C-Mag wrote:A lot of this generational stuff probably has to do with your parents ad much as when you were born.
I'm right in there with ya Kath and Dr Youth. It was a great time to be a kid. I see my older siblings as more self centered too.
It has to do with the generation of most parents of your age group, not really your individual circumstances.
You are immersed in a culture and it's not really possible to separate yourself from it. As you grow up, you are surrounded by other kids who have a great influence in how you turn out. All kids are influenced by the parenting style and values of the parents that raise them, but that stuff carries over into interrelationships between kids.
What made Gen X what it was was the fact that most of the parents were Silent Generation types who had a hands-off approach to parenting. Gen X were free range, so-called "latch key" kids. Our parents were largely apolitical and apathetic towards politics in general.
Millinneals were raised predominantly by boomers. Their parents were helicopter parents. Their parents were hugely political and mostly batshit liberal. Competition was removed their lives. Accountability was removed. Everybody got trophies and were told they were all special snowflakes who deserved anything they could dream up. It should be no surprise that generation turned into the failure it is today.
Silent generation parents would say: fuck your feelings.
Boomer parents would obsess over the hurt feelings of their children.
It gets fuzzy around the borders, though. Young Gen Xers often have a silent generation father and a boomer mother. Some older millinneals are the same way. But that fuzzy boundary eventually gave way to all boomer parents and that's when the cancer began.
