re: How the US has changed in my 33 years of adulthood...

This whole thread is nothing but out of touch Boomers.

I'm a Millennial. I grew up free range with a good 2 square mile radius that I could wander and explore with zero supervision for the entire day. I was taught to respect the authority of my parents and teachers.

Your childhood was not special.

You are not special.

Quit projecting like a motherfricker.

I’m 55 and I totally agree. Many of our nation’s problems started out because isterrible parenting of our younger people. They got no freedom and their minds were corrupted by the Internet.

Their music isfreaking terrible, too.

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I thought we were called latch key kids because our parents didn't give a shite about us....

In general, GenXers do not remotely possess the "I'm so special and my precious feelings matter" that seems so common in members (not all) of the generations that have followed.

We are more Libertarian and less leftist. We hated Boomers before it was cool, and we're the most ignored demographic since WW2, but don't really care.

America peaked in the 80s for sure.

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fricking spot on. GenX is sandwiched between millennials and boomers. Boomers raised millennials and have strongly tainted GenZ is extremely polarized. I think if there is to be a civil war it’ll be started by them. For every mini screamer there is a Rittenhouse and Sandmann. I have witnessed this at two different high schools that their are two distinctly different groups.

In the 80’s it was cliques. Now it’s pretty much MAGA or AOC worship. Good luck to the kids on the right. Their battle with be long standing.

Amen sir. I had a great childhood though, but I fear for my children. Especially in a country that is losing religion everyday

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Their music if freaking terrible, too.

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This is a very underrated aspect of why modern society sucks. What passes for entertainment nowadays is laughable.

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GenX is sandwiched between millennials and boomers. Boomers raised millennials and have strongly tainted GenZ is extremely polarized.

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If you really wanna amuse yourself google Xennial.

I think one of the reasons young people today can’t find happiness is that life is too easy. Life’s easy and they are bored. They have turned to political activism because it feels a void and cures the boredom. Nobody can be bothered to take on a hobby and pick up a guitar or something like that. That’s hard and nobody wants hard. Social media made it easy to be a political activist. That’s easy, just type some words and get a bunch of likes.

I think the last group of kids that experienced a normal American childhood were born in 87-88. I was born in 85 and remember a childhood without social media, playing outside all day, SEGA and Nintendo were only for rainy days, used to play baseball in a hayfield with all my friends, getting my arse whipped from the neighbor for being a little shite and then getting it again when I got home. My parents didn’t start locking their doors until 2003 and it took a robbery for that to happen.

September 11th changed everything. That’s when the majority of Americans left and right decided to give a little bit of freedom and liberty for some safety and it snowballed from there. Then social media came along in 2005 and morphed into a creature that made us all hate each other.

When I was growing up in the 90s, I remember being so optimistic about everything. Had a fantastic childhood despite being from a lower middle class family. Every year of my life that went by in that decade “I was like damn, this shits just gonna keep getting better” and then it seemed like the optimism was over the day after 9/11 happened.

Millennials are a more polarized generation than what people believe. I was born in 85 and my sister was born in 95. She can’t live with out technology and I can. Is afraid of anything she sees on the news. The first beer I ever had in my life was at Y2K New Year’s Eve party in high school. We were literally laughing and drinking and counting down the minutes to the so called apocalypse.

80s born millennial and 90s born millennial are 2 totally different species imo.

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Anyone born after 1995 was fricked.

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I’m from 85. Sis was born in 95 and you pretty much hit the nail on the head here. She told me one time that she is lucky she graduated in 2014 because in 2013 was around the time highschoolers were figuring out how to weaponize social media. I was like “yeah that’s some bullshite right there back in my day you just had to deal with that drama at the school and didn’t bring it home with you”.

Think about that for a minute a 29 year old guy at the time telling someone from the same generation “back in my day”

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If you were an a-hole at someone else’s house, their mama would slap the crap out of you, regardless of race. And don’t tell your mama or daddy that Miss. Whoever slapped you, because they would slap you for being an a-hole at the Whoever household. But you’d be outside playing again in 15 minutes with a little sniffle and wisdom.

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Damn straight

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I think one of the reasons young people today can’t find happiness is that life is too easy. Life’s easy and they are bored.

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I *sort of* agree in that I think that the old honest hardships (hard labor, discomfort, personal challenges, etc...) have largely been swept away from most people's lives. We all eat pretty well, have AC, have too much entertainment so there is definitely a *softness* that comes with everything being so easy. But I don't think that is 100% of the story.

I think that kids and young adults are living under a microscope like we never had to experience. There is the tremendous influence of an invisible forced compliance that has never existed before. Anyone that thinks differently is so easily put on ignore and minimized. It is like the ultimate Pavlovian Conditioning. It is to the point where kids have no hope if they are any different at all (like conservative). They all must listen to the same music, like the same politics, follow the same social media *influencers*.

Man, frick all of that. I can't believe how for we let this go...