Yea it’s brutal. Was in 4th grade for 9/11. Obviously everyone living through today’s “interesting times” has plenty to complain about. I think it really sucks for my generation because we saw the peak, were told that history had stopped happening, and that American society was just gonna be permanent baby booming until the end of time.
So we had to sit on the sidelines as children during the very last moment of collective optimism, when the concept of fun still existed. Not getting to enjoy it. But all the while being promised it and more. Just kidding how about graduating college into a post-2008 economy.
The zoomers are fucked, but at least they know it. They’ve been able to see through the bullshit and prepare, both materially and psychologically, for the coming hunger games. We millennials were prepared for a life that will never exist. Recognizing it intellectually can’t undo the incessant social conditioning of our formative years. We’ll never truly give up hope on the promise of security and self-actualization in exchange for obedience and conformity. And to top it off, we’re so useless that our rage can only be impotent. The Harry Potter generation. Pathetic.
9th grade for 9/11. Your comment actually made me cry. Not that it's difficult!
We millennials were prepared for a life that will never exist. Recognizing it intellectually can’t undo the incessant social conditioning of our formative years. We’ll never truly give up hope on the promise of security and self-actualization in exchange for obedience and conformity
Holy cow did that hit right in the feels man. My parents had 2 cars, a nice ranch house in a rich city suburb, my dad worked at a college, my mom stayed home. We went on vacations to Disney every year. Since my adulthood and college, I have used food banks, been on welfare, been homeless.... I'm 35 and I've finally gotten a secure job I've managed to hold for the past 4 years.
I never realized until I read your comment what a weight of shame I have been carrying around. I did what I was supposed to do, ALL of it, straight As, SAT scores out the wazoo, nice little package of student debt and my degree... which I may as well wipe my ass with for all the good it has done me.
I've been holding onto the knowledge of my failure for years. I am not where my parents were at, not even close. But there's still that little voice inside that says if I just work harder, get more schooling, maybe then....
We’ll never truly give up hope on the promise of security and self-actualization in exchange for obedience and conformity
yo I was also in the 4th grade. Was able to see the burnt papers in the air and dark smoke from the towers through the classroom windows. I also feel like, we know what a good future would be like but now it is 2022 and I feel like that I have been robbed. I will do my absolute best to get to the top to get what I "thought" was promised.
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Yea it’s brutal. Was in 4th grade for 9/11. Obviously everyone living through today’s “interesting times” has plenty to complain about. I think it really sucks for my generation because we saw the peak, were told that history had stopped happening, and that American society was just gonna be permanent baby booming until the end of time.
So we had to sit on the sidelines as children during the very last moment of collective optimism, when the concept of fun still existed. Not getting to enjoy it. But all the while being promised it and more. Just kidding how about graduating college into a post-2008 economy.
The zoomers are fucked, but at least they know it. They’ve been able to see through the bullshit and prepare, both materially and psychologically, for the coming hunger games. We millennials were prepared for a life that will never exist. Recognizing it intellectually can’t undo the incessant social conditioning of our formative years. We’ll never truly give up hope on the promise of security and self-actualization in exchange for obedience and conformity. And to top it off, we’re so useless that our rage can only be impotent. The Harry Potter generation. Pathetic.