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Every generation thinks kids these days are disrespectful, entitled brats. This is nothing new.
1946-1964
Oh yeah, 27 year olds are not entitled at all.
Fluffy wrote:
1946-1964
This is the correct response.
Really? 1986-now? Yea, screw those 2000ers. How dare little robby ask for extra dessert last night!?!
sharpie wrote:
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When were you born? Starting a thread with only a question mark in the body and expecting responses makes it likely that you're part of the Entitlement Generation.
Dennis Reynolds wrote:
Oh yeah, 27 year olds are not entitled at all.
nope your bak to a moronic again
No.
Why? They are the ones who have to buy into an inflated stock market, housing market, and pay job crushing payroll taxes because they don't have any accumulated wealth of their own.
sharpie wrote:
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A quick bump for the evening crowd.
Wrong. They'll be the no entitlements generation. We'll be the generation that doesnt get their entitlements that we've paid into for years.
What they are is the Borg generation. They are no longer in the real world, they exist in the hive mind of cell phones, facebook and twitter. They were assimilated. They didn't even try to resist.
I challenge anyone born after 1986 to go an entire week without using a mobile computer device. You can't do it. You'd die. It's your Borg regeneration unit.
Bad Wigins wrote:
What they are is the Borg generation. They are no longer in the real world, they exist in the hive mind of cell phones, facebook and twitter. They were assimilated. They didn't even try to resist.
I challenge anyone born after 1986 to go an entire week without using a mobile computer device. You can't do it. You'd die. It's your Borg regeneration unit.
Spent a week camping in northern Minnesota. Does that count?
Bad Wigins wrote:
What they are is the Borg generation. They are no longer in the real world, they exist in the hive mind of cell phones, facebook and twitter. They were assimilated. They didn't even try to resist.
I challenge anyone born after 1986 to go an entire week without using a mobile computer device. You can't do it. You'd die. It's your Borg regeneration unit.
Been there, done that. Your forefathers in the old west were the ones whining about how barbed wire made herding too easy.
t94bell wrote:
Spent a week camping in northern Minnesota. Does that count?
Yes, but it's kind of cheating. How can you use your mobile computer device when mosquitoes are eating you alive?
zamboomba wrote:
Bad Wigins wrote:What they are is the Borg generation. They are no longer in the real world, they exist in the hive mind of cell phones, facebook and twitter. They were assimilated. They didn't even try to resist.
I challenge anyone born after 1986 to go an entire week without using a mobile computer device. You can't do it. You'd die. It's your Borg regeneration unit.
Been there, done that. Your forefathers in the old west were the ones whining about how barbed wire made herding too easy.
No, I agree with the Borg Generation Theory. GENERALLY, these "generational" definitions are completely moronic. Like someone pointed out, everyone calls the generation of their children the entitled generation. But technology has drastically changed things. Whether you acknowledge this "progress" to be a good thing or a bad thing, it has radically altered the way we communicate with one another. We DO spend less time outdoors. We ARE increasingly burying our faces in cell phones, computers - even reading literature has been made into an electronic gadget (nooks, Kindles, etc). More than ever before, huge portions of our lives are being spent hooked into artificial universes of movies, TV shows, video games, text messaging, Skype, chat roulette, emailing, you name it. Resistance IS largely futile (most elements of Western society strive to better incorporate what they view as being the "progress" of civilization). Less developed countries that don't have these technologies in as large numbers strive to acquire them. It's not old fashioned or naive good ole boy nostalgia to say that people don't communicate and exist in a RADICALLY different way today than they did 25 or so years ago.
What IS naive - and this is the point of my post - is to take these changes as entirely bad or as entirely good. We can fetishize technological progress to the point where one day in the not too distant future, we actually will be Borg. Or we can recognize the importance of modesty and balance, and incorporate technology while retaining what was best about our past - more face to face conversations and interactions, and more people being healthy and spending time outdoors. That's the generation that I hope succeeds mine - the generation I hope to help build for my kids/grandkids(because I am undoubtedly a part of the Borg Generation).
The entitlement generation is whatever generation decided it was a good idea to move in mass from norther, coastal cities to places like Phoenix, continually building on the urban fringe, covering the landscape with highways and parking lots, and shipping water across states through the desert with no care for future sustainability. That's entitlement for ya.
City Planner 420 wrote:
The entitlement generation is whatever generation decided it was a good idea to move in mass from norther, coastal cities to places like Phoenix, continually building on the urban fringe, covering the landscape with highways and parking lots, and shipping water across states through the desert with no care for future sustainability. That's entitlement for ya.
Do not talk negatively about my supporters.
Older generations seem to always be calling these newer generations the "entitlement" generations. But let's remember it was under the leadership of the "baby boomer" generation that we have piled up this massive amount of debt we see today. While people born in the "1986-present" era have only gained the right to vote relatively recently and don't hold any power positions in society yet.
People try to put us down.... wrote:
Older generations seem to always be calling these newer generations the "entitlement" generations. But let's remember it was under the leadership of the "baby boomer" generation that we have piled up this massive amount of debt we see today. While people born in the "1986-present" era have only gained the right to vote relatively recently and don't hold any power positions in society yet.
Welcome to the party Captain Obvious