The wussification of American culture

[Lucas156]

Wow lots of millennial bashing. What about the generation that screwed up the millennials? I guess they're not responsible.

 

[JTScribe]

I had about the same action figures you did, I also had the little green army men. Occasionally they died violently in combat, courtesy of a firecracker, other times they were buried alive in tunnel collapses or hit by a truck. Hell, we may have even strapped one or two to a bottle rocket. Rambo had to save a neighbor girl's princess on a couple occasions, but the princess went home with the neighbor girl.

It's funny, I have a boy and a girl and I feel pretty good about each of them. My daughter will play with dolls, but she'll also play with my son's Marvel action figures. My son will play tea time with his sister, but he also likes to build LEGO tanks and have minifigure wars. And they both think shooting is fun. Hopefully I can keep their brains from turning to mush down the road.

Wow lots of millennial bashing. What about the generation that screwed up the millennials? I guess they're not responsible.

The generations always mix me up as far as what starts when and ends when, but here's my take.

The Greatest Generation were tough as nails. Fought WW2 and came back home and enjoyed the recovery. Their lives had sucked, so they wanted their kids to have it as good as possible. So we get the Baby Boomers, who mostly, but not all, are pretty spoiled because of their parents.

What's weird is, in my generation I see it as about 50/50. Maybe half of us are fruit loopy helicopter parents shuttling kids to soccer and feeding them organic arugula and kale because ermagerd, like, GMOs. The other half - in which I'd include my wife and myself - are hewing more closely to traditional values. In my case, I think it's a reflex reaction to what I've seen out of my parents. My dad was kind of a hippy counterculture type, played around with drugs for a long time, was into the whole free love thing, got married and divorced multiple times, etc. My wife's parents are more traditional, but then again, they're older. Call it first wave Baby Boomers, maybe. My father-in-law was old enough, for example, to serve at Hamburger Hill in Vietnam (some just absolutely amazing, heartbreaking stories there), whereas my dad wasn't old enough until Vietnam was long over.

But honestly since my parents were such flakes I like to think I was mostly raised by my grandparents. And my grandpa showed me lots of cool stuff . . . fishing, shooting, digging for cans to take to recycling. (I turned in a lot of cans for GI Joes - pretty sweet gig for a kid.) But he also told me a lot of stories, and I think that's what helped me a lot, too, because I heard about what it was like living during the Great Depression, and what it was like fighting in the Pacific.

I don't think millennials are entirely to blame. I think there are a LOT of Baby Boomers that have gravitated to positions of authority where they can transmit their nonsense. Honestly that's the most effective way leftism spreads these days - they're certainly not having enough children to replace their numbers; they have to indoctrinate to maintain their case.

 

[churchmouse]

Wow lots of millennial bashing. What about the generation that screwed up the millennials? I guess they're not responsible.

Just a comment on the current state of affairs on my part. Yes we can track this all the way back to grandparents and why this is happening. There is a point where folks have to step up to the plate. Society, social media, public schools, people in general all have a place in the blame.

Are you a millennial....??
Just curious.

 

[actaeon277]

My niece is "shielded" from germs as best as her parents can do...she is sick all the time. My kids were around nd other kids daily starting at 2. The played outside, wear what they want in winter and the never get sick. Funny how that works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X29lF43mUlo
(language)

 

[foszoe]

Wow lots of millennial bashing. What about the generation that screwed up the millennials? I guess they're not responsible.

Absolutely right! This did this to themselves. Once they figured out how to sue their parents and be victimized by any punishments meted out by adults and that any criticism of their value system was unfair it all went downhill.


Oh which generation is it we are talking about??

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Wow lots of millennial bashing. What about the generation that screwed up the millennials? I guess they're not responsible.

If they see the problem and know what caused it, what are they doing to remedy it? Because, to me, it appears they're running, head-long down the rabbit hole the boomers and gen-x'ers have created.

 

[1775usmarine]

As a millennial my wife and I have left the majority of our generation in the dust. She was forced out of the house at 18 and has learned to live on her own without assistance while graduating with two degrees. Though now she doesn't have to lift a finger or work if she so chooses, which she does now that she decided to start a small business selling the primitives and herbal products she makes and loves. She is a wonderful woman with financial sense, awesome cooking skills, basically a traditional suzy homemaker do it all. There is nothing wrong with it as it was her choice especially with us trying for several years now to have children.

Me i had a brain tumor at 7 which left a horseshoe shaped scar. It was the butt of many jokes for many years, but I never let it get to me. When a kid at school who was bigger than me decided to start messing with me I shoved him against a locker and basically lifted him off his feet. He stayed far away from me even to this day.

I spent Saturdays at my grandparents in Gary as my parents divorced when I was 7 so I learned the value of family and other knowledge of the greatest generation. When I was 16 I seen my grandmother who had passed away on Christmas exactly in the state of her passing without needing a crisis counselor. I joined the Marines after High School where I learned many things they didn't teach in college after the service like Leadership, teamwork, and dedication among others. As a 21 yr old I was running convoys of 7-10 vehicles with as many as 30 Marines( some of which were higher ranking Officers) who looked to me if something were to happen in Ramadi while my peers back home got drunk, blew off college, and were starting to have children out of wedlock.

