What do you think are the major pros/cons of each current generation?

[JasonBlack]

(06-01-2022, 11:49 AM)David Horn Wrote: The limit to empathy is self-pity, and that seems to be what you're implying here.  I'm of the firm belief that all the trigger warnings served no one well.  They merely imposed an ethos of softness, and it's starting to show.  Life has sharp edges.  Trying to grind them all flat merely disguises them; it doesn't eliminate them.

Precisely

(06-01-2022, 02:14 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: It's amazing that you are able to discern such general negative traits and apply them to a whole generation or two.

It's hardly amazing to point out recurring behaviors which you have to tiptoe around for the sake of staying employed. If I'm being overly biting, it's because millennials are a generation addicted to positivity and using infantile tactics to cry out for help. No, it doesn't apply to all millennials (I'd certainly be disappointed were I to find out I were doing this!), but as stated in the OP, this is a thread for pointing out general trends, and imo, you're a little more justified in being harsher on your own generation than others.


while I'm here, the Gen X culture of "figure it out yourself" needs to die. I respect the hell out of people who are able to do this, but I really REALLY hate how normalized it has become. Learning things from experience is a necessary part of life, but part of being a good parent or a good teacher is giving children information in advance....so that they don't have to learn things the hard way like you did. They will get their bumps, bruises and, perhaps, even broken bones from life, but at the same time, it makes no sense not to employ damage control or give heads up when possible. There is no need to make life more difficult than it needs to be.