The Great Debates - Valuble Posting or Not?

[JAB5239]

WARNING: Over analyzing the "generations" below.

The going complaint isn't that the boomers BSed Gen X with promises of utopia.

Instead the boomers ignored their children's upbringing while pursuing "themselves." (Doing their own thing.)

The term "latched key child" was coined for Gen X because of this neglect. They were the kids, where both parents worked, and spent their afternoon eating cold cereal out of the box, and watching superhero cartoons.

Earlier on (postwar America) it was the boomers who were BSed by the GI generation (their fathers) who envisioned for them a perfect society, one (not unsurprisingly) they couldn’t deliver.

Boomers felt deceived, Gen Xers ignored. Both came out embittered, but with different complains.

The middle-aged Xers are more aggressive because they were given less of a moral compass to work with. Mostly ignored by parents and society, they hold an individualistic survival attitude, separated from a sense of community.

It is why so many are Trump supporters.

Wow!! I wouldn't say I was neglected, but as a kid from 8 on up I was definitely left to my own devices while my parents ran our restaurant. I knew kids that were pretty much left alone for days at a time at 13, 14 years old. We got into plenty of trouble and mischief. But the time we were old enough to drive we felt like we owned the world and acted like it. I was always taught manners and respect (especially for our elders), but when there was no supervision (and there was little a lot of the time) it was game on. I said wow at the beginning of this post because what you said about Gen x........spot on!!

[Kid Cauliflower]

Sniffle, sniffle. Everyone is welcome to come on here every 3 days and answer the boxing post someone put up.