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Originally Posted by Lhord99
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Re: the "strong men create..." post.
As someone who works with Boomers and Gen X-ers and Milennials as colleagues, and iGen and Gen Z as 'clients', I can tell you that with all the focus on all this anti-Boomer brew-ha-ha, anti-Milennial this-n-that, we're really missing what's happening with the youth... which is alarming. Not that these discussions aren't important, but we don't have them in a vacuum.
[FWIW these statistics are coming from the 2nd largest school district in my state]. Suicide rate (ideation with unsuccessful action, thankfully) at my affluent, 30% white school in Microsoft country was over 10% in the 7th grade ALONE. Reported alcohol and nicotine use ages 11-15 is over double what it was at my school, same school district, when I was a student. College attendance is nearly 100%, though, so everything's FIIIINE, right?! All this nonsense bickering and blaming is having disastrous implications on anyone who will, one day, be a 'twentysomething' and a 'boomer-ager'. Boomer, Gen-X, Milennial - doesn't matter. These kids are not being raised right. It's everyone's fault. And, it doesn't bode well for 2040.
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Bickering doesn't cause people to do those things. Within my family we have far more bickering, and it just made us stronger. Which I think was the point; if you are used to Uncle Bob ripping on you, then some random jerkoff isn't going to affect you much.
I think the problem goes a lot deeper. Probably involving a lack of a group identity, that there is nothing greater than ourselves to attach ourselves to except ephemeral nonsense like brand name loyalty and video games.