Born in 71 and this is kinda true. Didnt spook out during the Covid propaganda. No masks or jabs in my home. We celebrated every holiday and birthday together with our families. What scared me through all of this as well as during 911 was how easy so many people can be frightened enough to relinquish their rights to power hungry tyrants just for the illusion of safety.
Most of your and my generation gave 0 fucks until they started cancelling us for simply poking some fun jokes at them. Or even just because we make stuff like music etc. they just forgot that we don’t like to be messed with.
Gen x here fuck em. If they don't like me. They think they know SO much and don't know shit standing as they have their cell phones recording instead of making a difference. I have 0 fucks left in me.
@@novacorps2468schools were different at our age, no social media. The main influences were our parents, friends, siblings, tv or movies. There’s a lot of older boomers who had kids late, it would be interesting to see the age demographic broken down. The last time I looked the newer gen’s were surprisingly high to boomers though
Gen X here and I don't hate anyone. Honestly I don't care enough about most people to hate them. Now having said that I would suggest everyone leave Gen X alone .
Man you are like my doppelgänger or something. Born in ‘71. But I say this all the time. I have a boomer friend that hates everyone and she’s like don’t you hate that person and I’m like I really don’t care enough to spend that kind of energy. I have a handful of people that I love and everyone else, meh 😒
Yeah, I don't hate anyone either, but if folks wanna get in the dirt to curb their enthusiasm, I am still way spry enough to accommodate. And I have not been to jail since 2017,so yeah.
GenX lived by the mantra of "I'd rather die than give you control." GenZ is the exact opposite. They're on the lines of "If you don't control them, then I'll die." Imagination is great, but reality will beat you down in a heartbeat. The new gen may figure that out one day. Hopefully, before they surrender all they have for the imaginary guise of safety.
Actually, we Gen X'ers grew up with Boomer parents like this. I'm a do your own thing but don't come for me, or you will find out. It's simple. I respect you, you respect me.
Head like a hole, man... great memories!!! Yep, and I was in college when that was out. Trent and Charles, lol. Colleges didn't destroy critical thinking skills in place of systematic brainwashing. It was the exact opposite for us. Critical thinking was everything. Question everything and find your own answers through your own experience, research, study, and thought process. Never settle for being a sheep and if what you are fighting for is supported and/or pushed but the government/industries, big tech, and corporations then something was defo wrong.
Gen X here. We live and let people live - we aren’t pissed off unless the bear is foolishly poked by stupid. Play stupid games with us, and we gladly reward with stupid prizes - FAFO.
Well, this was my point. They woke up bears by sending too many 20 year old feminists with pink hair and gay unicorn friends into the woods to hang out with bears. 🐻 So bears came out of the woods. Started shitting in our toilets and complaining about our toxic wives and entitled brats. Fuck it. I think it’s too late to take it back now.
That's true for the most part, but you gotta admit, sometimes we just get a wild hair up our ass to feed the trolls. The best part is the trolls don't really understand that we are purposely feeding them and they all strut around like they're actually winning.
@@sleepwellmychild word to the wise; Gen X has both trust and anger issues; and though we are "War weary", we are not only accustomed to but are also incredibly good at violence of action. The end result off all this is that it would probably serve in everyone's best interest to leave us alone. We don't play well with others.
@@heartfullyhonest I have to say that it has been eye opening and very telling and REFRESHING that NOT ALL of the youngsters are falling in line with the mainstream bullshit they are being taught! At least not in the south. I've seen quite a few videos of college kids fighting back and standing their ground here in Louisiana and other places. When they push back , the weak woke ones do not know what to do and it is beautiful!
This comment right here! I'm Gen X, born 1973. I love the younger generations. I love how they've taken their identities into their own hands and put their feet down when defining what "normal" is. I love the changes they continue to make -- changes I was desperate to see in my own youth. Some day soon it will only be the younger generations and honestly I'm here for it. What I don't love is the idea Millennials and Gen Z sometimes have in mistaking privileges for rights. Freedom is something you never stop fighting for; the Boomers that Be will snatch them away the moment you acquiesce. Gen X blazed some trails, but it's up to the younger generations to maintain them and build on them. As they have been. But understand that the fight is never over with boomers. Any "yes" you get from them should have "for now" attached to it. The best parenting we got was being ignored and that's the stuff you see us joking about on TikTok etc. What the younger generations don't hear about was what the boomers did when they were paying attention. That's when shit got hard. That's the stuff we don't talk about. Or when we do, we make dark jokes about it. Let us have that. We can get through our day just fine with humor. What really, really angers me though is when I get lumped in with the boomer generation. We were the first ones they traumatized and we've bent over backwards trying to shield everyone else from them. Now, we're all trying to take care of elderly boomers after all the shit they put us through -- while fighting the temptation to pull the plug or drop them off somewhere in a home. I'm joking. Mostly. Please don't lump us in with boomers. It's a slap to the face. If you got some lousy Gen X parents I'm truly sorry for that -- but every generation has them. Hell, my boomer parents were junkies who met in a psych ward. I wish I were joking. So I get it. But please, for the love of whatever you may hold holy, don't tell me I'm just like them. I'm not. In fact, them's fighting words. Our three generations can overcome all this nastiness if we point the political gun at our actual enemy.
@fryskomuttens We are actually known as Xennials. Anyone born between 1977-1983 is now known as Xennial. We are on the cusp of both Gen X & Millennial. We are the micro-generation. As a kid I had friends from the late 70s & middle of the 80s. Our experiences were the same.
yea Gen X are smarter i think my upbringing was similar to late gen x just with more technology like video games and vhs .the gap used to seem bigger but the small differences don't matter as much compared to the huge changes in the 2000s and 2010s
'66 GenXer here...we know that divide and conquer is the common weapon of the negative powers that be...we also know that investing in our future self is how we grow as human beings.
Nobody cares, even gen x doesn't that's why they say "I don't care" so much because they're not in the businesses of caring unless it's to make money off it.
“Division is how you get manipulated” is by far one of the most powerful lessons we all need to learn. Instead of telling ppl how they should feel, we would be much more united if everyone minded their own business. Gen X just wants to live without ppl telling us what to do.
George Carlin (RIP -- a boomer comedian if you are not aware of him) made this observation in a comedy segment he did about the rich keeping people fighting against each other so they could run to the bank with all of the money. Very wise and quite before his time.
1970 Gen X here. Pissed off? No, not pissed off. Not me anyway. More disappointed than anything else. “Older generations are there to teach and the younger to learn”, has always been the common belief. I call B.S. We ALL learn and teach each other. All wars are stupid and actually solve nothing. To include generational wars! It’s time for us all to be more human. That has always been the answer, regardless of generations!
Gen X doesn't care enough to be angry. 🥱 Internet wars are not RL. Gen X grew up outside, in the real world, in real life. We compartmentalize what's real vs what is not real. There is no "competition" with Gen X. Like, we literally don't care If you inducted us or "drafted"is, we didn't get the memo🤨 And like a subpoena officer, we will ignore the attempts to serve. -we're so indifferent, bro, consider it forfeit. -whut ever you need to go away play pretend wars somewhere else. Gen X gives zero Fvks
Gen X here. Pragmatic as hell. Speaking with a gen Z about a problem that needs to be solving and they start talking about their feelings and how my criticism and feedback on the problem hurts their feelings. The amazing part is, the problems that need to be solved have nothing to do with them personally. I have no problems in my social group. Always with governments and bussiness. Yet they always make it about themselves. Just amazing.
@@16m49x3 says every clown who doesn't have kids at all... Buddy, parents don't control the environment in which kids grow. If you keep saying that, I hope you are not a parent, because you talk like a screw up.
I am Hapa/Hawaiian that grew up hating America because they imprisoned our Queen and took my family's land away. Fast forward. Spent youth protesting US Military bombing my ancestors graves. When i found myself unable to support myself I joined the army because I needed an education and it was free there, no other branch would take a drop out. I am female. Boot camp was coed. I soared through boot camp because I was fit, most of us were. I soared through through AIT and discovered I had a photographic memory. My first assignment was SKorea....where I learned what real oppression was and fear and communist influence and starvation, homelessness in a war stricken frozen over dog farming orphaned half American babies destined to street lives place that being shot dead in the street by police with M16's was not something to question or you will be late for your 12 hour shift and its better not to question the rule of law in a foreign country where its troops were taught to hate and not trust women. Over two years there. Then off to the 24th infantry. When I finally Ets, I was educated, learned in countless life's lessons, appreciated My country, would easily die for it and thought I was ready for life. When I arrived back home in Honolulu, no one was waiting for me, no one cared, i was a traitor. I lived the rest of my life trying not to be like the parent that raised me, I managed it well, kids are good raising their own fine children but as I look at the stupid kids in this country I know my truth, I was them once, not as self centered or disrepectful, but I was young and dumb and hope the young and dumb of today get a rude a waking before its too late, rude awakenings stick better.
GenX 1969 here. I started working when I was 15. Until I got into my stride in my early 30s, I hated most of my jobs. Instead of bitching about it, I kept showing up for work, and I would show up early and get the job done. Eventually, I worked myself into good positions. I don't have time to listen to GenZ bitch, I am too busy working and suffering, getting old sucks. I was homeless a couple of times, now I own property and take care of myself, by myself. I have a measure of peace in life finally, and I am thankful for it. I am alone, but I am not lonely. I know how to fight for real, but I never look for fights. People should focus on what they have in common, not on what differences divide them, and pissing on people just because you can is crap behavior. Be kind to one another, life is hard.
As a GenX that used to run both Track and Cross Country back in my high school days, I was always competing against my own times at prior events. No other runners on the course/track mattered. Only that I bettered myself.
Boomer here, 1962. I actually agree with what he said. For the life of me, I don't remember ever talking against my parents or their generation as a whole; and why it's all our fault, meaning Gen X and Boomers, is beyond me. And this gentleman is correct; I do not care what you think your pronouns are or what gender you identify with. That is your issue.
Waaaait… is that because you’re a later Boomer? Because the definition of being a Boomer was talking against previous generations. It’s kinda what made them what they were.
@@BeeWhistler Not where I came from. I was raised to be respectful to my elders. I'm going to turn 62 next week, and I honestly cannot remember ever talking about my parents' generation. Kind of hard to do when your parents are part of the Greatest Generation. I guess I missed or misunderstood when he was talking about Boomers blaming their parents. He did have a bit of an accent, nothing wrong with that. But honestly, my mom was one of 11 children, I have around 40 or so first cousins, had many friends and I never heard one complain about a generation as a whole. Sorry I rambled.
Well, I am 1957, every thing was a secret and told to keep secret. Then we learned that secrets are not good for the victims, then the generational dysfunction landed on their lap and so did Autism…and the mess we live thinking this is the best life style and nation on earth…..we are truly evolving dear. The web ruined many in 2 generations, already!
Dude. Your parents were the Greatest Generation. I know, i was raised by them (73) because my Spawn Point abdicated parenthood in favor of a second childhood. Pretty much the only thing to criticize were their sex hangups, alcoholisim, and ignorance of fossil fuel poisoning. They left the Boomers an economic paradise. Ronnie Regan and Yale Steering Committee took off the regulations and drove in onto the rocks because "whoever gets the most toys wins." Dont flutter those lashes at me, your mother raised me too, and i remember being taught a lot of things you Boomers have convieniently forgotten.
I was born in 1981, raised by boomers, and also hung out with Gen X. Gen Z decided to summon Gen X instead of summoning a demon lord; this would not go well. I have popcorn for this showdown; however, I probably will not get to eat much before Gen Z throws in the towel. Also, Gen Z should have elected to summon the demon lord. I'm just saying.
Born in 1983 here. I think they would have better luck with the demon lord in actual fact. When Gen x speaks, millennial's listen. Gen x is coined the silent generation for a reason. Things just got real when Gen x uses their voice.
That demon lord belongs to Gen X. We're a generation that bought Oija boards at toy stores and played with them "just to see if they worked". We got that bitch on standby. 😂
I’m an Aussie Post Menopausal GenX 1968 woman…The crap I’ve dealt with has prepared me well for REAL life. The youngsters are the snowflakes…We’re the fvcking Avalanche. 😁👍🏼
Born in late 60's makes me one of the first genx... we are laid back.. we don't give a fffk... we were slackers but never lazy... sex, drugs, and rock n roll defined us. Our demanding parents sharpened our senses. With our never say die attitude , and our attention to detail we should be the last people anyone wants to mess with, because our mantra was we don't get mad ... we get even. Young'uns read stuff and think they know something... we lived it and learned from school of hard knocks. We earned our scars! We raised kids .. we helped and sometimes raise grankids.. all of them still rely on us... try not to piss us off . You really won't like us when we actually get angry. We are survivors.
I mean, sure… or we’re all a bunch of scarred, damaged people who were thrown into a pit to devour each other while the adults watched and said, “Dunno why that one kid is just letting them eat her alive like that. Probably should step in and stop them. Oh well.”
