Poll of the Day > Who do Boomers think Millennials and Gen Z are the same thing?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Gen Z doesn't even like Millenials.

Cause they can only know like 14 things at a time

Boomers think Millennials are like 20 to 25 years old, so yes.

Because they just think and do what they're told. If the magic picture box tells them young people are evil, they're going to believe it.

To be fair half the people that I see Millenials refer to as Boomers are Gen X

rjsilverthorn posted...

To be fair half the people that I see Millenials refer to as Boomers are Gen X

This.

Also to be fair, as Gen X I'd say you both kind of suck.

rjsilverthorn posted...

To be fair half the people that I see Millenials refer to as Boomers are Gen X

This.

11110111011 posted...

This.

What about Gen Z? Are we/they better at getting it right?

ParanoidObsessive posted...

This.

Also to be fair, as Gen X I'd say you both kind of suck.

As a fellow Gen X, a lot of us suck too.

Only 90s kids remember

rjsilverthorn posted...

As a fellow Gen X, a lot of us suck too.

Hence my usual mantra:

"People suck."

It explains so much about how the world works.

Why do I think Boomers and Gen X are the same?

Judgmenl posted...

Why do I think Boomers and Gen X are the same?

Does Gen Z?

Why do Millennials think Boomers and Silent Gen are the same?

Why do millennials love sugar toast

Justin2Krelian posted...

Why do Millennials think Boomers and Silent Gen are the same?

Wut

VampireCoyote posted...

Why do millennials love sugar toast

Why do kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

BigOlePappy posted...

Does Gen Z?

Why does Gen Z matter with respect to my question?

rjsilverthorn posted...

To be fair half the people that I see Millenials refer to as Boomers are Gen X

They're just poor boomers

Presumably for the same reason that gen z thinks that everyone who isn't their generation is a boomer.

BigOlePappy posted...

What about Gen Z? Are we/they better at getting it right?

Nah. Humanity just sucks.

Lil_Bit83 posted...

Presumably for the same reason that gen z thinks that everyone who isn't their generation is a boomer.

Brain damage?

https://youtu.be/LD0x7ho_IYc

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Brain damage?

Which would surprise nobody.

Part of it is denial that the 1981 to 1992 was 30+ years ago, as opposed to last decade or so.

Judgmenl posted...

Why does Gen Z matter with respect to my question?

I am just asking. Does Z? What do you think?

BigOlePappy posted...

Wut

Somebody called William Shatner a boomer on Twitter and he corrected them.

why do people think boomers are 50?

Entity13 posted...

Part of it is denial that the 1981 to 1992 was 30+ years ago, as opposed to last decade or so.

I wouldnt go as far as to call it denial. Its just how human minds sense time... aka not super well.

Like i got my diagnosis may of 2002... i struggle to believe that was 20 years ago.

Simultaneously ive been living on my own since march 2012.. also doesnt feel nearly that long.

And that sense lf time just gets worse the older you get...

Because theyre just straight up idiots.

SuperVegitoFAN posted...

I wouldnt go as far as to call it denial. Its just how human minds sense time... aka not super well.

Like i got my diagnosis may of 2002... i struggle to believe that was 20 years ago.

Simultaneously ive been living on my own since march 2012.. also doesnt feel nearly that long.

And that sense lf time just gets worse the older you get...

Sure, human memory is fallible, and so many people don't do numbers too well, but I'm still going to stick with some degree of denial on their part. Who wants to be reminded that the years are marching on, and all you've done is squandered your time feeding into a bad system? Who wants to admit that future generations are already old enough to replace the ones in power? I know, from a number of memes, that Gen X likes to think they did nothing wrong in all this mess - because denial.

Millenials were born around the turn of the millennium, so because they are? (Or better put, all Millennials are Gen Z, but not all Gen Z are Millennials.)

Edit: also both Millennial and Boomer are insults for people with a certain mindset within their actual generations.

Entity13 posted...

