What is really wrong with millennials?

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  1. Polydectes

    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    I always have a map yes I carry a map in my car and yes I have used it because phones have batteries and batteries go dead. And if I'm going out on a hike I carry a map.

    Maybe I'm just old-fashioned.
     
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    I agree with you about maps for outdoors. I've given up on car maps. If I have a running car, my phone can be charged. Now, I have run into difficulties in the mountains, where I can't always get signals, but then those roads aren't usually on the road maps anyway.
     
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    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    I've been outside of Wi-Fi and couldn't get ahold of a map.
     
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    millennials were raised by baby boomers whom were raised by those that lived through the great depression & world wars... each tried their best to give their children the things they didn't have... add in that the babyboomers lived in prosperous times as adults and spoiled their kids rotten, when they grew up (millennials) expected everything to be handed to them and they passed that attitude forward to their kids... a fine mess we've made, eh!
     
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    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    There is another facet to this. It isn't just that the parents gave them everything they didn't one thing negative that the boomers gave Gen x and Gen y was broken homes. Or divorce. This is why I think they're not getting married or having kids in as many numbers it's the baby boomers did.

    But another aspect to this is ,what I call, the snow plow effect. All obstacles have just been pushed out of the way. I'm learning about all this stuff in my adulthood. And it's not because my parents gave me everything I asked for. It's because the school I went to didn't let me fail.
     
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    BS. My parents and grand parents never had "safe spaces" in their towns or universities. This generation is screwed.
     
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    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    I think the major difference between the younger generation and the older one regardless of generation is the older one had to grow up faster.
     
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    I always do feel that my generation (40
    -55 yrs old) had the advantage of learning that our Circle was small because before the internet and social media we couldn't reach more than a few dozen people at any given time usually it's more like THREE people.

    We grew up without any pressure related to trying to impress a group and for the most part our goals in life were similar to those of peers and parents. You grew up got a job got married had kids respected your parents, saved, retired, traveled died. easy peasy

    The only people that ever heard your opinion were those that were standing in front of you, and it's a reminder I carry forward to this day, I really don't bother with social media or Twitter because I really don't care what other random people think and they don't care about my thoughts either. I do enjoy the forms because once you get away from the angry BS you can actually learn quite a bit and there can be a back and forth.

    I think the younger generation far too often wants to at least have a moment of greatness or massive attention because they see it all the time on viral videos or the media. For some reason there's a fear of going through life with nobody really noticing you and that's something that I kind of look forward to, peace and quiet. it also means I stayed sober and kept my ass out of jail :)
     
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    Amen to that. zero distractions is wonderful quiet serious one-on-one conversations can be amazing .

    It's fascinating watch some people that just plain and simply can't put that phone down for more than 5 minutes.

    I can only imagine how many people spend more time & effort arguing with strangers on the Yahoo comments section of a random article than they do with their spouse.
     
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    to clarify, time with spouse, not time spent arguing with spouse. lol.
     
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    Illogical. The world is not overcrowded, and you can still go be in the middle of nowhere if you want.
     
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    Your opinion.
     
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    Fact.
     
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    Your fact. I believe we are overpopulated.
     
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    Facts are not subjective. We have more than enough resources on this planet to support quite a much greater global population than we currently have. In any case, in 50 years of so the global population will begin to contract.
     
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    I believe your facts are wrong, and I don't think we will need to wait 50 years before the population shrinks.
     
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    That is the estimate of professional demographers.
     
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    They lack common sense realism. Like the majority of leftists do.
     
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    Isn't that the fault of the people that raised them?
     
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    No.....as the bottomline is Self Evident Truth.


    Drawing from cultural titans such as Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Isiah Berlin, and Albert Einstein, Curry explores the philosophy of common-sense realism that suffuses our founding documents. As Curry argues, common sense is not “the collective opinions of the crowd.” Rather, it is “the shared understanding of the way things really are.” Common sense is “the basis of all human knowledge,” without which human language would be impossible.



    Quite simply, common sense means “to be in contact with human reality.” It “makes us rational beings and moral agents” and “enables us to meet the challenges of daily existence as human beings—and also to meet extraordinary challenges.”


    Standing in the way of recovering common sense are our political and intellectual elites. Influenced by a toxic brew of romanticism, Hegelianism, progressivism, and postmodernism, the elites’ war against reality, Curry contends, is a direct threat to the perpetuation of republican government. A stultifying political correctness that permeates our universities, media, and government, and the doxxing of public and private figures alike who harbor even the mildest opposition to the elite consensus is clear evidence of the effects of this all-encompassing war.....snip~


    https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/01...e-common-good/
     
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    if you didn't teach them to care about that it is your fault.


    snow plow parenting, meaning we're parents fight all their battles for them, takes them out of reality.

    so the people are still enabling them.
    Yeah I still think that's due to how they were raised.
     
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    The Progressives have been doing all they can to destroy the concept of Common Sense realism. Their argument is that there are no moral basic truths. Curry and Prager talk about when the change flipped at the beginning of the 19th Century.


    Reclaiming Common Sense: Finding Truth on a Post-Truth World: Dennis Prager and Robert Curry

    http://townhallreview.com/2019/11/re...-robert-curry/
     
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    Older generations have let them. The far left enters education nobody does a damn thing.
    Yeah I listen to Dennis Prager, but I think he's too late. The time to have done something was when millennials were children

    This should be focused on gen z and below. I think it's too late for millennials.

    You have to compete with voices like Greta tunburg.
     
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    I would have to disagree. Self Evident is when the realization comes from within their own self. You know the elevator makes it to the top floor. The Light comes on. The filter is working. etc etc.

    She isn't that hard to compete with. Due to her indoctrination from her parents. All it takes is showing Greta the rest of the Planet.

    Although I do agree that those after the millennials should be a priority in learning about common Sense realism. Being educated more than some public school or by Leftist professors in Universities.
     
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    very few things in this world are self-evident. We like to claim they are, but I think that's just to make us feel better about our own ideas.
    I don't think you really know much about humanity. The idea that were guilty of something and that we need to do something to assuage our guilt has it been part of humanity since the beginning of time. That desire of humans to do that is why we have religion.
    But the older generations are making the same mistakes. If anything's things are getting worse.

    Seems all people want to do is talk about it. Why should anybody listen to them?
     

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