And so, we raised the most entitled generation ever, the first who are so ill prepared they cannot cope with the human cycle. We grew up with, in this country, an interminable war, a narcissistic president who was above the law followed by a completely likeable and useless one presiding over economic disaster. Wait, now, that's us and Vietnam, Nixon, Carter, double-digit inflation and the economic collapse of the seventies. Yet we managed, we lived, loved, played, worked, and built.
Our progeny are like deer in the headlamps this time around the same damn thing, times and events so similar as to be scary. Russian adventures aren't anything new, idiots in power, parties and government wholly ineffectual, the 2020s are the seventies all over again, even to the tune of a milestone American national anniversary coming (250 years) that sees little preparation perhaps because, in the context of its times, celebration seems just a little bit hollow.
The only difference is our progeny whine, cry, and won't even take the reins from us. Why are Boomers still being elected? Where are these people we raised? Hiding in our basements playing Halo and whinging on Twatter?
Life is tough. Always has been. Always will be. If life is easy and without conflict, that means there is no social upheaval that results in social progress, just stagnancy. We as a generation failed to teach them as a generation this truth: "A lifetime is tough, merciless, beyond painful, euphoric, joyful, rich. You get out of it what you put in it and failure to get anything from life never ever is anyone else's fault."
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