Does anyone share my ambivalence?
On the one hand, I admire the idealism & creativity of the younger generation. I wish success to anyone focused on a dream, or at least a great new beer. Heck, I myself would love to sit in my room all day & blog (or FReep!).
However, the search for "meaningful work" does not do well once tradition (aka marriage & children) comes into the picture & compromises in lifestyle must be made. Maybe this guy should have taken the pharmaceutical marketing job & done his "true passion" on the side. Either that or win the lottery -- or live with his parents till age 40.
Maybe what a "yuccie" really wants is to be a starving artist without the starving part.
“What do we call me?”
Unemployed
Eventually they will learn they want what every other generation before them has. At that point some of them will wake up to just how badly they have screwed themselves.
How about Wimp? Dork is so yesterday......
Yuccies will do for me. As far as their being “creative”, don’t make me laugh. They’re as dopey and simplistic as they come. Their art sucks. Their music sucks. Their style of dress sucks. The food they eat sucks...
Does he wear a crocheted hat with all his hair stuffed into it?
In other words they are spoiled, self-indulgent children who want everything handed to them and do not want to have to do anything difficult or unpleasant.
My 26 year old daughter is a manager for a large corporation and supervises recent college graduates.
She says they are so into themselves it is ridiculous. She talks about how difficult it is to get them to take responsibility and actually get things done.
Fifth Century AD, some grizzled Roman General looked over the dough-bellied loungers strumming lyres and meditating on how very creative they were and how much that really mattered, and he shrugged his shoulders and wept for what was about to happen to his country. He was right.
I don’t get the single speed bike. This has become cool, but why?
I am leaning towards going back to a 3 speed, with an upright stance. But a heavy single speed, no way.
That describes the baby-boomers, and pretty much everyone after. Try again.
“Young Urban Creatives”
Creative? Uh, how?
Swear no matter what these idiots call themselves, they just have such an inflated ego about how important or creative they think they are.
Go produce something!
Yuccie (noun): A young, effete, effeminate, unaccomplished, self-loathing urban male.
I never ceases to amaze me that New Yorkers think that there is nothing outside New York.......
“Maybe what a “yuccie” really wants is to be a starving artist without the starving part.”
Kevin Williamson’s piece this week on precisely this attitude. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/419492/student-loan-deadbeats-fashionable-theft-kevin-d-williamson
Narcissistic boobs.
The left-wing establishment calls you a target.