I went to college for Diesel Technology where I realized my life experiences allowed me to make deans list really easy compared to high school where I went through the motions. I also seen those who had just come from High School that had no clue that after this they were in the real world and had to survive. I shook my head many times during my 2yrs in college. A few weeks before graduating I applied to Norfolk Southern where I was hired 3 weeks after graduation.

We are able to say compared to the majority of our generation we are living the upper middle class life. That we can support each other through any mess thrown our way as experienced after buying our home with my VA loan. That even though we were hit in the pocket book we bounced back and didn't lay there awaiting our fate. We got up and charged ahead. I believe those with a similar upbringing as ours can say the same thing. I feel sorry for those who lay there waiting for someone to come and help them because when that help does arrive they become much more dependent on that help when faced with a minor set back any rational human can deal with.

 

[HoughMade]

My kids are millennials. I'm proud of them. Of course, they weren't raised by self-entitled, lazy, whiny, permissive Gen-Xers.

I have no criticism for an entire generation. I have plenty for the members of that generation, and their parents, who demonstrate this weird ethic that "kids need to make all their own decisions."

 

[churchmouse]

OK......some millennials..........

 

[spencer rifle]

Our two oldest are Millenials. One travels the world on his own dime (26 countries in 25 years), has friends in many countries, and is a pleasure to have home (except the mess he leaves behind). His sister has the heart of a pastor, and is currently on mission (secretly) in Beijing teaching English, though she is a certified Spanish translator. They make their own way, and make our lives better in so may ways. We still do adventure things together when we happen to be on the same continent. And they have thanked us (as they got more mature) for making them do it on their own when they were younger, as so many of their friends have no life or coping skills.

 

[Kutnupe14]

If they see the problem and know what caused it, what are they doing to remedy it? Because, to me, it appears they're running, head-long down the rabbit hole the boomers and gen-x'ers have created.

Who there bro. This mostly falls on the Boomers. Gen Xer's are just now starting to have adult children. Millenials are from the early 80's to early 2000's.
If you recall, the Boomers were the slacker, protesting, dope smoking generation. Now they actually reaping what they sowed. lol

 

[Kutnupe14]

Our two oldest are Millenials. One travels the world on his own dime (26 countries in 25 years), has friends in many countries, and is a pleasure to have home (except the mess he leaves behind). His sister has the xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, though she is a certified Spanish translator. They make their own way, and make our lives better in so may ways. We still do adventure things together when we happen to be on the same continent. And they have thanked us (as they got more mature) for making them do it on their own when they were younger, as so many of their friends have no life or coping skills.

Personally, I'd probably not say that on an open forum.

 

[indiucky]

If you recall, the Boomers were the slacker, protesting, dope smoking generation. Now they actually reaping what they sowed. lol

I was born in 1964 which, I believe, is the last of the baby boomers.....But what you say can not be true because I read here on INGO that drugs are not legal because of uptight old people...AKA "Boomers".....

 

[Kutnupe14]

I was born in 1964 which, I believe, is the last of the baby boomers.....But what you say can not be true because I read here on INGO that drugs are not legal because of uptight old people...AKA "Boomers".....

Welllllll.... early on, Boomers used to be bleeding heart liberals too. And then they became money grubbing Yuppies and Reaganites. I think their kids just got ahold of the photo album, and were like "whoa, mom, dad, you guys used to smoke weed too?" lol

 

[indiucky]

Welllllll.... early on, Boomers used to be bleeding heart liberals too. And then they became money grubbing Yuppies and Reaganites. I think their kids just got ahold of the photo album, and were like "whoa, mom, dad, you guys used to smoke weed too?" lol

But please remember.....Before they became money grubbing yuppies and Reaganites in the 80's they were doing lines of coke at Studio 54 and dancing on lighted floors back in the 1970's.....Boomers always try to forget the Disco era....(or maybe they just don't remember)

 

[Kutnupe14]

But please remember.....Before they became money grubbing yuppies and Reaganites in the 80's they were doing lines of coke at Studio 54 and dancing on lighted floors back in the 1970's.....Boomers always try to forget the Disco era....(or maybe they just don't remember)

Which one is you? The guy in the Mork outfit? lol

 

[indiucky]

Which one is you? The guy in the Mork outfit? lol

LOL....Nah...I was about 15 when Disco was big and I still can't grow a 1970's porn star mustache....

What's funny is while looking up these pics to post this is the music that kept popping up into my head...

[video=youtube;8MRfvI8Mwv4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MRfvI8Mwv4[/video]

 

[JTScribe]

Who there bro. This mostly falls on the Boomers. Gen Xer's are just now starting to have adult children. Millenials are from the early 80's to early 2000's.
If you recall, the Boomers were the slacker, protesting, dope smoking generation. Now they actually reaping what they sowed. lol

Yup, I cited my own personal experiences with that earlier.

 

[Bapak2ja]

My niece is "shielded" from germs as best as her parents can do...she is sick all the time. My kids were around nd other kids daily starting at 2. The played outside, wear what they want in winter and the never get sick. Funny how that works.

Found the same thing while living in Borneo. The kids whose mom was constantly freaking out about washing hands, clean dishes, flies, staying out of the river, never going barefoot with all the pig dirt about, etc. were the kids who were always sick with diarrhea. The kids who just took basic precautions and got on with life, running naked through he jungle with the village kids, were healthy and strong. They even learned the language better!

 

[451_Detonics]