"Seggs, drugs, and rock" normalizing drug culture, hook up culture, crass anti traditionalist sentiment also destroying the idea of monogamy and marriage WHICH furthered the gender imbalance manifesting a feminized male population and masculine female one... THANK YOU 👏👏👏👏
While everyone else loses their minds, me and my fellow GenX'ers put our heads down, get the job done, and block out the noise. Once in a great while, we'll grab some popcorn, sit back and watch the madness for cheap entertainment.
Gen X person here. I try to understand that we were once the free thinkers wanting to inspire and change the world. We lived, fought, loved, and gained experiences. We have seen more change in the world than arguably of any generation. We have changed everything. From the way we exchange ideas, technologies, monies, and the way we travel to the way we fight wars. I understand that we need that passion to continue. So as to literally change the world that we live in. We also need to respect the elders and the learned lessons of the past least we repeat them. We are facing that now in today's climate with the brewing division of the races due to politics. We tried segregation before. We fought to end segregation before. And now this division of generations. More infighting. More drama. More distraction. More uncaring for the nation as a whole. More smoke and mirrors to keep us unfocused, amused, and angry all at the same time. Easier to control and pass laws to hinder the commoners and benefit the elites. The haves and the have nots if you will. All of us have nots are fighting each other while the haves of all colors, races, sexes, and sizes get along happily. Eating the best, wearing the best, drinking the best, laughing at the have not's fighting each other over nothing like dogs in a cage.
That's right and the 1% wants it that way. It's too bad so many are too foolish to see this. My grandmother always told me that the next war fought on US soil will be a class war. She was right.
Gen Z doesn't even realize that they act just like our Grandfathers; who were angrily trying to force people to think a certain way, or you got kicked out of the family.. cancelled in today's wording. We're not forcing our thoughts, how to do things onto young people, and we don't want you trying to force your way of living, thinking, doing things on us. We have obviously let you be who you think you are, and we have accepted a generation with very different ways of living life. Now accept us, as well...
It's fascinating and amazing to see these kids act just like stupid, Bra Burning Boomers, and at the same time, mock and hate on Boomers. I'm like, You know that you're worse than them, don't you? You know that the youth are gonna hate you and be justified when you're in your 70s and 80s, right? But they don't know. I do, though.
The irony of a whole generation of people that try to make everything about their feelings. Their wants, their desires. Believing themselves to be the most aware and most intelligent. Provoking division under the guise of unity. Learning that their self centered and self righteous stance on their own beliefs is actually what makes them the ultimate narcissistic generation. Projection? I think Gen xers have done a pretty good job at allowing them to flip flop in their own pity pot. Since Gen xers wholeheartedly don't care I guess that makes us the ultimate gatekeepers of cancel culture. So they need to understand exactly all the power that they truly do not hold. Best of luck out there.
This man is my people. I'm a millennial, raised by boomers, raised by depression era parents. I've always been poor. And as a result, I have a working knowledge of all things.
@@themarlboromandalorian That's really interesting to have that gap between you and your parents. I thought the gap between me and my parents was big because generally Boomers had GenX/Latchkey kids not Mills.My Dad was 30 and my Mom 28 or 29.I would love to see you interact with each other.
Gen X here. Im happy to have you be an honorary member of Gen X. You only missed it by like 2 years. There is an "in-between" few years called Xennials. I may not speak for all Gen X, but I do speak for me, and Im happy to have you, your mindset, pragmatism, and honesty right here with us. Blessings to ya my friend! PS - I dont think they'll ever lean to not poke the bear. They do eat tide pods, after all.
Yep, born 1982... I was still getting up on my own to go to school at morning when I was 6 years old 😅 And returned to empty home on afternoons. But my 69 born GenX mother left me alarm clocks to time me by at the morning 😅 So I was not "totally on my own" lol 😅 And of course, I walked to school throught the forest for a couple of kilometres 😁 But that was all ok, it was different times back then. So the shift did not happen by the year..but gradually. Some millenials have traces of the Gen X- common sense 😊
@@SatumainenOlento absolutely! I did the same, and also walked, or biked, to school by myself. I just squeaked in to Gen X by being born in 79. In ways, I'm a Xennial too. So yup! Agree fully with you!
@@MarquisLeary34 what a ridiculous assumption. Your mind taking that well known, long used phrase and going directly to violence, especially THAT violent, is extremely troubling. It would also be wise to stop projecting your own violent thoughts and animus on to others. You should seek some help for that.
1979 GenXer (aka Xennial), raised by early 50s Boomers. Yep. We were the forgotten generation. Until some decided that we weren’t shat on enough in our lives. Working FT from the age of 14 on paper (PT since 8 off the record), paying rent at 16 (and paying for all our own stuff), injured? meh… walk it off or rub some dirt on it… college wasn’t really worth anything (yet) and trades positions were all already filled by our parents. 2008 lost homes, filing for bankruptcy, not welcome in anyone else’s homes to get back on track. Working multiple jobs just to make sure our kids were fed and safe. Going back to school for a degree because your employer says that you can’t move up the ladder without a degree (even though they didn’t have one)… so, now accruing student loan debt in your 30s. Realizing that you’ll never be able to retire, because no more pensions, there won’t be SS income anymore, and the stock market has taken so many nose-dives that our 401Ks are crap… still have our GenZ kids living at home because the housing market is asinine… but thankful for a decent enough salary to pay the bills. Oh… and helping our aging Boomer and Silent Gen parents, because they need us yet again. Yeah, no we don’t care about dumb shit. Sorry. We have our own shit to deal with here. People don’t seem to realize that Silent Gen and Boomers are in our federal government now and have been as long as I’ve been alive… how about we get some more people that have struggled in the federal government for once? Let’s try some GenX and Millennials for a while.
They're pissed because we don't need the crybaby generations. Gen X and us Boomers can survive just fine without their issues. Grow up and realize you can't win by crying about EVERY LITTLE THING!
GenX since 1971 here. Since the day we were pushed unwillingly out of our mother's womb, Gen X has had to fight and claw for everything. As latchkey kids in the 80's, we Gen X kids came home to empty houses not because we wanted to but because Mom and Dad were off trying to earn a living. Cooking food for yourself and your siblings while trying not to burn down the house tends to make you grow up quick. In later years, when those of us who could attend college graduated, there was a scarcity of jobs when the Cold War suddenly ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. All those boomers who were working for defense contractors were now scrambling to find jobs elsewhere. So, guess who got the fuzzy end of the lollipop? Gen X. On a side note, many of the Gen Xers who could not find work in the 90's took government jobs not because they were "cool" or "trendy" but because the government sector was one of the few places were they could find employment. Throughout the 90's, Gen X was called the "Slacker Generation" and many of us feel that it was an unfair label. UA-cam Genxer, Dayoffnow, had this comment on why Gen X got the "Slacker" label. Shout out to Gen-X Rosey for her very insightful video -- ua-cam.com/video/fuqv2sOVI1c/v-deo.html We were called "slackers" because of the "Great Economic Turnaround" that happened just as the first Gen X-ers were graduating from college and seeking jobs. The economy had been booming - then it suddenly tanked. Many X-ers couldn't find jobs and/or moved back in with their parents. That got us labeled "slackers" by the Boomers. I was shocked to read the continual attacks on our generation in the news media, because most of us held jobs throughout high school and college, paid our own way through college, worked diligently at our jobs, and had great goals for our lives. Then we faced several more major recessions. We lived through "down sizing," "restructuring," and "right-sizing" in the workforce - all of which really just meant you could lose your job at any moment even if you were performing well. At least twice in one decade, I lost my job because my entire department was cut. Gen-X has never been slackers. We have been mislabeled and misunderstood. We learned early on to ignore that, stay under the radar, and keep moving forward. I agree with Dayoffnow. In the 90's, GenX worked hard (damn hard) to find any job they could get but, unfortunately, the jobs we could find most often were low paying and did not require a college degree. Do a search for "Millennial and Gen Z regretting their college degrees" and you see history repeating itself. ua-cam.com/video/Iw2rwcomE0s/v-deo.html Side Note: Not all degrees are useless, according to this video -- ua-cam.com/video/V63ELIpfd2g/v-deo.html But, (and this is my opinion) if you are unable to find a job after completing your degree, try adding more skills to your resume. This is what I did. Sites like Udemy.com and Linda.com are an affordable way to add skills and skills help you pay the bills. :) Now, back to Gen X and the perpetual sh*t shower that rains on them. For a while, it seemed like Gen X could never catch an even break. However, Gen X did get some recognition at the start of the new millennium. When the planes hit the twin towers on September 11th, 2001, Gen X first responders were on the scene trying to save lives. But, this momentary recognition was fleeting and 7 years later, Gen X had yet another curve ball thrown at them. A lot of Gen X savings basically evaporated like vape smoke with the financial meltdown of 2008. Then, in 2020, while some of us were looking forward to our kids' graduations, we had to cancel plans and go into lock down mode due to Covid-19. Side note, I lost a relative and a friend to Covid in 2020. My daughter, who was entering 9th grade that year, was forced to do online learning and absolutely hated it. I told my daughter that, like it or not, this was what we have to do in order to survive and minimize the number of Covid deaths. I next informed her, in the most non-patronizing tone that I could muster, that pandemic might someday be a defining moment of her generation. Then, like any bratty 14-year-old child of a Gen Xer who senses BS, she rolled her eyes at me but, in the end, she did as she was told. And, if things weren't bleak enough already, Gen X has the "largest wealth gap of any generation" which means retirement is going be an Effing nightmare for us. :( Source: finance.yahoo.com/news/gen-x-largest-wealth-gap-151519560.html So, we are are basically working until we drop dead. Fun Times.
To sum up, Gen Xers, from the get go, have been ignored, disparaged, crapped on, etc... you get the idea. Whether it was coming home to an empty house, not getting that ideal job fresh out of college, losing savings or loved ones to a catastrophe or crisis, Gen X always seems to get a raw deal. But, instead of giving up, most Gen Xers have tried to make the best of what they were given. So, here is my advice to our younger siblings (Millennial, Gen Z, etc): Life is NOT Fair. We, Gen Xers learned that lesson from an early age. But, you have (3) options in dealing with said sh*t show: (1) Whine and Complain (2) Give Up (3) Keep on Trucking. Option 1 is what we Gen Xers are good at. Hell, we perfected it. Regarding Option 2, I knew a few Gen Xers who chose this option and "clocked out early" (in other words, they are now dead and buried). I do not recommend option 2. :( Option 3 is what I tell my 18-year-old daughter who is about to go to college and, personally, I think it is the best option. I also tell her that when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Final Words of Advice: 1 - Stay strong and keep on trucking. Remember that life is a marathon, not a sprint. Take all those lemons that life gives you and make lemonade. Hell, mix in some vodka and make it a "grown-up" lemonade. Whatever you want. You do you. However, do drink responsibly. If it becomes a problem, get help (see Advice Tip #6). 2 - You're smart. To quote Doctor Suess, "You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes". Just make sure you put both of them to good use. 3 - Keep your skills up to date. Never let the ink dry on your resume. 4 - If you make a mess, clean up after yourself. 5 - Try not to get triggered when someone who loves you gives you heart felt advice. (sarcasm alert: like right now). 6 - If you got a problem, work it out (that's what we did). You have the internet (which is something we didn't have growing up). Anything you can't figure out, Google it. Don't be afraid to ask for help if you're stuck. If you don't ask, you don't get. However, understand that we Gen Xers have been crapped on since day one of our existence so we do not "suffer fools gladly" (in other words, we don't have time for Snowflake BS). Hell, we're just trying to get our sh*t together before taking that long dirt nap. :( Now please stop bothering us. We're tired. We got bills to pay. We love you but we don't have the time nor the energy to fix your problems. That's your part of the piano. Oh yes, and about that little feud you're having with the boomers (yes, we were paying attention), please don't involve us. See Final Words of Advice #4, #5 and #6. Good Luck.
Behave! That’s a very constructive and serious comment anyone can learn from. And if you don’t, you’re missing the point of my message as a whole. You’re welcome to self reflect and come back again when you did that.
I had to watch the video again, I was like I didn't hear an accent? After many years of many mason jars with people I can understand some stuff that would be more of grunting and pointing,but yeah I share a jar of shine with ya,you get the second one,if we run out of gas too far from civilization or the mountain too steep for the fuel pump position,we can use it as gasoline, but I would rather siphon some from somewhere.
But you know he's exactly right too,we had this beat into us from childhood up literally,but we were raised to stay out of the church too,you have friends that might as well be your sibling because they show up in the middle of the night,tell you to leave your cell,throwing you a weapon, you are going, and never talk about it again
@@KatrinaRoseT and the people that came from the Holler,we were in the forest ALOT! picture the smell of pine now close your eyes how many gerbils am I juggling in my mind?if a whompascat was on a train in Nashville and Dr CC did finally get the medicine to me,let's teach some poodles how to fly!
