My Comments
Right on Robert!!!!
Finally -someone speaking some TRUTH!! Gen X IS rising up but we are much more clandestine in our practices. It's true, the media congratulates this Y generation where they criticized X -but it's because they don't know what else to do. It's the 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em' ideal.
Here's my personal example: I picked up the premiere issue of NYLON mag years ago and because I worked in Soho, NYC I got to know the EIC of that then-new mag. It was great then but it now revolves around talent-less assholes like Corey Kennedy. Fast forward a few years when, ironically, the very first day I started my own website, I get accused by a Gen Y girl who JUST got hired by NYLON of stealing a story from their website. I haven't read anything online or off by NYLON in years. Coincidentally, I happened to know the entire history of the girl who wrote me and that she had no real qualifying background to justify being hired at NYLON, she was just another who created a "virtual illusion of experience" online (so typical of Gen Yers). She knew nothing of the history of the publication for whom she worked and detrimentally didn't realize I knew her boss.
So, here's the thing Gen Y -don't assume you know it all in your comfy, unjustified positions in the world. Gen X was there when all this shit that makes you 'famous' began and we are keeping CIA-like tabs on you. Gen Y is being congratulated by the media because they are being completely exploited -and they love it. Don't hate Gen X, embrace it all and stay on top of these Yers and their social communities -there's little to worry about since they have an expiration date of 15mins. And remember that no generation can afford to be stuck in their ways. The bottom line is that we just plain know more than they do and if we continue to observe, study, and practice this we will always remain ahead.
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Right on Robert!!!!
Finally -someone speaking some TRUTH!! Gen X IS rising up but we are much more clandestine in our practices. It's true, the media congratulates this Y generation where they criticized X -but it's because they don't know what else to do. It's the 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em' ideal.
Here's my personal example: I picked up the premiere issue of NYLON mag years ago and because I worked in Soho, NYC I got to know the EIC of that then-new mag. It was great then but it now revolves around talent-less assholes like Corey Kennedy. Fast forward a few years when, ironically, the very first day I started my own website, I get accused by a Gen Y girl who JUST got hired by NYLON of stealing a story from their website. I haven't read anything online or off by NYLON in years. Coincidentally, I happened to know the entire history of the girl who wrote me and that she had no real qualifying background to justify being hired at NYLON, she was just another who created a "virtual illusion of experience" online (so typical of Gen Yers). She knew nothing of the history of the publication for whom she worked and detrimentally didn't realize I knew her boss.
So, here's the thing Gen Y -don't assume you know it all in your comfy, unjustified positions in the world. Gen X was there when all this shit that makes you 'famous' began and we are keeping CIA-like tabs on you. Gen Y is being congratulated by the media because they are being completely exploited -and they love it. Don't hate Gen X, embrace it all and stay on top of these Yers and their social communities -there's little to worry about since they have an expiration date of 15mins. And remember that no generation can afford to be stuck in their ways. The bottom line is that we just plain know more than they do and if we continue to observe, study, and practice this we will always remain ahead.