It doesn't work for me, either (and nicely done to bring the thread more-or-less back to its original topic). That said, I'm not sure how widespread that belief is among the current generation - I may have missed the stats if anyone posted them. I'm not saying that we have to respect and admire everything about the current generation of youth, just that all of this doomsaying about the younger generations has been going on forever (see the Aristotle quote given above), and will continue going on forever, regardless of whether its accurate. I also know that college students had some really dumb ideas back when I was going to school. Charging that a generation is lost because some of them want these ridiculous safe spaces and trigger warnings, or that they live with their parents for longer than we did, particularly given some of the reasons that they have for doing this, seems foolish to me.geezer wrote:Maybe? Sure, the 60's boomer protests are seen as a symbol of the era, and I guess their "sit-ins" and peaceful occupations could be seen as a physical rejection of the dominant culture's ethos, and today we have the various incidents that were the original subject of this thread, but I honestly don't recall my generation growing such fits. In fact, as I recall, we though the idea of "free speech zones" and such to be pretty repulsive. Maybe we really are the "whatever" generation and it's the impassioned kids before and after us that have it right, but generation of people that think certain ideas "hurt too much" to hear, and thus ought to be censored? That doesn't really work for me.ImLawBoy wrote:Doesn't that describe every generation of kids in their 20s and early 30s (at least from the perspectives of the older generations)?geezer wrote:but a generation of kids in their 20s and early 30s are convinced that they already have all the answers, to the point that they literally shut down opposing ideas
In summary, we should rightly deride the youth for safe spaces, but we should ease up on the living at home thing.
I think that resolves things. Should I lock up the thread?