” There’s probably more like him than the lazy, delicate flowers protesting on campus...but the flowers get all the attention.”
Yeah, sure, that’s why the millenials support gay marriage, and all the other radical leftist ideas by a wide margin.
Sure. And they're the only generation that does. The ones who support this crap do so because their parents either filled their heads with crap or let the public schools do it for them.
Or so the people in the media who report on polls of carefully selected populations would have us believe.
And who pumped them full of that crap? And who was guarding the guards?
I guess you can blame the lumber if you don't like the way the house turned out, but more often than not it is the craftsmen to blame.
The parents of millennials have allowed their kids heads to be pumped full of mush, and get to share that blame for not paying attention.
Part of human nature is the desire to blend in with the herd, and they are only acting like what they think the herd does. Watch MTV for a while and you will get a sample of that. Now they can access that drivel on everything from a computer to a phone to teevee, so they are never without it.
The selfsame media which ignores everyone from firemen to fighter pilots, Medal of Honor recipients to the real genius kids who are hyperachievers, makes heroes of people who can do back flips on bicycles, skateboards, or splatter out a profane jingle to a tribal rhythm.
When the bar for achievement has been set somewhere other than what has been traditionally viewed as accomplishment, when their parents (in some states) legalize weed for recreation, and when hard work, honesty, and achievement are presented as either a game for suckers or the destruction of Gaia, don't expect too much from the people who are seeing that as their example.
It is the parents who have allowed, even promoted this crap.
Many of the kids I know come from more hardscrabble beginnings, and don't buy into that rubbish. They want to work, but are held back by all sorts of rules designed to keep them out of the workforce long past the age where they would have developed skill sets and a work ethic in years past.
I recommend that our grandchildren become as proficient in English, math, and science as they can, that they learn History--especially what affects them, but that they learn a trade as well. If there is something they passionately want to pursue, fine, go to college, but not just because everyone else is doing it. Plumbers, Mechanics, and electricians (to name a few) are making decent livings out there while people with BA degrees are struggling to make ends meet and pay off college loans.
“What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.â€-John Wesley
These movements were started by baby boomers. What makes you think that other generations would not embrace it?