Sorry I meant to say,the people that we acquired the green sticky icky from back then ,were coon hunter's they had flashlight on their head and were chasing the dogs thru the forest,we were poor (sadly Bass strings were high back then too
'72, and I've been there, done that. Im comfortable with who I am. I'm certainly not pissed, I am lmfao. Us gen exers had our crap together, and we were completely independent by age 8. These babies, are still waiting for their mommies to wipe their snotty noses, and their shcitty arses. I think if we give them their bottles, a bit of medication, and a nap, they wouldn't be so cranky.
Gen X knew how to get along. Metal heads would be friends with people who listened to Debbie Gibson. Zers and Mers are too busy building dividing lines over everything that its an effen maze!
I just spent a week in city jail for a minor infraction. There were a few hundred of us. The only guy to get slapped around a bit was one gen-z who was critical of everyone - yet hid his face behind a mask 'because he's shy'!!! He was described aptly as 'annoying and creepy like a spider'. :)
Sadly, our live and let live attitude has run afoul of the modern "obey my ideology or face the consequences" insanity of much of the youngest Millennials and much of Gen Z.
So, Gen X. Gen X are their parents. Everyone blames Millenials, but the only Millenials with teens and 20 something kids were the teen parents and the very early 80s born Millenials. Everyone else either had elementary age kids or are child free by choice. We're the ones family members keep pushing to have kids, because half our generation doesn't really want kids. Gen X is complaining about their own kids😂
Yes and no. The ones who are functional and see through the BS got good instruction at home, but for the most part Gen Z was raised by the broken public school system and toxic social media trappings. Gen Z's parents were both out working to try to keep the mill going and pay off their loans while their kids' lives were entirely scheduled and planned to the hilt in after school programs and camps. As much as you try to keep your kids away from all these bad influences, you can't and still have them interact with the world, so you have to teach them to recognize and counter the BS, and do that somehow without making them so weird that they don't have any friends. Every generation does their best in the environment they were dealt. The most lasting lessons learned are the ones that result from natural consequences. Gen Z will live and learn. But let's just hope our civilization survives long enough to give Gen Alpha their turn at the meat grinder. Nevertheless, Gen X is, of course, the best generation. ;-)
So true. Everyone thinks they know it all when they are young. Nonparents think they know what it takes to parent. Then a few kids and years down the line when life hits them with a ton of bricks they realize that they were talking out of their asses in their youth.
I think that's The issue the Gen Z have with Gen X. They think that Gen X all act like they were rebels fighting the system but see no evidence of it beyond listening to metal and tuning out, and now the people in the school board meetings banning books and nonsense like that are Karen's from that generation as the boomers slowly die out. It's not really a generational thing, just older people getting more religious and having more time and power to cause more damage. It'll be Millennials in a decade or so and the alphas will complain just as hard.
In other words; every wise person is smart but not every smart person is wise. Theory alone is always wrong and in practice we wouldn’t be able to become more efficient if we didn’t study advances in theory.
'68 Gen X'er here... I survived the terror of growing up in the Cold War, so Gen Farts dont even get on my radar. Carry on, little ones, life will fuck you over before we need to.
The school kids of today have just had the idea that they could kill grandma by breathing on her , the climate is changing with each year that they grow, every move they make will be under the surveillance of technology and they are seeing the slow start of WW3... I suspect the newest generation will become something out of the ordinary...
Born in 74. I think we see the BS that is being thrown in everyone’s face these days and aren’t afraid to speak our mind and stand our ground. We were definitely raised to figure it on your own so that’s what we do. We made friends easily but wasn’t afraid to knock someone’s teeth out for being stupid. We made plans ahead of time by phone or knocked on a friend’s door to find out what up. If we wanted to go somewhere we jumped on our human powered bikes and went. We entertained ourselves a lot times outside all day.
1978 Gen x here...we don't get mad...we don't care. Didn't care when we suffered, didn't care when we got our first jobs at 14...didn't care when our parents got divorced, didn't care when the Berlin wall fell, when the challenger exploded, didn't give a fuxk when Freddy died of aids or when Kurt blew his brains out...didn't care in 92 when la burned down, didn't care when Oklahoma and Waco and ruby ridge happened...still don't care and still don't give a fuck.
Thought Gen x was 1965-1980 whatever, I don't care...not gonna argue that. Alternative culture was commodified and bought and sold. Sure OG punk and hard-core and alternative culture cared when it was diy and underground but than was bought and sold and put on MTV. Don't even know why I responded to this to be honest.
I would also add Gen x was raised and taught to know two great things...sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me And...your rights end at your nose
You spoke a lot of truth here. I especially like the your touching on trying to be a better person than we were yesterday. Personal accountability is key for personal growth. Besides can't move forward if stuck in the past playing the blame game. Well done 😉👍
Gen X and grateful I was born 76. I learnt so much from the older generation and if I'm honest I don't know if I care enough to now begin to pass on a load of life lessons and hacks. If fact if I'm honest I feel so detached from the new global views, its completely opposite to how I was raised. We were hard fast and ready, we got a long or we didn't but it was upfront on honest. We worked hard, played harder and generally did what was ask and found ways to get it done fast and easy as possible. The world seems so inflexible and serious these days. None of us are getting out of here alive. Be grateful, and work hard to build a life you will enjoy living and be proud of.
We should be sharing everything we have. Whether they receive it or not is not up to us anymore. We did plant the seeds. They must grow their own gardens.
Every previous generation has problems with the successor generation. I refuse to trash my successors, I prefer to spend my energy fighting the tyrants who control us so our future generations can live free.
I am a gen zer But I try to understand these videos as objectively as I can Honestly, I think you actually are one of the best people out there trying to advice us And you mentioned that plenty of us are smart, thank you, but we still acknowledge that we still have light centuries to know what life is, and we are certainly not the smartest..... I liked this video, so please, keep making more videos, and keep advicing the idiots of our generation... You gained my respect
And you, young padawan, have definitely deserved my respect. We all learn from each other. Ask my kid, he is my biggest teacher. :) They all are. I'm really glad this video found you, and that you found it so welcome for yourself. Made my day! I hope you enjoy the rest of them too.
Where was this attitude in the video, why highlight the negative with no positive. I know it's hard to find right now but you can't tear someone or a whole generation down and expect them to take it as anything other than an insult. We need to instill wisdom, not post something that can be perceived as an attack or insult. Trust me I agree, I couldn't yell at my subordinates in the military without going to sensitivity training. But we need to show them and teach them about self worth, discipline, self determination motivation manners all of that.
Clearly you have a very great sense of sarcasm and what was really the heartfelt message. Either way, I’ve responded to you in your own thread. There’s no need to enforce your own opinionated points across the board. You can come to discord and try to articulate and elaborate yourself without going into character and personal attacks. And I will listen if you can show enough self regulation to understand the difference between who I really am in real life. And if you cared to check out more of your content, I’m certain that it would have given you a lot to see about yourself in the end.
On top of that, I’ve intentionally linked two videos at the end of the clip, which are easy to find anyway. I understand really well what grabs attention and why. You have to ask yourself then why you get triggered and check out who is the person posting content, what else they post and say. And then maybe you can step out of the self created bubble called perception, and gain a perspective from a point of view you may not agree with but it might still enlighten you. The biggest hypocrisy is to assume you know a person from a few minutes clip when all it takes is a few more clicks to see what else is there. Superficial remarks and criticism is the first level of immature behavior regardless of what you’re trying to get across.
@@heartfullyhonest I don't care who you are, if you're trying to make a point make a point clearly. Why do I have to know a person to listen to their points? Is it required to understand the person? If that's the case we need a serious rethink of elections across the board. Or do you know everyone you vote for personally? You know in the Navy we had a saying, perception is reality. I'm also really sorry for the grammar, but that's not nit picky by you right? Oh keyboard warrior right right...are you out there in person doing things organizing event raising awareness for the division which goes beyond generations? Or are you just making videos replying to comments? Does making videos exempt you from the keyboard warrior label? And what about my content, I'm not a content creator. I'm still stuck on the title, don't know how that's supposed to be positive, when this was supposed to be a heart felt message? Ok. We'll agree to disagree.
Xenninal here 1982. I related more with gen x. I don't hate Gen z. I'm just tired of their 2 year old toddlers' cognitive function. They need to grow up.
1968 here. I lived through a time where my dad a psychiatrist was able to beat, not spank, but beat the hell outta me and my brother! We went to police, they took pictures and they took us back home! What he did would land him in prison today! At least it was us and not all my younger brothers and sisters!
85 here, I guess I am a millennial. But I grew up with a stereo tower, a gold velour couch, and a TV with dials, so I don’t know. I have to admit I am pissed off at the generations before me because I trusted that adults were always going to take care of us and protect us from bad guys. But now I realize that they didn’t actually care if I truly had freedom, they just wanted to make sure I would behave and not embarrass them - and all the while they declined to investigate the corrupt adults in their midst. so my husband and I and our generation are in a massive hole trying to get out to give our children back some of the freedoms that we lost - the freedom to bike 5 miles to somewhere without fear of being abducted or having child services called. The freedom to start and run a small business without needing a lawyer and an accountant to keep the government off our backs. The freedom to buy food without being afraid that it’s going to slowly poisonous to death - so many of us are becoming homesteaders so that we can know it’s in our food. The freedom to truly speak our minds and challenge politicians without fear of being arrested or have our children taken away. These are legit problems, so it’s hard to hear older generation say “we fought for your freedoms“ - I I don’t think that’s true. I think they fought for the Oligarchy. I think they fought for the petrodollar. I think they were lied to and so I don’t blame them for that, but i’m very disappointed that they didn’t turn around and riot against the machine when they realize they had been played. We’re supposed to look up to them. I’m looking for the next George Washington, for the next Samuel Adams.
They tried... I don't know if you remember the 'Tea Party' under Obama, but they were Mocked by the media and dismissed by the mainstream. Funny enough, it was Millennials who came out in full force for Obama, and this was around the start of the real divide and conquer that we see today. Financial crisis' come and go like clockwork, but today's problems can be directly tied to the shenanigans of the Progressives and their policies. And who votes for that...? Mostly younger people. So, to put the blame on older generations is misguided. Otherwise, we would have seen this type of Fallout a long time ago. Most of today's problems are related to the consequences of Progressive Ideologies playing out. Get the schools back from the Religious Progressives and reintroduce basic, practical Traditionalism, and many of our problems vanish overnight. But I suspect the youth of today will double down on lame Boomer Counter Culture and then complain when they have to deal with the consequences and continue to blame older people who have nothing to do with it.
Truly well said. I don't think any one generation will ever know all the answers. It's sheer lunacy expecting your life to be a cakewalk and then blaming older generations when it doesn't turn out that way. If you don't experience the bad, how will you know the good when it comes around?
Gen-z is pathetic. I have so many stories from my life to prove it...just yesterday i was sitting on a step like we all do in the city on sunny days. The cops rolled by and told me the tenant called them to ask them to ask me to politely move to the side!!!! WTF? They looked as confuse as I. So I moved twenty feet to the side. The girl came out 5 minutes later to pick up her doordash in her pyjamas then ran back in like a hermit. It was 3pm on a wednesday. She's afraid of people..many of them are.
Gen X 1971 here . Afraid? Na honestly laughing my arse off at all the stuff i warned people about 30yrs ago and almost pleased i was right. Don't be afraid of these unusual but exciting times ✌🏻❤🇬🇧
Was with him till he laid cancel culture on gen z. Their angry Boomer grandparents invented that. And they don't just complain on tiktok, they make laws to silence anyone they don't like.
1964 here. We have been there and done that,,, We dont scare easy,,,,government tried and did not succeed,,,thats why they moved along to the young uncooked minds.
I'm not pissed. I look at them with amusement, because being adolescents of course they're trying to find value in devaluing the generations before them. That's just part of adolescence and by the time they turn 30 they'll come up with more realism and less idealism. That's what happens to all generations. Gen Z is like all the generations before them from that point of view. They'll find out, life teaches its lessons whatever we believe or do, nobody escapes that.
These kids have no clue what is was like to fight someone for disrespecting your mother. Wasn’t hard to find a fist fight growing up (born in 81) these kids couldn’t tell you where to find the toilet with out a smart phone
1968 here. The only thing that pisses me off is this whole woke pronoun crap this new generation have that expect us to participate in when we never had to deal with any of that all of my life. I'm too old to deal with new humans and houses rules.
@@aotctd I’m not sure, but I know mine came out by itself in that comment. Maybe that’s how they come up with all those. :) some of them sure do soon like it.
Gen X here. Grateful that I was able to have relationships with members of the greatest generation, such good people who had grit. Gen Z, as a whole, are incredibly fragile emotionally. I think that's why they annoy me so much.
Another GenX here (1973) I'm too busy living my life and having a great time to care what younger generations think. I think the most entertaining part about all of this is that GenZ and GenAlpha think we care what they think. We don't. Now, if they rock the cart too much, (ie: stir up the lives we're happily living) then eventually we will get angry and set them straight.
