CyborgSage00x0 posted...
At least Millennials get excused had their futures ruined by Gen X/boomers, and then had their whole worlds become a series of calamities after 9/11 (primarily if American).
Millennials constantly looking to blame all of their failings on other people is one of the things that make Millennials the worst generation.
It's kind of a meme at this point that the "participation trophy generation" has absolutely no sense of personal responsibility or accountability. This sort of thing just kind of provides evidence that it's true (regardless of whether or not it actually is).
Though even if we
accept
the premise that Millennials had it more terrible than anyone else (ignoring all of their advantages, or the fact that other generations before them had their own tragedies and traumas), nearly every excuse Millennials use to absolve themselves of personal responsibility would also apply to the younger generations as well. If Millennials had to suffer through all of the fallout from the poor decisions of Gen X/Boomers, then Gen Z had to deal with all of the same fallout, AND all of the things Millennials ruined as well. And so on.
You can only blame so much on the Boomers (or on everyone older than you because Millennials don't really seem to know what "Boomers" actually are). Eventually you kind of have to accept that, at a certain point, you also fucked up. Or conversely, if you get to blame everything on your parents and society so nothing is ever your fault, that they also got fucked up by their parents and society, so it's not their fault either. You can't really have it both ways, no matter how much you want to. (And also, you might want to prepare for the fact that eventually Zoomers and Alpha are going to start telling you how terrible YOU are, and how when you finally had the chance to fix things you fucked everything up too.)
And I'm still 100% firm in my assertion that Millennials are basically just Boomers who don't realize they're Boomers. You all went through your "1960s Old People Suck and We're Going to Save the World" phase, and your "Early 70s' Let's Do Drugs and Drop Out" phase, and now you're going through your "Late 70s Disillusionment" phase. You're following in the Boomers' footsteps so closely you might as well be clones. Every time you rant about them and gag over how terrible they are, you're just looking in a mirror.