I know, from a number of memes, that Gen X likes to think they did nothing wrong in all this mess - because denial.

To be fair, it's hard to do anything wrong when you're apathetically sitting on the sidelines refusing to get involved.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

To be fair, it's hard to do anything wrong when you're apathetically sitting on the sidelines refusing to get involved.

When it's your turn to raise the next generation, and are deliberately sidelining yourself, then you're doing something wrong. I say this not to you personally, PO, but to the hypothetical-you, as in the members of Gen X who made the choice to have kids and then took the hands-off approach and then screamed bloody murder against the music, the television, the video games, and so on that their kids didn't turn out OK.

Entity13 posted...

When it's your turn to raise the next generation, and are deliberately sidelining yourself, then you're doing something wrong. I say this not to you personally, PO, but to the hypothetical-you, as in the members of Gen X who made the choice to have kids and then took the hands-off approach and then screamed bloody murder against the music, the television, the video games, and so on that their kids didn't turn out OK.

Well, that's exactly how we were raised, and we turned out OK.

Personally I don't understand the need for these labels, other than to be snarky and overly self important. There are geniuses and idiots of all ages. I know from my experience my generation was no better or worse than those before or after mine. I am however bitterly disappointed in my generation for failing to keep the promises we made to make the world a better place than we found it. I spent my adult life fighting for the same causes we still have made little progress in, like racial and gender equality, protecting our environment to name a couple.

At this point I wish that some disease or contamination would come along and wipe out all of humanity and nothing else and let mother earth reset herself with hopefully something better taking over this time. Humanity no longer deserves to survive, WE FAILED AT LIFE.

Millennial is a funky ass word.

Entity13 posted...

When it's your turn to raise the next generation, and are deliberately sidelining yourself, then you're doing something wrong. I say this not to you personally, PO, but to the hypothetical-you, as in the members of Gen X who made the choice to have kids and then took the hands-off approach

Well, to be fair, I was talking more about the effect on the world as a whole than simply just how Gen X raised their kids.

The Boomers grew up complaining about how all the "old men" ruined the world, but they were the ones who were going to fix everything. Give peace a chance, man! Save Mother Earth! Open your mind! And then they fucked everything up and became bitter old fucks. Millennials have grown up constantly complaining about how all the Boomers ruined the world, but they are the ones who are going to fix everything. Capitalism bad! Save the planet! Social justice! And they're almost certainly going to fuck everything up and become the exact same bitter old fucks they spend all of their time blaming everything on.

30-40 years from now, when an old Millennial looks into a mirror, they're going to see a Boomer staring back.

Meanwhile Gen X just sat on the couch and watched TV and played video games. Can't blame us for shit!





(Also, my first post was at least somewhat facetious, because not doing anything is itself kind of a bad thing. Seeing all the problems in the world and reacting by deliberately not caring and not trying to fix anything isn't necessarily a more moral stance, just an easier, lazier one. But if nothing else, it does come with a bit more self-awareness than most people on either side of us seem to have.

Boomers see themselves in the younger generation, and are reminded of all the ways they compromised their ideals and failed in their dreams. The younger generation looks at the older generation and rants at all their flaws without seeing any of their own. Neither side is right, both are wrong. But neither will ever admit it.)



Entity13 posted...

and then screamed bloody murder against the music, the television, the video games, and so on

I mean, to be fair, every generation does that.

That's pretty much an inevitable consequence of rapid pace of advancement. When large swaths of culture and technology change within the span of a single human lifetime, humans have a hard time adapting to changes.

I always used to point out that my grandmother went from being born at a time when the only way to go from place to place was by horse, and before she died humans were on the fucking moon. Most humans for the first 500,000+ years worth of our history never had to deal with stuff like that. Sure, there'd be the occasional invasion, conquest, or falling empire to really shake things up, but every day was more or less much like the last one for thousands of years. Culture still evolved, but the pace was glacial compared to what it is today (and has been for the last 150-200 years or so).