1974 we are the last of a dying breed! We played outside during the summer till street lights came on, school didn't start until after Labor day, had fun on snow days building forts outside, used our imaginations and we had all the good toys for Christmas 🙌
The first time a GenX'r sees a video where Y or Z cant work out what 3x3x3 or cant name two countries or cant tell you who their countries president or pm is then they are dead to us.
You are definitely close to us. A Xennial? You can join our numbers if you like. Most don't want to be a part of our club. But, welcome to the feral generation.
Most clubs didn’t want me before the 2020 broke out hehe 😉 I’m fine just being me and a part of the whole human family. With brats included if they know how to behave a little bit better.
Gen X here. Im not versus anything. Im just appalled at the stupidity only 2 generations down. And I thought we were meant to be the generation exposed to lead! The most pampered generation in All of human history, Gen Z, is crying oppression because every other generation isn't bowing and scraping to worship at their manicured, soft feet. Its pathetic.
I'm an OG! I was born in '65. Raised by early boomers. By that day's standard we were "lucky". Dad who worked & mom who stayed home. Make no mistake about it... we were absolute feral animals!!! I can't count the memories I have that include, "Where were my parents?????"🤔🤣
We Xers are feral more literally than you think. We play with our prey before ending them and eating them for breakfast. So no, we are not really playing with you, we just started the process of your destruction (ideologically speaking).
GenX 1968. I recently offered up some practical solutions to a problem GenZ was having. GenZ response: "You just don't get generational trauma, do you?"
"careful you might just get generational trauma"- that is the nice way a genX person might respond. "Quit whining about generational trauma, here's some real trauma." and then they abandon you at a gas station was the boomer way.
Peace to you from 🇦🇺 you speak the truth. As a 70's baby I can confirm from the other side of the world that this man speaks the truth, and I feel the same way he does. My son watched this, he is in his early 20's and he agrees, he is sick of his generation. He said to me a few years back 'mum I don't think I want to have kids, look at the world I would be bringing them into'. God Bless you and thank you for a moment of sanity.
Bless you and your great kid. Tell him I thought the same but becoming a father changed me for the better and made me a lot more passionate to fight for all of our freedoms.
God needs his army. We need everyone and every soul born and not yet born. He just need to make sure to learn to have his boundaries and self respect. To not fall for dark and lost women like I did, thinking I can save them.
I have been searching for the exact right words to express to the younger generation to explain to them why they need to let some things go and to stop looking for reasons to constantly complain on social media about their predecessors. Finally someone found the right words to convey exactly what truly needs to be said to every new generation that crops up. All any new adult generation is trying to do is their best. We’re not deliberately trying to screw over our children at all. If they could keep that thought in mind and exercise a little gratitude for the hope and the effort we put in to at least trying to make the next generation’s lives just a little bit better, I’d like to believe we’d have a lot more kind hearted generous people in this world instead of people expecting the world to just hand them whatever they want on a silver platter. It honestly makes me wonder how this new generation of adults will react when their own children come of age and start trashing them publicly over things that tbh aren’t that important or could never have been foreseen.
83 here They forget that tollerance ,respect and inclusivety are NOT one way roads You have to give them befor you get them they are offended at dark humor not getting that it is there to make you laugh about the absurdety and sadness of life so you are not angrie or sad and let this shit control you this way They cant understand that it is better to get slaped by a parent who loves you when you didnt learn your lesson Befor making the same mistake with a strager and get hit badly They basicly just learned how to crawl and want to tell us how to walk 😂 They have thier lgbtq++ But we are IDGAF++ as long as you dont hurt anyone They just seek attention We just leave you be as you want to be and dont care until you piss us off And yes it is not all of them There are still a lot of good kids out there and i am sorry you have to deal with them too
ask YT all you want, but thats not gonna change the spiritual war we're in... job is not done yet. stay alert or become victim of your own ignorance... (and i dont mean this in a mean way... just look at the vaxxed people who suddenly die) they know now that sleeping in this situation can get you deleted.
Hubby and I have learned that every generation is raised on societal "truths," and eventually learns that they were lied to a certain amount...or perhaps a certain amount of what they were told WAS true at one point, but not anymore. What worked for one generation, or even two... hundred, won't necessarily work to the success of another . What hubbs and I were taught led to pretty decent success for much of our families. We're both at the youngest end of our families, so we inherited little more than some ineffective advice. "Do these things, and you'll climb that ladder." 😂 We feel like we were fed to a machine. It's not our families that let us down. They were working on the best information they had, when they advised us. The friggin' world underwent massive shifts and changes that made the advice we got almost worthless, so we had to figure it all out ourselves. That said, the expectations of the boomers will be the part that historians will point to as the main problem. They decided they could never grow old, so they refused to retire at traditional retirement age, so X couldn't progress at careers normally. Our medical system got geared to the demands for joint replacements, so Boomers could continue to compete a full decade or more past traditional ages. Now. Everything is geared around keeping the largest generation alive as long as possible, and the smallest generation is expected to pay for it. X will be the first generation to have people, who paid into the system from age 16 NOT have social security available when it's our turn.. previous generations (boomer, silent, and WW2 made all sorts of changes to the system that benefited THEM to the point that THEIR contributions would NEVER be sufficient). Boomers entered the work force a little later than their parents (some A LOT), and paid the same or less than their parents, but will draw for decades longer than their elders). They were the first of the spendy generations, and set the debt on a trajectory that will destroy the country.... perhaps the world. Look for another global depression. Every generation is going to struggle to pay for and overcome the Boomer's expectations for their careers, health, and life expectancy. End of life and long term care for them will consume all they earned and inherited. Life expectancy is decreasing for subsequent generations, and we're going to be expected to work several extra years, because of the societal expectation of continued increases in longevity. There you go... The world spins, people are selfish, and our culture was thrown away, without the creation of something that could meet needs as well as something with 500-1000 years of trial with much slower societal changes.
@@heartfullyhonest I just chalk it up to being too lazy to read or listen to more than 3 words, or too stupid to follow more than 3 words. I have been amazed at how many people I've lost in a conversation after a minute. Lazy or stupid or both pretty much sums up people that can't handle the likes of us.
@@dgeneeknapp3168 yes. There is one of those in the comments section here. Title of video was enough for them to ‘know it all’. The least amusing types to interact with.
The message here seems to be that we are all pitted against each other. The simple fact is that we are all on this earth together and the ONLY reason we are not further along is because we fall prey to this idiotic idea that "someone is better than another". Drs will tell you that pain cannot be compared because everyone feels pain differently. Being manipulated, however, is our own fault. The signs are there, the idea is there, the feeling is there, yet we don't fight it. Because of that, it is solely our fault. It's time to fight back.
As a millenial who been welcomed and called an honorary gen x, I say to gen Z if you ever actually piste gen X of god speed😂 you'll need all the help you can get.
you are so right i spent my youth running around spain/mallorca with my friends in the late 70’s early 80’s kids these days think they’ve been there and done it all well not yet they haven’t baby😂 i’m 61 this year. I’ve never lived a quiet life. No would I want to? Wouldn’t change my life even though I’ve had my ups and downs. I’ve laughed lived loved and hope will again. but get a bit tired of people laying it at my feet for their problems their problems are their problems which they cause themselves like I caused my own problems. peace love and bananas. ❤
This picking fights with older generations is silly. Gen X was told we we're doomed and we had to just make do. We want to be left alone and we will leave you alone. If you want to change the world, do it like how we had to do it. Go out, get a job related to what you want to fix, and fix it there. Don't whine at us that we're bad, we didn't have safe spaces, we had to stand on our own or put up with it. Stop trying to pick fights with people that were not caring a whit about how you choose to live.
@@zikeibradley3472 the picking of this fight is from GenZ for some idiotic reason. Us in GenX have not been the ones crying about why no one is yelling at someone else. We hate everyone equally, as we also care for those we care about whom have won our love and trust. It's funny how that when we were poked and began growling, suddenly everyone is claiming were the ones at fault for it all. Leave us alone and we'll leave you alone. That's all we ask and expect. Even the Boomers, our parents, have more or less learned that miraculously enough.
@@dirkbsilver9260 gen z didn't pick any fight, this started because Eminem made joke about offending gen z in a song, and now gen x is bitching about something that NEVER HAPPENED
@@zikeibradley3472 no there has been a ton of GenZ tiktoks, twitter, Instagram, and UA-cam posts how awful GenX has been. It started because a few nodcocks that wanted to whine about somebody other than boomers or millenials, ti make themselves a name. When told to shut up by everyone they went and said GenX is picking a fight and being mean to them. That is why it started. That is why GenX began growling. We want to be Left alone and were not getting involved in everyone else's squabbles. Get your facts straight.
Gen X can’t be upset their whole thing is they don’t care, everybody ignores their existence and they ignore the existence of anything that isn’t making problems for them personally.
Early Gen X here. I'm not exactly sure, but I think it all started from a guy's video with him saying, "Who let Gen X off the hook. Why aren't we talking shit about them" on Instagram.
Thank you, sir, for pointing this out. Like the old saying goes "United we stand, divided we fall". Don't let people push your triggers/buttons emo /emotions, whatever you guys wanna call it. Take a step back, take a deep breath & see the bigger picture. We all need to own up to our mistakes, whatever they may be, make amends find common ground & move forward as a team. Negative emotions are so easy to trigger & use to manipulate people with. Like the man said. Well said, sir. Thanks for the reminder. Don't let other people manipulate you so easily, guys.
The past few years showed me just how easy it is to spook everyone except GenX.
Hahaha. I know right.
Born in 73 GenX here..we don't care!😂❤
Gen X ♎
Born in 71 and this is kinda true. Didnt spook out during the Covid propaganda. No masks or jabs in my home. We celebrated every holiday and birthday together with our families. What scared me through all of this as well as during 911 was how easy so many people can be frightened enough to relinquish their rights to power hungry tyrants just for the illusion of safety.
@@heidipye3488Nope ❤
LOL! GenX here, don’t care one bit what GenZ thinks of us. It’s part of being GenX.
Most of your and my generation gave 0 fucks until they started cancelling us for simply poking some fun jokes at them. Or even just because we make stuff like music etc. they just forgot that we don’t like to be messed with.
Gen z are just like annoying flies around us.
Well we as GenX should. Do we not realize we're the parents of GenZ. However they are, we only have ourselves to blame. We raised them.
Gen x here fuck em. If they don't like me. They think they know SO much and don't know shit standing as they have their cell phones recording instead of making a difference. I have 0 fucks left in me.
@@novacorps2468schools were different at our age, no social media. The main influences were our parents, friends, siblings, tv or movies. There’s a lot of older boomers who had kids late, it would be interesting to see the age demographic broken down. The last time I looked the newer gen’s were surprisingly high to boomers though
Gen X here and I don't hate anyone. Honestly I don't care enough about most people to hate them. Now having said that I would suggest everyone leave Gen X alone .
Man you are like my doppelgänger or something. Born in ‘71. But I say this all the time. I have a boomer friend that hates everyone and she’s like don’t you hate that person and I’m like I really don’t care enough to spend that kind of energy. I have a handful of people that I love and everyone else, meh 😒
'76. Same.
Yeah, I don't hate anyone either, but if folks wanna get in the dirt to curb their enthusiasm, I am still way spry enough to accommodate. And I have not been to jail since 2017,so yeah.
1971. Nailed it
‘72 and yup! 100%
GenX lived by the mantra of "I'd rather die than give you control."
GenZ is the exact opposite.
They're on the lines of "If you don't control them, then I'll die."
Imagination is great, but reality will beat you down in a heartbeat.
The new gen may figure that out one day.
Hopefully, before they surrender all they have for the imaginary guise of safety.
I bet on imagination bending reality but you got a point too. There is magic and there is delusions. The two don’t work together.
Actually, we Gen X'ers grew up with Boomer parents like this. I'm a do your own thing but don't come for me, or you will find out. It's simple. I respect you, you respect me.
This is why we aren't offended by anything, being offended gives away your emotional power and we aren't about that.😂😂
Head like a hole, man... great memories!!! Yep, and I was in college when that was out. Trent and Charles, lol. Colleges didn't destroy critical thinking skills in place of systematic brainwashing. It was the exact opposite for us. Critical thinking was everything. Question everything and find your own answers through your own experience, research, study, and thought process. Never settle for being a sheep and if what you are fighting for is supported and/or pushed but the government/industries, big tech, and corporations then something was defo wrong.
My folks always told me, "don't get mad, get even". 3 older sisters and 1 younger. I get even.
Gen X here. We live and let people live - we aren’t pissed off unless the bear is foolishly poked by stupid. Play stupid games with us, and we gladly reward with stupid prizes - FAFO.
