{"id":72613,"date":"2019-11-14T11:19:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T17:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72613"},"modified":"2022-11-11T11:19:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T17:19:20","slug":"ok-millie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72613","title":{"rendered":"OK, Millie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A friend of the blog emails:\u00a0 \u00a0<\/div>\n
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“I’ve often found great enjoyment watching millennials fight with baby boomers in St Paul over “save the earth” issues. They seem to think they are vastly different from each other. I have yet to notice the difference.<\/div>\n\n\n\n
“So, I found the Disney heir’s recent comments<\/a> even more hilarious.<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Disney also slammed baby boomers’ attitudes toward millennials, who are less financially stable<\/a> than previous generations and are dealing with the ever-growing threat of climate change<\/a>.<\/em>
“And the more often you object to Millenials’ understandable resentment toward a generation that has selfishly poisoned their water, blown past every climate warning so they could drive their stupid hummers, and looked away or worse for sexual, racial and economic injustice, the more you prove their point that you just don’t understand anything of value to them,” she wrote. “Look, these kids are facing down a rising tide (literally) of changes that threatens everything you and I taught them to hold dear.”<\/em>
“How about you guys sit the f— down and let the kids drive,” she added.<\/em>
She concluded: “Get over the idea that all things pass, you are old and you need to let history do what history does: move on.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“Nice try, Ms Disney, but I honestly don’t think millennials are more virtuous than the Boomer generation before them who thought we were all going to die. In fact, these millenials are still driving, still moving to the suburbs to raise kids, still choosing a lifestyle they can’t afford- all while telling someone else that they can’t. Why, it’s as if the two generations are the same. No wonder they are fighting. The more helpful approach might be to actually understand we can’t move on from history, we can just hope not to repeat the worst parts of the world’s history- something both liberal boomers and millennials seem hell-bent on doing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m spooling up for a stemwinder on the whole idea of turning generations into identity groups.

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A friend of the blog emails:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 “I’ve often found great enjoyment watching millennials fight with baby boomers in St Paul over “save the earth” issues. They seem to think they are vastly different from each other. I have yet to notice the difference. “So, I found the Disney heir’s recent comments even more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[453,414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ch-ch-changes-generational-politics","category-identity-first"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72620,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72613\/revisions\/72620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}