The following was a comment written in response to a blog post by Be Like Aslan titled A Post I will Probably Regret.
Yes, every generation bemoans the coming generation. Not me! I identify with your generation much more than my own. Born in 1962 I am technically a Baby-Boomer. I prefer the label Wedgie. I am a Wedgie between the Baby-boomers and the X-generation. That is another story. What I see happening with your generation is largely reflected in the world at large. In the world at large, there are increasingly two groups, the haves and the have-nots. You obviously belong to the haves or at least potentially.
Your generation believes in judging individuals by their character and leaving race out of the equation. You believe in marriage equality and recognize the sister threats of capitalism gone wild and global warming. These two threats join our brothers and sisters across the world together in opposition to the increasing madness. No wonder so many corporate journalists bemoan the fate of the millennials. If they do not quickly crush you under the corporate steamroller your generation will be calling upon the power brokers for a reasonable plan to deal with the ever increasing income disparity that now plagues the world. Yes the haves must work ever harder to please the corporate cannibals while the have-nots, with few tools at their disposal, continue to feed at the trough of government hand-outs. To hear our conservative brethren tell it the have-nots have really got it going on these days.
When the corporate journalist invoke the laziness of your generation, they are really invoking the ghost of Reagan’s Welfare Queen and, more recently, Newt Gingrich’s “food-stamp president”. At the same time these journalists play upon the notion that every new generation is somehow unworthy. I look at your generation and I say, Thank God! There is still a chance that the human race may yet still survive and overcome the seemingly insurmountable challenges that face us in the coming years.
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