Well, this was my point. They woke up bears by sending too many 20 year old feminists with pink hair and gay unicorn friends into the woods to hang out with bears. 🐻 So bears came out of the woods. Started shitting in our toilets and complaining about our toxic wives and entitled brats. Fuck it. I think it’s too late to take it back now.
They're learning, "don't start none, won't be none" is real with us Gen Xers.
Only because you don’t try to get it. :)
That's true for the most part, but you gotta admit, sometimes we just get a wild hair up our ass to feed the trolls. The best part is the trolls don't really understand that we are purposely feeding them and they all strut around like they're actually winning.
@@byMidnyt ....🤣🤣🤣🤣. So true ....
Gen X in the US has the largest combat Vet population. I think we all know where it will go if they poke that bear.
Where will it go?
@@sleepwellmychild back to the 80's.
@@sleepwellmychild word to the wise; Gen X has both trust and anger issues; and though we are "War weary", we are not only accustomed to but are also incredibly good at violence of action. The end result off all this is that it would probably serve in everyone's best interest to leave us alone. We don't play well with others.
@@sleepwellmychildFA&FO.
@@mercuryshadow09 what do you mean?
If we fight amongst ourselves, we won’t fight our captors.
Ditto 🙏
@@heartfullyhonest I have to say that it has been eye opening and very telling and REFRESHING that NOT ALL of the youngsters are falling in line with the mainstream bullshit they are being taught! At least not in the south. I've seen quite a few videos of college kids fighting back and standing their ground here in Louisiana and other places. When they push back , the weak woke ones do not know what to do and it is beautiful!
They can push the lies only so long and then it all falls apart.
Right on 🎯. 💗
This comment right here! I'm Gen X, born 1973. I love the younger generations. I love how they've taken their identities into their own hands and put their feet down when defining what "normal" is. I love the changes they continue to make -- changes I was desperate to see in my own youth. Some day soon it will only be the younger generations and honestly I'm here for it.
What I don't love is the idea Millennials and Gen Z sometimes have in mistaking privileges for rights. Freedom is something you never stop fighting for; the Boomers that Be will snatch them away the moment you acquiesce. Gen X blazed some trails, but it's up to the younger generations to maintain them and build on them. As they have been. But understand that the fight is never over with boomers. Any "yes" you get from them should have "for now" attached to it.
The best parenting we got was being ignored and that's the stuff you see us joking about on TikTok etc. What the younger generations don't hear about was what the boomers did when they were paying attention. That's when shit got hard. That's the stuff we don't talk about. Or when we do, we make dark jokes about it. Let us have that. We can get through our day just fine with humor.
What really, really angers me though is when I get lumped in with the boomer generation. We were the first ones they traumatized and we've bent over backwards trying to shield everyone else from them. Now, we're all trying to take care of elderly boomers after all the shit they put us through -- while fighting the temptation to pull the plug or drop them off somewhere in a home. I'm joking. Mostly.
Please don't lump us in with boomers. It's a slap to the face. If you got some lousy Gen X parents I'm truly sorry for that -- but every generation has them. Hell, my boomer parents were junkies who met in a psych ward. I wish I were joking. So I get it. But please, for the love of whatever you may hold holy, don't tell me I'm just like them. I'm not. In fact, them's fighting words. Our three generations can overcome all this nastiness if we point the political gun at our actual enemy.
In order to be pissed off I'd have to actually care about GenWhatever or any of this crap, I'm too damn busy living my life.
We all are. But apparently we are called to put some stuff back in order. ;)
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You offer Us Cookies ?
Every other Gen to me now is GenWhatever 😂
That in itself is part of our problem, nobody cares until it's them or their kid. Some call it survival mode.
Im 1989..i am practically right in the middle of all this.
I prefer to side with Gen X all day every day instead of Gen Zombie.
You are a millennial
jan 81 i am the tail end and the beginning , im just enjoying the shitshow
@fryskomuttens We are actually known as Xennials. Anyone born between 1977-1983 is now known as Xennial. We are on the cusp of both Gen X & Millennial. We are the micro-generation. As a kid I had friends from the late 70s & middle of the 80s. Our experiences were the same.
yea Gen X are smarter i think my upbringing was similar to late gen x just with more technology like video games and vhs .the gap used to seem bigger but the small differences don't matter as much compared to the huge changes in the 2000s and 2010s
Zombie😂😂😂 but yeah, millennials are starting to get it.
'66 GenXer here...we know that divide and conquer is the common weapon of the negative powers that be...we also know that investing in our future self is how we grow as human beings.
You are a boomer you need to do your research anyone born through the 60s is boomers
Nobody cares, even gen x doesn't that's why they say "I don't care" so much because they're not in the businesses of caring unless it's to make money off it.
I'm born 1967...and I never argue with fools, cause they will win every time with experience 😂
Also a 1967 fellow GenX. Represent.
“Division is how you get manipulated” is by far one of the most powerful lessons we all need to learn. Instead of telling ppl how they should feel, we would be much more united if everyone minded their own business. Gen X just wants to live without ppl telling us what to do.
Correct. 👍
We’ve always been that way too.
Well, Charles Manson said it and you see what they did to him.
Yes, some Gen X humor was applied in that sentence.
George Carlin (RIP -- a boomer comedian if you are not aware of him) made this observation in a comedy segment he did about the rich keeping people fighting against each other so they could run to the bank with all of the money. Very wise and quite before his time.
@@uoabigaillevey love George Carlin. His observations were spot on.
1970 Gen X here. Pissed off? No, not pissed off. Not me anyway. More disappointed than anything else. “Older generations are there to teach and the younger to learn”, has always been the common belief. I call B.S. We ALL learn and teach each other. All wars are stupid and actually solve nothing. To include generational wars! It’s time for us all to be more human. That has always been the answer, regardless of generations!
I’m not pissed off either. And I agree with you. Fully.
@@heartfullyhonest Ditto
Time 4 Money to END. Byt Whores NEED Competition to EAT
1968 here, teaching my grandson things that were taught to me by my Depression era grandparents.
Gen X doesn't care enough to be angry.
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Internet wars are not RL.
Gen X grew up outside, in the real world, in real life.
We compartmentalize what's real vs what is not real.
There is no "competition" with Gen X.
Like, we literally don't care
If you inducted us or "drafted"is, we didn't get the memo🤨
And like a subpoena officer, we will ignore the attempts to serve.
-we're so indifferent, bro, consider it forfeit.
-whut ever you need to go away play pretend wars somewhere else.
Gen X gives zero Fvks
Gen X here. Pragmatic as hell. Speaking with a gen Z about a problem that needs to be solving and they start talking about their feelings and how my criticism and feedback on the problem hurts their feelings. The amazing part is, the problems that need to be solved have nothing to do with them personally. I have no problems in my social group. Always with governments and bussiness. Yet they always make it about themselves. Just amazing.
They were raised by narcissistic parents.
@@heartfullyhonestso were many of us, but we knew they were the a-holes.
@@MsAubrey I didn’t know much about it until my life got destroyed by the same dynamic.
@@madjack7777 real men shove those feelings way down strap on a smile and leave the house everyday.
@@16m49x3 says every clown who doesn't have kids at all... Buddy, parents don't control the environment in which kids grow. If you keep saying that, I hope you are not a parent, because you talk like a screw up.
I am Hapa/Hawaiian that grew up hating America because they imprisoned our Queen and took my family's land away. Fast forward. Spent youth protesting US Military bombing my ancestors graves. When i found myself unable to support myself I joined the army because I needed an education and it was free there, no other branch would take a drop out. I am female. Boot camp was coed. I soared through boot camp because I was fit, most of us were. I soared through through AIT and discovered I had a photographic memory. My first assignment was SKorea....where I learned what real oppression was and fear and communist influence and starvation, homelessness in a war stricken frozen over dog farming orphaned half American babies destined to street lives place that being shot dead in the street by police with M16's was not something to question or you will be late for your 12 hour shift and its better not to question the rule of law in a foreign country where its troops were taught to hate and not trust women. Over two years there. Then off to the 24th infantry. When I finally Ets, I was educated, learned in countless life's lessons, appreciated My country, would easily die for it and thought I was ready for life. When I arrived back home in Honolulu, no one was waiting for me, no one cared, i was a traitor. I lived the rest of my life trying not to be like the parent that raised me, I managed it well, kids are good raising their own fine children but as I look at the stupid kids in this country I know my truth, I was them once, not as self centered or disrepectful, but I was young and dumb and hope the young and dumb of today get a rude a waking before its too late, rude awakenings stick better.
Thank you so much for sharing your amazing story. And yes, we all had the rude awakening. It’s hardly ever pretty at all. 🙏❤️
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Thank you for your service. 🫂
Read every word you wrote. Powerful! Thanks for sharing. ❤️
@@lvw7668 thankyou, all we can do, is try to do it better! bless you and yours.
Yep, you are correct, this what they want. To divide and control.
Oldest trick in the book next to using hookers as spies and assassins.
GenX 1969 here. I started working when I was 15. Until I got into my stride in my early 30s, I hated most of my jobs. Instead of bitching about it, I kept showing up for work, and I would show up early and get the job done. Eventually, I worked myself into good positions. I don't have time to listen to GenZ bitch, I am too busy working and suffering, getting old sucks. I was homeless a couple of times, now I own property and take care of myself, by myself. I have a measure of peace in life finally, and I am thankful for it. I am alone, but I am not lonely. I know how to fight for real, but I never look for fights. People should focus on what they have in common, not on what differences divide them, and pissing on people just because you can is crap behavior. Be kind to one another, life is hard.
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favorite quote: "None of us is supposed to compete with each other. We are completing with our versions of ourselves from yesterday".
Thank you 🙏 this is what was the most important part of it. You paid attention, you get my love ❤️
As a GenX that used to run both Track and Cross Country back in my high school days, I was always competing against my own times at prior events. No other runners on the course/track mattered. Only that I bettered myself.
Boomer here, 1962. I actually agree with what he said. For the life of me, I don't remember ever talking against my parents or their generation as a whole; and why it's all our fault, meaning Gen X and Boomers, is beyond me.
And this gentleman is correct; I do not care what you think your pronouns are or what gender you identify with. That is your issue.
Waaaait… is that because you’re a later Boomer? Because the definition of being a Boomer was talking against previous generations. It’s kinda what made them what they were.
@@BeeWhistler Not where I came from. I was raised to be respectful to my elders. I'm going to turn 62 next week, and I honestly cannot remember ever talking about my parents' generation. Kind of hard to do when your parents are part of the Greatest Generation.
I guess I missed or misunderstood when he was talking about Boomers blaming their parents. He did have a bit of an accent, nothing wrong with that.
But honestly, my mom was one of 11 children, I have around 40 or so first cousins, had many friends and I never heard one complain about a generation as a whole.
Sorry I rambled.
Well, I am 1957, every thing was a secret and told to keep secret. Then we learned that secrets are not good for the victims, then the generational dysfunction landed on their lap and so did Autism…and the mess we live thinking this is the best life style and nation on earth…..we are truly evolving dear. The web ruined many in 2 generations, already!
Dude. Your parents were the Greatest Generation. I know, i was raised by them (73) because my Spawn Point abdicated parenthood in favor of a second childhood. Pretty much the only thing to criticize were their sex hangups, alcoholisim, and ignorance of fossil fuel poisoning. They left the Boomers an economic paradise. Ronnie Regan and Yale Steering Committee took off the regulations and drove in onto the rocks because "whoever gets the most toys wins." Dont flutter those lashes at me, your mother raised me too, and i remember being taught a lot of things you Boomers have convieniently forgotten.
@@Exiled.New.Yorker 🤣
I was born in 1981, raised by boomers, and also hung out with Gen X. Gen Z decided to summon Gen X instead of summoning a demon lord; this would not go well. I have popcorn for this showdown; however, I probably will not get to eat much before Gen Z throws in the towel. Also, Gen Z should have elected to summon the demon lord. I'm just saying.
I’m here already. Too late.
Born in 1983 here. I think they would have better luck with the demon lord in actual fact. When Gen x speaks, millennial's listen. Gen x is coined the silent generation for a reason. Things just got real when Gen x uses their voice.
Indeed.
@HalideHelix hail the GenX demon lord
That demon lord belongs to Gen X. We're a generation that bought Oija boards at toy stores and played with them "just to see if they worked". We got that bitch on standby. 😂
I’m an Aussie Post Menopausal GenX 1968 woman…The crap I’ve dealt with has prepared me well for REAL life. The youngsters are the snowflakes…We’re the fvcking Avalanche. 😁👍🏼
@@julzhunt7790 post nothin... you're still rock n roll. " it's better to burn out than fade away".
LOL love your spirit.
Born in late 60's makes me one of the first genx... we are laid back.. we don't give a fffk... we were slackers but never lazy... sex, drugs, and rock n roll defined us. Our demanding parents sharpened our senses. With our never say die attitude , and our attention to detail we should be the last people anyone wants to mess with, because our mantra was we don't get mad ... we get even. Young'uns read stuff and think they know something... we lived it and learned from school of hard knocks. We earned our scars! We raised kids .. we helped and sometimes raise grankids.. all of them still rely on us... try not to piss us off . You really won't like us when we actually get angry. We are survivors.