In the old days old people used to be valued because their experience was useful, and they had tons to teach the younger generation. Now, everything changes so quickly and people live even longer, so the oldest among us are almost completely obsolete by the end. Far from being able to teach anything, the young adapt to constant changes far more effectively.

In a way, everyone is adapted to live in the world the way it was when they were 20-30 somethings. The problem is the world keeps changing, so the longer ago that time was, the harder it gets for us all to relate to the world around us. The alienation starts in superficial ways at first (music, pop culture), but slowly creeps to encompass all aspects of culture and technology.

Everyone gets old eventually. Even the young.

Veedrock- posted...

Millennial is a funky ass word.

We should call them Willennials instead.









Wait. Is that even a joke filthy younglings will even understand? Oh by god the curse of being old and out of touch strikes again!

Because those generations are pretty poorly and arbitrarily defined and the people using the terms are mostly just looking to say "I dislike something about you and I'm going to just blame your age instead of considering or explaining the issue in any greater detail than that" and therefore don't really care about the exact ages in question.

Yeah, basically what I wanted to get at was that the generational divide is a load of crap designed to divide people to be sold to a set of ideas, to a hill to die on. So you want to make the world a better place or be one with the place you got? Great. Except not really great, because there are lies and illusions involved, and everything right about it is your pride while everything wrong is those other groups. Let's blame them for wanting more rather than focusing on the not-so-good folks up top who built these divisions.

Basically Boomers and Millennials exchange as many pleasantries as we're conditioned to do. X and Z are bred their way as well, to think they are no way a part of things, but hey, here are some preset choices to make that are terrible. I hope you're content with these bad choices.

Because that is the design of it all. It's a load of crap. People are the worst kind of foolish who feed into it.

PO, you and I are close enough in age we might be considered of the same generation if not for where the lousy generation divide had been drawn. Our interests are sometimes aligned, and our perspectives often differed because of where we come from, what we had access to in terms of knowledge. Do we let X and Millennial define us? I'd hope not.

peanutt121 posted...

Personally I don't understand the need for these labels, other than to be snarky and overly self important. There are geniuses and idiots of all ages. I know from my experience my generation was no better or worse than those before or after mine. I am however bitterly disappointed in my generation for failing to keep the promises we made to make the world a better place than we found it. I spent my adult life fighting for the same causes we still have made little progress in, like racial and gender equality, protecting our environment to name a couple.

At this point I wish that some disease or contamination would come along and wipe out all of humanity and nothing else and let mother earth reset herself with hopefully something better taking over this time. Humanity no longer deserves to survive, WE FAILED AT LIFE.

An individual making a promise doesn't mean the entire group did.

Entity13 posted...

PO, you and I are close enough in age we might be considered of the same generation if not for where the lousy generation divide had been drawn. Our interests are sometimes aligned, and our perspectives often differed because of where we come from, what we had access to in terms of knowledge. Do we let X and Millennial define us? I'd hope not.

I generally define myself as Gen X in the same way I define myself as Aquarius. It's a defining term that is technically true, but doesn't necessarily accurately represent me.

On the other hand, the Chinese Zodiac is totally legit. Because I am a FIRE DRAGON, and you ain't gonna take that away from me!

But yeah, I've never really overly identified with Gen X in any meaningful way because I'm a misanthrope who mostly hates everyone in my generation as well. And I was raised by parents who were chronologically part of the Hippie Generation but they fucking loathed hippies.

So it's hard to identify with your generational cohorts when you don't really like or respect them.

BigOlePappy posted...

Does Gen Z?

Gen z here, nope. X is leagues better in general

adjl posted...

Because those generations are pretty poorly and arbitrarily defined and the people using the terms are mostly just looking to say "I dislike something about you and I'm going to just blame your age instead of considering or explaining the issue in any greater detail than that" and therefore don't really care about the exact ages in question.

That's an interesting take. I've never really heard of that, I'm glad to hear it.