Posted on 05/29/2016 10:26:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This week we learned that, for the first time in 130 years, more young adults ages 18-34 are living with their parents than not. We also learned (or were reminded) that students at Oberlin, one of the most prestigious colleges in the country, are wee wailing babies who are having the all-day equivalent of night terrors. You can hardly speak to them without using “magic circles” to soothe them.
These two trends aren’t coincidental: Millennials, and the generation following them, are reforming the country. What they’re creating amounts to the Childish States of America. If our national symbols were to be revised accordingly, the bald eagle would have to be replaced with a Teletubby.
At Oberlin, just about the friendliest, indeed most groveling, place on Earth for those who consider themselves members of marginalized groups, a black student complained, “My parents don’t have the funds to drive to Oberlin when I’m crying and ready to self-harm,” to The New Yorker’s Nathan Heller in an eyebrow-raising yet utterly unsurprising report....
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Expert: Millennials can’t find stamps, don’t mail in ballots
http://m.kcra.com/news/expert-millennials-cant-find-stamps-dont-mail-in-ballots/39728604
Hahahaha!
I pray that these lily-livered pansies will feel the harsh reality when they do have to go on their own, eventually.
They will grow up. And they will be angry. Hopefully some of them will be angry at themselves.
But hopefully too, they will channel that anger to work to make themselves better people, better citizens.
Hopefully they will be angry at the liberal pablum they have been fed, and realize that our country holds great opportunity for them, if only they reach out and work to achieve something in their lives.
I hope they get angry but realize that the systems we have in place will enable them to reach goals and achieve a happy life, if only they reach out and work for it.
Many of them need to get off the Adderall before they experience reality.
You see it in the ER as well. Some people are grateful for what’s being done for them, but you get a lot of folks who say you’re not doing anything for them because the doctor isn’t waving a magic wand and making them all better in two seconds (that’s after they’ve gotten an IV for meds, about two or three doses of pain meds, a meal, a blanket and a pillow).
I have seen a lot of young people at his rallies come out in support of Trump.
They are already angry because they know they are living at a time when our heyday has passed; TV bombards them with images of a lifestyle that unfortunately is beyond the reach of most of them - and they know it. I don’t think many will ever be “on their own”; economically, they’re basically forced to live with others (either family or room-mates) because the McJobs available to them restrict them.
these spoiled brats need a heaping dose of reality and the soner the better
By the time I was 26, I had already been working for 14 years, had gone through extensive technical and military training, had fought a war, and was working steadily and raising a family. I didn't have time to cry or seek a "safe space".
Being a snowflake must really be hell.
There have always been adult children living at home, some are better, some are worse, depends on what the parents have taught them. The best respect the rules of their parents’ home, hold a job or are actively looking for a job, they also pay their own bills, and sometimes pay a weekly rent, they also wash they own clothes and clean up after themselves and help with other chores. Then their are those who stagnate and their parents continue to treat them as children and the child either allows are demands they do. It’s nothing new, people marry later in life, housing costs are overwhelmingly high even for what is labeled low income housing, they prices are high.
Their Chinese overlords won’t be nearly as forgiving as the boom generation that preceded them.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............................
Virtually ALL of the new jobs in the LAST EIGHT YEARS have gone to foreigners (mostly Illegal, too).
No jobs.
Where do all these ‘foreigners’ live? All TWELVE to FORTY MILLION of them? (No garages left in Calif anymore—all are rented out to Mehhiccans.)
Maybe mommy and daddy’s basement is all that’s left them.
Just say’in.
This same phenomenon-—of narcissistic, infantile young adults-—was observed in Mao’s China, and was cited as a factor necessitating China’s cautious shift back toward capitalism under Deng Xiaoping.
Another factor related to spoiled children-—China’s population control/ forced abortion policy. Every child was an only child, and parents doted on them waaaay too much, leading to a nation of over-indulged brats.
I remember reading about this years ago.
Interesting parallels to what’s happening in the US now, especially since Maoist Red Guard tactics are being pushed in the culture.
I’ve taken some flak for suggesting that parents start restricting TV and Internet access not just because of moral reasons but because kids are going to be very frustrated when they graduate and there is just no way to have the lifestyle depicted for ~80% of them and have any sort of meaningful social/spiritual/family life.
There is absolutely no point in telling an eager-beaver teenager “shoot for the moon so even if you miss you land among the stars” only to have him hit 21 and realize his bow just doesn’t shoot that far, then become easy prey for the first person/group (likely socialism) promising to come to his rescue.
It is a good suggestion; I’ve posted on other threads that I’m glad my children never saw the 80s because this would all seem so disappointing to them.
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