No, that is Core X
@@aotctd i stand corrected ... thankyou.
I mean, sure… or we’re all a bunch of scarred, damaged people who were thrown into a pit to devour each other while the adults watched and said, “Dunno why that one kid is just letting them eat her alive like that. Probably should step in and stop them. Oh well.”
"Seggs, drugs, and rock" normalizing drug culture, hook up culture, crass anti traditionalist sentiment also destroying the idea of monogamy and marriage WHICH furthered the gender imbalance manifesting a feminized male population and masculine female one...
THANK YOU 👏👏👏👏
@@Saisaiwathan420 and you already crossed the lines. Forget about your scrolls.
While everyone else loses their minds, me and my fellow GenX'ers put our heads down, get the job done, and block out the noise. Once in a great while, we'll grab some popcorn, sit back and watch the madness for cheap entertainment.
Sigma Gen Xer grindset fr fr 🙏🙏🙏
Gen X person here. I try to understand that we were once the free thinkers wanting to inspire and change the world. We lived, fought, loved, and gained experiences. We have seen more change in the world than arguably of any generation. We have changed everything. From the way we exchange ideas, technologies, monies, and the way we travel to the way we fight wars. I understand that we need that passion to continue. So as to literally change the world that we live in. We also need to respect the elders and the learned lessons of the past least we repeat them. We are facing that now in today's climate with the brewing division of the races due to politics. We tried segregation before. We fought to end segregation before. And now this division of generations. More infighting. More drama. More distraction. More uncaring for the nation as a whole. More smoke and mirrors to keep us unfocused, amused, and angry all at the same time. Easier to control and pass laws to hinder the commoners and benefit the elites. The haves and the have nots if you will. All of us have nots are fighting each other while the haves of all colors, races, sexes, and sizes get along happily. Eating the best, wearing the best, drinking the best, laughing at the have not's fighting each other over nothing like dogs in a cage.
That's right and the 1% wants it that way. It's too bad so many are too foolish to see this.
My grandmother always told me that the next war fought on US soil will be a class war. She was right.
The kids who need safe spaces vs the kids who grew up playing with Rambo knives and ninja stars. Good luck with that.
I’m Gen X and I went to a party dressed as Rambo lol.
Yup. I am apparently stronger than 90% of twenty year olds. At twenty I was 100x stronger than I am now.
I remember flinging those cheap ass ninja stars at each other and breaking windows.Ha, I paid for some glass more than once.
Bahahaha and lawn darts ‼️ don’t forget those 🤣🤣🤣🫡
You forgot to mention masters at lawn darts also
Gen Z doesn't even realize that they act just like our Grandfathers; who were angrily trying to force people to think a certain way, or you got kicked out of the family.. cancelled in today's wording. We're not forcing our thoughts, how to do things onto young people, and we don't want you trying to force your way of living, thinking, doing things on us. We have obviously let you be who you think you are, and we have accepted a generation with very different ways of living life. Now accept us, as well...
Hell yes. That’s exactly it!
It's fascinating and amazing to see these kids act just like stupid, Bra Burning Boomers, and at the same time, mock and hate on Boomers. I'm like, You know that you're worse than them, don't you? You know that the youth are gonna hate you and be justified when you're in your 70s and 80s, right? But they don't know. I do, though.
The irony of a whole generation of people that try to make everything about their feelings. Their wants, their desires. Believing themselves to be the most aware and most intelligent. Provoking division under the guise of unity. Learning that their self centered and self righteous stance on their own beliefs is actually what makes them the ultimate narcissistic generation. Projection? I think Gen xers have done a pretty good job at allowing them to flip flop in their own pity pot. Since Gen xers wholeheartedly don't care I guess that makes us the ultimate gatekeepers of cancel culture. So they need to understand exactly all the power that they truly do not hold. Best of luck out there.
Excellent point
Very well said
This man is my people.
I'm a millennial, raised by boomers, raised by depression era parents.
I've always been poor. And as a result, I have a working knowledge of all things.
@@themarlboromandalorian That's really interesting to have that gap between you and your parents. I thought the gap between me and my parents was big because generally Boomers had GenX/Latchkey kids not Mills.My Dad was 30 and my Mom 28 or 29.I would love to see you interact with each other.
I’m 20yrs older than this poster and I approve of this message!
Gen X here. Im happy to have you be an honorary member of Gen X. You only missed it by like 2 years. There is an "in-between" few years called Xennials. I may not speak for all Gen X, but I do speak for me, and Im happy to have you, your mindset, pragmatism, and honesty right here with us. Blessings to ya my friend!
PS - I dont think they'll ever lean to not poke the bear. They do eat tide pods, after all.
Yep, born 1982...
I was still getting up on my own to go to school at morning when I was 6 years old 😅 And returned to empty home on afternoons.
But my 69 born GenX mother left me alarm clocks to time me by at the morning 😅 So I was not "totally on my own" lol 😅
And of course, I walked to school throught the forest for a couple of kilometres 😁
But that was all ok, it was different times back then.
So the shift did not happen by the year..but gradually. Some millenials have traces of the Gen X- common sense 😊
@@SatumainenOlento absolutely! I did the same, and also walked, or biked, to school by myself. I just squeaked in to Gen X by being born in 79. In ways, I'm a Xennial too. So yup! Agree fully with you!
@@MarquisLeary34 what a ridiculous assumption. Your mind taking that well known, long used phrase and going directly to violence, especially THAT violent, is extremely troubling. It would also be wise to stop projecting your own violent thoughts and animus on to others. You should seek some help for that.
He’s not wrong. It’s called staying in your own lane , try it , you might like it .
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@@mattschiavone3383 I'm not even on the interstate ,I'm still cruising around the unpaved no fault roads
@@doug6threescore6 staying in your own lane was more for people watching your vid rather than you directly.
@@mattschiavone3383 and own lane/Right track to in in the woods nowhere near a road... meaning whomever can drive defensively I'm going 4 wheeling
@@mattschiavone3383 and we still use sarcasm?right?
1979 GenXer (aka Xennial), raised by early 50s Boomers.
Yep. We were the forgotten generation. Until some decided that we weren’t shat on enough in our lives.
Working FT from the age of 14 on paper (PT since 8 off the record), paying rent at 16 (and paying for all our own stuff), injured? meh… walk it off or rub some dirt on it… college wasn’t really worth anything (yet) and trades positions were all already filled by our parents.
2008 lost homes, filing for bankruptcy, not welcome in anyone else’s homes to get back on track. Working multiple jobs just to make sure our kids were fed and safe. Going back to school for a degree because your employer says that you can’t move up the ladder without a degree (even though they didn’t have one)… so, now accruing student loan debt in your 30s.
Realizing that you’ll never be able to retire, because no more pensions, there won’t be SS income anymore, and the stock market has taken so many nose-dives that our 401Ks are crap… still have our GenZ kids living at home because the housing market is asinine… but thankful for a decent enough salary to pay the bills.
Oh… and helping our aging Boomer and Silent Gen parents, because they need us yet again.
Yeah, no we don’t care about dumb shit. Sorry. We have our own shit to deal with here.
People don’t seem to realize that Silent Gen and Boomers are in our federal government now and have been as long as I’ve been alive… how about we get some more people that have struggled in the federal government for once? Let’s try some GenX and Millennials for a while.
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I think it's funny these idiots want to fuck around and find out. I will no longer hire any Gen X based on work ethic.
Sadly, the boomers and silent Gen still look at us like we're toddlers even though some of us are closer to retirement than high school...
They're pissed because we don't need the crybaby generations.
Gen X and us Boomers can survive just fine without their issues.
Grow up and realize you can't win by crying about EVERY LITTLE THING!
👍👍👍 a new ‘rude’ haha 🤣
GenX since 1971 here. Since the day we were pushed unwillingly out of our mother's womb, Gen X has had to fight and claw for everything.
As latchkey kids in the 80's, we Gen X kids came home to empty houses not because we wanted to but because Mom and Dad
were off trying to earn a living. Cooking food for yourself and your siblings while trying not to burn down the house
tends to make you grow up quick. In later years, when those of us who could attend college graduated, there was a scarcity of jobs
when the Cold War suddenly ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
All those boomers who were working for defense contractors were now scrambling to find jobs elsewhere.
So, guess who got the fuzzy end of the lollipop? Gen X.
On a side note, many of the Gen Xers who could not find work in the 90's took government jobs not because they were "cool" or
"trendy" but because the government sector was one of the few places were they could find employment.
Throughout the 90's, Gen X was called the "Slacker Generation" and many of us feel that it was an unfair label.
UA-cam Genxer, Dayoffnow, had this comment on why Gen X got the "Slacker" label.
Shout out to Gen-X Rosey for her very insightful video -- ua-cam.com/video/fuqv2sOVI1c/v-deo.html
We were called "slackers" because of the "Great Economic Turnaround" that happened just as the first Gen X-ers were graduating from college and seeking jobs. The economy had been booming - then it suddenly tanked. Many X-ers couldn't find jobs and/or moved back in with their parents. That got us labeled "slackers" by the Boomers. I was shocked to read the continual attacks on our generation in the news media, because most of us held jobs throughout high school and college, paid our own way through college, worked diligently at our jobs, and had great goals for our lives. Then we faced several more major recessions. We lived through "down sizing," "restructuring," and "right-sizing" in the workforce - all of which really just meant you could lose your job at any moment even if you were performing well. At least twice in one decade, I lost my job because my entire department was cut. Gen-X has never been slackers. We have been mislabeled and misunderstood. We learned early on to ignore that, stay under the radar, and keep moving forward.
I agree with Dayoffnow. In the 90's, GenX worked hard (damn hard) to find any job they could get but, unfortunately, the jobs we could find most often were low paying and did not require a college degree. Do a search for "Millennial and Gen Z regretting their college degrees" and you see history repeating itself. ua-cam.com/video/Iw2rwcomE0s/v-deo.html
Side Note: Not all degrees are useless, according to this video -- ua-cam.com/video/V63ELIpfd2g/v-deo.html
But, (and this is my opinion) if you are unable to find a job after completing your degree, try adding more skills to your resume. This is what I did. Sites like Udemy.com and Linda.com are an affordable way to add skills and skills help you pay the bills. :)
Now, back to Gen X and the perpetual sh*t shower that rains on them. For a while, it seemed like Gen X could never catch
an even break. However, Gen X did get some recognition at the start of the new millennium. When the planes hit the twin towers on September 11th, 2001, Gen X first responders were on the scene trying to save lives. But, this momentary recognition was fleeting and
7 years later, Gen X had yet another curve ball thrown at them. A lot of Gen X savings basically evaporated like vape smoke with the financial meltdown of 2008. Then, in 2020, while some of us were looking forward to our kids' graduations, we had to cancel plans and go into lock down mode due to Covid-19.
Side note, I lost a relative and a friend to Covid in 2020.
My daughter, who was entering 9th grade that year, was forced to do online learning and absolutely hated it.
I told my daughter that, like it or not, this was what we have to do in order to survive and minimize the number of Covid deaths. I next informed her, in the most non-patronizing tone that I could muster, that pandemic might someday be a defining moment of her generation. Then, like any bratty 14-year-old child of a Gen Xer who senses BS, she rolled her eyes at me but, in the end, she did as she was told.
And, if things weren't bleak enough already, Gen X has the "largest wealth gap of any generation" which means retirement is going be an Effing nightmare for us. :(
Source: finance.yahoo.com/news/gen-x-largest-wealth-gap-151519560.html
So, we are are basically working until we drop dead. Fun Times.
To sum up, Gen Xers, from the get go, have been ignored, disparaged, crapped on, etc... you get the idea.
Whether it was coming home to an empty house, not getting that ideal job fresh out of college, losing savings or loved ones to a catastrophe or crisis, Gen X always seems to get a raw deal. But, instead of giving up, most Gen Xers have tried to make the best of what they were given.
So, here is my advice to our younger siblings (Millennial, Gen Z, etc): Life is NOT Fair. We, Gen Xers learned that lesson from an early
age. But, you have (3) options in dealing with said sh*t show: (1) Whine and Complain (2) Give Up (3) Keep on Trucking.
Option 1 is what we Gen Xers are good at. Hell, we perfected it. Regarding Option 2, I knew a few Gen Xers who chose this option and "clocked out early" (in other words, they are now dead and buried). I do not recommend option 2. :(
Option 3 is what I tell my 18-year-old daughter who is about to go to college and, personally, I think it is the best option.
I also tell her that when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.
Final Words of Advice:
1 - Stay strong and keep on trucking. Remember that life is a marathon, not a sprint. Take all those lemons that life gives you and make lemonade. Hell, mix in some vodka and make it a "grown-up" lemonade. Whatever you want. You do you. However, do drink responsibly. If it becomes a problem, get help (see Advice Tip #6).
