To: Millennials, And Maybe Some Zeepers
From”. Mitch Berg, Obstreperous Peasant, Millie Parent And Generational Agnostic
Re: Stop Digging<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dear Millennials – and many of you in Gen Z,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s not like I don’t understand the anger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I was in high school and college, the “Baby Boom” was barely entering its prime years. The oldest ones were in their mid-thirties. And they were sucking all <\/em>the air out of the room. The world didn’t always talk about demographics, but when they did, they talked about the Baby Boomers, their shenanigans, their ways and customs and music and culture. They were the first generation in human history to not only have <\/em>a “youth culture”, but to see their “youth culture” become society’s dominant social, artistic, media and eventually political culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And of course, the “Boomers” were having all the fun, earning all the money, getting all the cool jobs and thoroughly enjoying the soceital conversation being all about their demographic Long March. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As someone from the generation after them – whose only memory of the Beatles was hearing on the radio they’d broke up, for whom Vietnam and the Summer of Love were already history by the time I was old enough to learn about them, and who was keenly aware that I was going to be competing against an awful lot of them – I was already sick of hearing about them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Not sick of them<\/em> – per se. Just sick of all the constant overweening hyper focus on them, and the realization I’d be competing with them and their social publicity juggernaut for the rest of my life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So, why all the background?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because, Millennials? You are on track to be vastly more hated by your progeny than the Baby Boom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And you Zoomers have plenty of time to do even worse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You think the Baby Boom got entitled to having society rebuild itself around their needs, passions, dysfunctions and mistakes? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Millennials are no less entitled – and tack on a layer of manic hypersensitivity and victorian censoriousness, not instead of, but on top of <\/em>all that entitlement. And where the (stereotyped versin of the) Baby Boom obsessed on and define themselves by their material achievements and accomplishments, the Millennial stereotype is people suffocating everything around them with their maladies; no crowd of Fort Lauderdale yentas complaining about their rheumatism compares to an office full of millennials with their lactoses and glutens and dysthymias and celiacs and I’m feeling depressed just writing about it. And the whipsawing of Baby Boom politics – from hippies to Reagan voters – was a lot more interesting than the mushy gullible center-leftism that had you all voting for Obama – a decision we’ll be paying for for a generation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You’ve been warned. . <\/p>\n\n\n\n That is all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To: Millennials, And Maybe Some ZeepersFrom”. Mitch Berg, Obstreperous Peasant, Millie Parent And Generational AgnosticRe: Stop Digging Dear Millennials – and many of you in Gen Z, It’s not like I don’t understand the anger. When I was in high school and college, the “Baby Boom” was barely entering its prime years. The oldest ones […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,453],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-86395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accidentalconservative","category-ch-ch-changes-generational-politics","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86395","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=86395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86414,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86395\/revisions\/86414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}