Boomers were epic assholes though, and dumb as fuck, so maybe that biases me, the Youngs just seem adorable in their unbelievable passion for shit that vague barely seems to matter. Everybody needs a hobby.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

that part was meant as a joke about old farts always saying the next generation is worse than their own.

Tbh, no single generation is free of assholes, nor is any free of good people. That's because people are assholes for the most part, and every generation has people that aren't :)

But, yeah, the amount of energy pumped into very niche things seems to be unusually high for kids currently. It never ceases to make me happy though.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're welcome to it, they deserve some passion in life.

I remember caring like hell about the earth, even trying to do things, that was considered about as threatening as the trans movement is to the same people now.

I fucking love millenials, they were so perfectly curious and interested, they learned things. There might have been millennial assholes, but I respected them because they seemed to be assholes because they cared and were idealistic, which is a perfectly reasonable way to be an asshole to me.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel the hell out of that.

It's part of why I married a millennial lol. Which sounds like an old school b movie. The horror! "I MARRIED A MILLENNIAL AND BARELY ESCAPED WITH MY SOUL!"

But yeah, that extra sense of caring, that seems to keep going up, even with all the anxiety and uncertainty the younger set has. They aren't afraid to help people, to reach out. Not saying everyone, but it's a lot different than when I was a kid, or a teen, or a young man.

It gives me hope, despite being a cynical old fart.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

They genuinely don't belong in the world we were born in, they ... are too fucking human.

We had to fight, for what came so noturally to them, makes my heart weep;

[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"My generation will put it right" Land of Confusion, Genesis.

Yeah, right😒

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The fuck does that even mean?

[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Listen that song (https://youtu.be/TlBIa8z_Mts). Or read the lyrics.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, I know the song, I was alive when it came out.

I just don't know what it has to do with what I said

[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That every generation thinks "we will do it right" and think the previous generation didn't know how to do it or that they did something on purpose.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Ahhh, gotcha.