2 - You're smart. To quote Doctor Suess, "You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes". Just make sure you
put both of them to good use.
3 - Keep your skills up to date. Never let the ink dry on your resume.
4 - If you make a mess, clean up after yourself.
5 - Try not to get triggered when someone who loves you gives you heart felt advice. (sarcasm alert: like right now).
6 - If you got a problem, work it out (that's what we did). You have the internet (which is something we didn't have growing up).
Anything you can't figure out, Google it. Don't be afraid to ask for help if you're stuck. If you don't ask, you don't get.
However, understand that we Gen Xers have been crapped on since day one of our existence so we do not "suffer fools gladly" (in other words, we don't have time for Snowflake BS). Hell, we're just trying to get our sh*t together before taking that long dirt nap. :(
Now please stop bothering us. We're tired. We got bills to pay. We love you but we don't have the time nor the energy
to fix your problems. That's your part of the piano.
Oh yes, and about that little feud you're having with the boomers (yes, we were paying attention), please don't involve us. See Final Words of Advice #4, #5 and #6.
Good Luck.
Thank you so much for this wonderful gift. ‘Boomers’ and before. I always looked up to the ones like you are. 🙏
Personally I don’t have a feud with boomers at all. Just my parents 😂
Too much time on your hands?
Behave! That’s a very constructive and serious comment anyone can learn from. And if you don’t, you’re missing the point of my message as a whole. You’re welcome to self reflect and come back again when you did that.
@kenito2050 Wow, gotta copy paste this for myself to read and reread over and over... really a brilliant synopsis and links. Thanks so much!
Being told, "Hate and division is how they control you" hits different in a Slavonic accent.
Haha. Thanks 🙏
I had to watch the video again, I was like I didn't hear an accent? After many years of many mason jars with people I can understand some stuff that would be more of grunting and pointing,but yeah I share a jar of shine with ya,you get the second one,if we run out of gas too far from civilization or the mountain too steep for the fuel pump position,we can use it as gasoline, but I would rather siphon some from somewhere.
But you know he's exactly right too,we had this beat into us from childhood up literally,but we were raised to stay out of the church too,you have friends that might as well be your sibling because they show up in the middle of the night,tell you to leave your cell,throwing you a weapon, you are going, and never talk about it again
Yup
Try a French accent, with a Gauloise and patronizing attitude
Everybody out there saying who they’d rather meet in the woods, man or bear? Gen X is the forest. Good luck! 🤣
@@KatrinaRoseT and the people that came from the Holler,we were in the forest ALOT! picture the smell of pine now close your eyes how many gerbils am I juggling in my mind?if a whompascat was on a train in Nashville and Dr CC did finally get the medicine to me,let's teach some poodles how to fly!
Sorry I meant to say,the people that we acquired the green sticky icky from back then ,were coon hunter's they had flashlight on their head and were chasing the dogs thru the forest,we were poor (sadly Bass strings were high back then too
'72, and I've been there, done that. Im comfortable with who I am. I'm certainly not pissed, I am lmfao.
Us gen exers had our crap together, and we were completely independent by age 8.
These babies, are still waiting for their mommies to wipe their snotty noses, and their shcitty arses.
I think if we give them their bottles, a bit of medication, and a nap, they wouldn't be so cranky.
Haha 😆 very true
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Every gen after the Silent Generation is just a degeneration of the West. Blinded by identity politics like the wokies you hate lol
No hate here.
Gen X knew how to get along. Metal heads would be friends with people who listened to Debbie Gibson.
Zers and Mers are too busy building dividing lines over everything that its an effen maze!
I just spent a week in city jail for a minor infraction. There were a few hundred of us. The only guy to get slapped around a bit was one gen-z who was critical of everyone - yet hid his face behind a mask 'because he's shy'!!! He was described aptly as 'annoying and creepy like a spider'. :)
It's that why you guys had more gang violence, racism and foreign conflicts?
@@IbnRushd-mv3fp Who told you that BS? Gen X is the least racist generation and the 80's and 90's were the most peaceful time in the US's existence.
@@alphanerd7221 yeah a bunch of peaceful serial killers
Drugs are a unifying force, man.
Sadly, our live and let live attitude has run afoul of the modern "obey my ideology or face the consequences" insanity of much of the youngest Millennials and much of Gen Z.
But we are here to create balance again.
It’s the parents who have raised these little entitled sweethearts to be this way.. they have taught them No respect for anyone! And it shows..
True.
So, Gen X. Gen X are their parents. Everyone blames Millenials, but the only Millenials with teens and 20 something kids were the teen parents and the very early 80s born Millenials. Everyone else either had elementary age kids or are child free by choice. We're the ones family members keep pushing to have kids, because half our generation doesn't really want kids. Gen X is complaining about their own kids😂
No. Their kids are biting hands that feed them. Clearly you’re up with that entitled attitude.
Yes and no. The ones who are functional and see through the BS got good instruction at home, but for the most part Gen Z was raised by the broken public school system and toxic social media trappings. Gen Z's parents were both out working to try to keep the mill going and pay off their loans while their kids' lives were entirely scheduled and planned to the hilt in after school programs and camps. As much as you try to keep your kids away from all these bad influences, you can't and still have them interact with the world, so you have to teach them to recognize and counter the BS, and do that somehow without making them so weird that they don't have any friends. Every generation does their best in the environment they were dealt. The most lasting lessons learned are the ones that result from natural consequences. Gen Z will live and learn. But let's just hope our civilization survives long enough to give Gen Alpha their turn at the meat grinder.
Nevertheless, Gen X is, of course, the best generation. ;-)
unfortunately, you're still missing the point
So true. Everyone thinks they know it all when they are young. Nonparents think they know what it takes to parent. Then a few kids and years down the line when life hits them with a ton of bricks they realize that they were talking out of their asses in their youth.
I can confirm this to be true.
Some of us remember what it was like to be a child so we have opinions
Gen X here. No one from our generation has formerly lodged a complaint.😂
Oh well, but somehow there is a lot of noise haha 😆
I think that's The issue the Gen Z have with Gen X. They think that Gen X all act like they were rebels fighting the system but see no evidence of it beyond listening to metal and tuning out, and now the people in the school board meetings banning books and nonsense like that are Karen's from that generation as the boomers slowly die out.
It's not really a generational thing, just older people getting more religious and having more time and power to cause more damage. It'll be Millennials in a decade or so and the alphas will complain just as hard.
You’re too narrow minded to see what happened before you.
The difference between intellect and wisdom is experience.
In other words; every wise person is smart but not every smart person is wise. Theory alone is always wrong and in practice we wouldn’t be able to become more efficient if we didn’t study advances in theory.
'68 Gen X'er here... I survived the terror of growing up in the Cold War, so Gen Farts dont even get on my radar. Carry on, little ones, life will fuck you over before we need to.
The school kids of today have just had the idea that they could kill grandma by breathing on her , the climate is changing with each year that they grow, every move they make will be under the surveillance of technology and they are seeing the slow start of WW3... I suspect the newest generation will become something out of the ordinary...
When you were born Gen X went from 1965 to 1984. The typical 20 years. They changed the dates in the 2000’s.
At the end of the day labels don’t matter. The mindset fits with that era.
the original date was 1961 - 1981 i think
They did change it. I'm born 82. It's stop at 83/84. I grad from high school. 2000 at 17.
I'm Gen X and I still just ignore the other generations just like we were till recently
Correct.
That’s the truth. I heard not too long ago that Gen X got “cancelled”. I couldn’t believe it…we actually won!
Would love to get back to being ignored
Born in 74. I think we see the BS that is being thrown in everyone’s face these days and aren’t afraid to speak our mind and stand our ground. We were definitely raised to figure it on your own so that’s what we do. We made friends easily but wasn’t afraid to knock someone’s teeth out for being stupid. We made plans ahead of time by phone or knocked on a friend’s door to find out what up. If we wanted to go somewhere we jumped on our human powered bikes and went. We entertained ourselves a lot times outside all day.
1978 Gen x here...we don't get mad...we don't care. Didn't care when we suffered, didn't care when we got our first jobs at 14...didn't care when our parents got divorced, didn't care when the Berlin wall fell, when the challenger exploded, didn't give a fuxk when Freddy died of aids or when Kurt blew his brains out...didn't care in 92 when la burned down, didn't care when Oklahoma and Waco and ruby ridge happened...still don't care and still don't give a fuck.
Alternative Culture cared
Also you are a Xennial
Thought Gen x was 1965-1980 whatever, I don't care...not gonna argue that.
Alternative culture was commodified and bought and sold. Sure OG punk and hard-core and alternative culture cared when it was diy and underground but than was bought and sold and put on MTV.
Don't even know why I responded to this to be honest.
I would also add Gen x was raised and taught to know two great things...sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me
And...your rights end at your nose
Wow… I cared.
You spoke a lot of truth here. I especially like the your touching on trying to be a better person than we were yesterday. Personal accountability is key for personal growth. Besides can't move forward if stuck in the past playing the blame game. Well done 😉👍
Thanks 🙏
Gen X and grateful I was born 76. I learnt so much from the older generation and if I'm honest I don't know if I care enough to now begin to pass on a load of life lessons and hacks. If fact if I'm honest I feel so detached from the new global views, its completely opposite to how I was raised. We were hard fast and ready, we got a long or we didn't but it was upfront on honest. We worked hard, played harder and generally did what was ask and found ways to get it done fast and easy as possible.
The world seems so inflexible and serious these days. None of us are getting out of here alive. Be grateful, and work hard to build a life you will enjoy living and be proud of.
We should be sharing everything we have. Whether they receive it or not is not up to us anymore. We did plant the seeds. They must grow their own gardens.
I was born in 74 ,we have done and seen more by the time high school was out than these kids will ever know or do
And they have a ton more information.
Like what? experience drugs and alcohol, unprotected sex and music festivals?
Every previous generation has problems with the successor generation. I refuse to trash my successors, I prefer to spend my energy fighting the tyrants who control us so our future generations can live free.
Precisely!
So, no shopping on amazon then
I am a gen zer
But I try to understand these videos as objectively as I can
Honestly, I think you actually are one of the best people out there trying to advice us
And you mentioned that plenty of us are smart, thank you, but we still acknowledge that we still have light centuries to know what life is, and we are certainly not the smartest.....
I liked this video, so please, keep making more videos, and keep advicing the idiots of our generation...
You gained my respect
And you, young padawan, have definitely deserved my respect. We all learn from each other. Ask my kid, he is my biggest teacher. :) They all are.
I'm really glad this video found you, and that you found it so welcome for yourself. Made my day! I hope you enjoy the rest of them too.
Where was this attitude in the video, why highlight the negative with no positive. I know it's hard to find right now but you can't tear someone or a whole generation down and expect them to take it as anything other than an insult. We need to instill wisdom, not post something that can be perceived as an attack or insult. Trust me I agree, I couldn't yell at my subordinates in the military without going to sensitivity training. But we need to show them and teach them about self worth, discipline, self determination motivation manners all of that.
Clearly you have a very great sense of sarcasm and what was really the heartfelt message. Either way, I’ve responded to you in your own thread. There’s no need to enforce your own opinionated points across the board.
You can come to discord and try to articulate and elaborate yourself without going into character and personal attacks. And I will listen if you can show enough self regulation to understand the difference between who I really am in real life. And if you cared to check out more of your content, I’m certain that it would have given you a lot to see about yourself in the end.
On top of that, I’ve intentionally linked two videos at the end of the clip, which are easy to find anyway. I understand really well what grabs attention and why. You have to ask yourself then why you get triggered and check out who is the person posting content, what else they post and say. And then maybe you can step out of the self created bubble called perception, and gain a perspective from a point of view you may not agree with but it might still enlighten you.
The biggest hypocrisy is to assume you know a person from a few minutes clip when all it takes is a few more clicks to see what else is there. Superficial remarks and criticism is the first level of immature behavior regardless of what you’re trying to get across.
@@heartfullyhonest I don't care who you are, if you're trying to make a point make a point clearly. Why do I have to know a person to listen to their points? Is it required to understand the person? If that's the case we need a serious rethink of elections across the board. Or do you know everyone you vote for personally? You know in the Navy we had a saying, perception is reality. I'm also really sorry for the grammar, but that's not nit picky by you right? Oh keyboard warrior right right...are you out there in person doing things organizing event raising awareness for the division which goes beyond generations? Or are you just making videos replying to comments? Does making videos exempt you from the keyboard warrior label? And what about my content, I'm not a content creator. I'm still stuck on the title, don't know how that's supposed to be positive, when this was supposed to be a heart felt message? Ok. We'll agree to disagree.
Xenninal here 1982. I related more with gen x. I don't hate Gen z. I'm just tired of their 2 year old toddlers' cognitive function. They need to grow up.
Ditto
As a genX I can confirm that I don't care about any of this
Yeah, what happened again? does someone need attention?
