Nice Wand
What Gen X was bashed for, Gen Y is praised for, and X isn’t going to take it anymore:
One need look no further than the local newsstand to see the favoritism the Millennials have received. Whereas Generation X was routinely denigrated by the press, the Millennials have been compared to World War II’s Greatest Generation. In Robert Strauss and Neil Howe’s Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation, the authors state authoritatively that “over the next decade, the Millennial Generation will entirely recast the image of youth from downbeat and alienated to upbeat and engaged.”
Sure, Generation X survived AIDS, Reagan, the Cold War, Tipper Gore, and A Flock of Seagulls, but those adversities, suggest Strauss and Howe, pale in comparison to what Millennials face today. Consider the stress of having to juggle a 30-hour work week while simultaneously maintaining Facebook, MySpace, and Flickr accounts. It’s enough to make your head spin! And maybe the Millennials never faced Hitler’s forces on the beaches of Normandy, but had they been around in 1944 (and had the technology existed), you can bet they would have blogged about it.
Hilarious article with great one-liners such as:
The only thing preventing us from flushing America’s future down the toilet was our lack of initiative. We were too slack to flush.
But also with some good points.
Having been born in 1979 I’m on the edge: a late to the party Gen Xer who grew up playing with some of Gen Y’s toys. But it’s hard not to see the similarities between the two generations and the differences in how they’re perceived. By and large, Generation Y gets it pretty easy and is getting an awful lot of praise and for what? Doing what Generation X did but with Twitter?
