I don't normally read or even give a second thought to cracked.com, but this article hits close to home. Depending on who you ask (born in 81, but finished high school before 2000), I am either the last of Gen X or the first of the Millennial generation. Either way, I can relate to both in certain ways. I also don't relate to the both of them in certain ways.
Note that site contains some colorful adjectives but is generally non-offensive.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-we-ruined-occupy-wall-street-generation_p2/
At this moment, a whole lot of people, most of them 15 to 20 years younger than me, are protesting in every major city. What are they angry about? A lot of things, some of which are partially my fault.
See, I'm a part of Generation X, the post-Baby Boom era kids who grew up on a mental diet of Beavis and Butthead and Alice in Chains. We wrote poems about how angry we were at our fathers, wore goatees like weapons and made panties burst into flames by playing Pearl Jam's Black on our acoustic guitars. We were a bridge from the Baby Boomers to all you guys who are in high school and college now. And I'm pretty sure we ****ed up that handoff pretty badly.
This is not a sarcastic apology, I'm not a big enough dick to write all of this as a backhanded insult about how lazy and entitled you are. Because you're not.
I'm honestly apologizing for ...
#5. Making You Ashamed to Take Manual Labor Jobs
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#4. Implying That College Would Guarantee You a Good Job
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#3. Adding Seven More Years to Being a Teenager
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#2. Creating the Idea that Entertainment Has No Monetary Value
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#1. Taking Away Every Reason To Go Outside
(click the article to read some commentary about each bullet point)
Note that site contains some colorful adjectives but is generally non-offensive.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-we-ruined-occupy-wall-street-generation_p2/
At this moment, a whole lot of people, most of them 15 to 20 years younger than me, are protesting in every major city. What are they angry about? A lot of things, some of which are partially my fault.
See, I'm a part of Generation X, the post-Baby Boom era kids who grew up on a mental diet of Beavis and Butthead and Alice in Chains. We wrote poems about how angry we were at our fathers, wore goatees like weapons and made panties burst into flames by playing Pearl Jam's Black on our acoustic guitars. We were a bridge from the Baby Boomers to all you guys who are in high school and college now. And I'm pretty sure we ****ed up that handoff pretty badly.
This is not a sarcastic apology, I'm not a big enough dick to write all of this as a backhanded insult about how lazy and entitled you are. Because you're not.
I'm honestly apologizing for ...
#5. Making You Ashamed to Take Manual Labor Jobs
...
#4. Implying That College Would Guarantee You a Good Job
...
#3. Adding Seven More Years to Being a Teenager
...
#2. Creating the Idea that Entertainment Has No Monetary Value
...
#1. Taking Away Every Reason To Go Outside
(click the article to read some commentary about each bullet point)
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