
So that particular Gen-X has earned no points with me. A few more years of maturing and observing an objective reality, rather than wearing rose-tinted glasses, might make him into presidential caliber at some point in the future (like eight years?), but we have seen, to our dismay, that the presidency is not an on-the-job training position.
Sorry to ring in so late on this thread. I was just researching the generations and stumbled onto this angry tirade by accident.