@@arsenelupiniii8040 oh are we commenting
1968 here. I lived through a time where my dad a psychiatrist was able to beat, not spank, but beat the hell outta me and my brother! We went to police, they took pictures and they took us back home! What he did would land him in prison today! At least it was us and not all my younger brothers and sisters!
Amen Brother, amen.
1972 GenX here. So glad my Gen Z children aren’t like this. They’re more like GenX or Millennial’s. Soooo grateful and so blessed!!! 🙏🥰
85 here, I guess I am a millennial. But I grew up with a stereo tower, a gold velour couch, and a TV with dials, so I don’t know. I have to admit I am pissed off at the generations before me because I trusted that adults were always going to take care of us and protect us from bad guys. But now I realize that they didn’t actually care if I truly had freedom, they just wanted to make sure I would behave and not embarrass them - and all the while they declined to investigate the corrupt adults in their midst. so my husband and I and our generation are in a massive hole trying to get out to give our children back some of the freedoms that we lost - the freedom to bike 5 miles to somewhere without fear of being abducted or having child services called. The freedom to start and run a small business without needing a lawyer and an accountant to keep the government off our backs. The freedom to buy food without being afraid that it’s going to slowly poisonous to death - so many of us are becoming homesteaders so that we can know it’s in our food. The freedom to truly speak our minds and challenge politicians without fear of being arrested or have our children taken away. These are legit problems, so it’s hard to hear older generation say “we fought for your freedoms“ - I I don’t think that’s true. I think they fought for the Oligarchy. I think they fought for the petrodollar. I think they were lied to and so I don’t blame them for that, but i’m very disappointed that they didn’t turn around and riot against the machine when they realize they had been played. We’re supposed to look up to them. I’m looking for the next George Washington, for the next Samuel Adams.
They tried... I don't know if you remember the 'Tea Party' under Obama, but they were Mocked by the media and dismissed by the mainstream. Funny enough, it was Millennials who came out in full force for Obama, and this was around the start of the real divide and conquer that we see today. Financial crisis' come and go like clockwork, but today's problems can be directly tied to the shenanigans of the Progressives and their policies. And who votes for that...? Mostly younger people. So, to put the blame on older generations is misguided. Otherwise, we would have seen this type of Fallout a long time ago. Most of today's problems are related to the consequences of Progressive Ideologies playing out. Get the schools back from the Religious Progressives and reintroduce basic, practical Traditionalism, and many of our problems vanish overnight. But I suspect the youth of today will double down on lame Boomer Counter Culture and then complain when they have to deal with the consequences and continue to blame older people who have nothing to do with it.
Truly well said. I don't think any one generation will ever know all the answers. It's sheer lunacy expecting your life to be a cakewalk and then blaming older generations when it doesn't turn out that way. If you don't experience the bad, how will you know the good when it comes around?
Gen-z is pathetic. I have so many stories from my life to prove it...just yesterday i was sitting on a step like we all do in the city on sunny days. The cops rolled by and told me the tenant called them to ask them to ask me to politely move to the side!!!! WTF? They looked as confuse as I. So I moved twenty feet to the side. The girl came out 5 minutes later to pick up her doordash in her pyjamas then ran back in like a hermit. It was 3pm on a wednesday. She's afraid of people..many of them are.
Gen X 1971 here . Afraid? Na honestly laughing my arse off at all the stuff i warned people about 30yrs ago and almost pleased i was right. Don't be afraid of these unusual but exciting times ✌🏻❤🇬🇧
Same here mate! Cheers to us foreseers 🍻
Was with him till he laid cancel culture on gen z. Their angry Boomer grandparents invented that. And they don't just complain on tiktok, they make laws to silence anyone they don't like.
Yeah… we’re stuck in the middle yet again though.
Please do watch the follow up video on it. This one was very sarcastic on top of being real.
And cancel culture is a generation zombie issue. It’s not what age but what mentality stage are they living at.
I think the kids are just overcorrecting a serious issue. I don't think refusing to accept racism or homophobia is bad. They'll even out. I hope.
Well, that’s what I’m also saying and trying to contribute towards. Leveling out and connecting the gaps.
1964 here.
We have been there and done that,,,
We dont scare easy,,,,government tried and did not succeed,,,thats why they moved along to the young uncooked minds.
I'm not pissed. I look at them with amusement, because being adolescents of course they're trying to find value in devaluing the generations before them. That's just part of adolescence and by the time they turn 30 they'll come up with more realism and less idealism. That's what happens to all generations. Gen Z is like all the generations before them from that point of view.
They'll find out, life teaches its lessons whatever we believe or do, nobody escapes that.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not taking it all seriously either. It would be nuts to do that.
I agree 100% Actions speak louder than words. Period!
These kids have no clue what is was like to fight someone for disrespecting your mother. Wasn’t hard to find a fist fight growing up (born in 81) these kids couldn’t tell you where to find the toilet with out a smart phone
what the fuck are you on about "without a smartphone" we arent retarded and we dont need our phones 24/7 vro..
1968 here. The only thing that pisses me off is this whole woke pronoun crap this new generation have that expect us to participate in when we never had to deal with any of that all of my life. I'm too old to deal with new humans and houses rules.
I think we all agree with that here. Be what you want but don’t tell me to call you a cat or your fartness. I see what I see.
@@heartfullyhonest fartness ?
are they labelling themselves as farts now ?
i mean, their, whatever, pronouns
@@aotctd I’m not sure, but I know mine came out by itself in that comment. Maybe that’s how they come up with all those. :) some of them sure do soon like it.
bro you know pronouns have existed for like a extremely long time.. the first recorded use was in the 14th century in a french poem...
Gen X here. Grateful that I was able to have relationships with members of the greatest generation, such good people who had grit. Gen Z, as a whole, are incredibly fragile emotionally. I think that's why they annoy me so much.
Born '68.
Im not pee'd off at all.
That would require me giving a sh1t about them in the first place.
Well, we didn’t until now. :) they poked a lion.
Another GenX here (1973) I'm too busy living my life and having a great time to care what younger generations think. I think the most entertaining part about all of this is that GenZ and GenAlpha think we care what they think. We don't. Now, if they rock the cart too much, (ie: stir up the lives we're happily living) then eventually we will get angry and set them straight.
1974 we are the last of a dying breed! We played outside during the summer till street lights came on, school didn't start until after Labor day, had fun on snow days building forts outside, used our imaginations and we had all the good toys for Christmas 🙌
The first time a GenX'r sees a video where Y or Z cant work out what 3x3x3 or cant name two countries or cant tell you who their countries president or pm is then they are dead to us.
Well said!! Especially about how everyone needs to focus on themselves striving to be better each day. The woke BS needs to stop.
❤️🙏
You are definitely close to us. A Xennial? You can join our numbers if you like. Most don't want to be a part of our club. But, welcome to the feral generation.
Most clubs didn’t want me before the 2020 broke out hehe 😉 I’m fine just being me and a part of the whole human family. With brats included if they know how to behave a little bit better.
"Don't Ask For Shit You Can't Handle". Exactly! 💯✌🏿
Well said, Sir!!!! You speak truth and common sense.
Gen X here. Im not versus anything. Im just appalled at the stupidity only 2 generations down. And I thought we were meant to be the generation exposed to lead!
The most pampered generation in All of human history, Gen Z, is crying oppression because every other generation isn't bowing and scraping to worship at their manicured, soft feet. Its pathetic.
Yup
I'm an OG! I was born in '65. Raised by early boomers. By that day's standard we were "lucky". Dad who worked & mom who stayed home. Make no mistake about it... we were absolute feral animals!!! I can't count the memories I have that include, "Where were my parents?????"🤔🤣
We Xers are feral more literally than you think. We play with our prey before ending them and eating them for breakfast.
So no, we are not really playing with you, we just started the process of your destruction (ideologically speaking).
I have my coffee… we needed this! Sending love to every generation on EARTH 🌍 ❤
Thank you 🙏
@@heartfullyhonest ❤️
Gen X here; we’re not pissed off. We simply do not care. Cross us at your own peril.
Gen X is tough as it gets. I am also a 1982 baby. I feel everything you're saying and gotta say hell yes you got shit straight.
Haha. Thanks 🙏
How can we get upset by a bunch of trophy children..we simply don’t give two Fs
Very true. It’s very entertaining though and on the good side. We’re all talking together now. 😊
I swear to God bro I don’t give 2 Fs…. I swear bro I don’t even give 1 F fr fr. There’s actually no Fs give bro trust bro fr 😎😎😎
@@andrewternet8370 Are you a Zoomer ?
@@aotctd Nah brah I’m Gen X on God brah fr 😎😎😎 fuck them Zoomers no cap 🧢
You already gave more fucks here than you said you would. Haha 🤣 we got you mate!
GenX 1968. I recently offered up some practical solutions to a problem GenZ was having. GenZ response: "You just don't get generational trauma, do you?"
🤦🏾♀️
"careful you might just get generational trauma"- that is the nice way a genX person might respond.
"Quit whining about generational trauma, here's some real trauma." and then they abandon you at a gas station was the boomer way.
@@disklamer kinda harsh leaving someone at a gas station.. thats a crime..
@@frogert158 In the 70s they just called that "Parenting".
@@disklamer bit fucked up don't you think
Peace to you from 🇦🇺 you speak the truth. As a 70's baby I can confirm from the other side of the world that this man speaks the truth, and I feel the same way he does. My son watched this, he is in his early 20's and he agrees, he is sick of his generation. He said to me a few years back 'mum I don't think I want to have kids, look at the world I would be bringing them into'. God Bless you and thank you for a moment of sanity.
Bless you and your great kid. Tell him I thought the same but becoming a father changed me for the better and made me a lot more passionate to fight for all of our freedoms.
God needs his army. We need everyone and every soul born and not yet born. He just need to make sure to learn to have his boundaries and self respect. To not fall for dark and lost women like I did, thinking I can save them.
So grateful my kids have taken our lead as parents and aren't being brainwashed. Raised em old school.
Bravo! 👏
I have been searching for the exact right words to express to the younger generation to explain to them why they need to let some things go and to stop looking for reasons to constantly complain on social media about their predecessors. Finally someone found the right words to convey exactly what truly needs to be said to every new generation that crops up. All any new adult generation is trying to do is their best. We’re not deliberately trying to screw over our children at all. If they could keep that thought in mind and exercise a little gratitude for the hope and the effort we put in to at least trying to make the next generation’s lives just a little bit better, I’d like to believe we’d have a lot more kind hearted generous people in this world instead of people expecting the world to just hand them whatever they want on a silver platter. It honestly makes me wonder how this new generation of adults will react when their own children come of age and start trashing them publicly over things that tbh aren’t that important or could never have been foreseen.
Let’s give them some time. Many will come around. :) I’m glad I could help.
83 here
They forget that tollerance ,respect and inclusivety are NOT one way roads
You have to give them befor you get them
they are offended at dark humor not getting that it is there to make you laugh about the absurdety and sadness of life so you are not angrie or sad and let this shit control you this way
They cant understand that it is better to get slaped by a parent who loves you when you didnt learn your lesson
Befor making the same mistake with a strager and get hit badly
They basicly just learned how to crawl and want to tell us how to walk 😂
They have thier lgbtq++
But we are IDGAF++ as long as you dont hurt anyone
They just seek attention
We just leave you be as you want to be and dont care until you piss us off
And yes it is not all of them
There are still a lot of good kids out there and i am sorry you have to deal with them too
Well said...and on this note, I'm going to tell UA-cam to stop recommending me all these "Us vs Them" videos that are out there. Hope it works!
Amazing! 🤩
ask YT all you want, but thats not gonna change the spiritual war we're in... job is not done yet. stay alert or become victim of your own ignorance... (and i dont mean this in a mean way... just look at the vaxxed people who suddenly die) they know now that sleeping in this situation can get you deleted.
1968. Grateful to be Gen X. A very special generation to be sure!
Such truth spoken, well done sir!
Hubby and I have learned that every generation is raised on societal "truths," and eventually learns that they were lied to a certain amount...or perhaps a certain amount of what they were told WAS true at one point, but not anymore. What worked for one generation, or even two... hundred, won't necessarily work to the success of another . What hubbs and I were taught led to pretty decent success for much of our families. We're both at the youngest end of our families, so we inherited little more than some ineffective advice. "Do these things, and you'll climb that ladder." 😂 We feel like we were fed to a machine. It's not our families that let us down. They were working on the best information they had, when they advised us. The friggin' world underwent massive shifts and changes that made the advice we got almost worthless, so we had to figure it all out ourselves. That said, the expectations of the boomers will be the part that historians will point to as the main problem. They decided they could never grow old, so they refused to retire at traditional retirement age, so X couldn't progress at careers normally. Our medical system got geared to the demands for joint replacements, so Boomers could continue to compete a full decade or more past traditional ages. Now. Everything is geared around keeping the largest generation alive as long as possible, and the smallest generation is expected to pay for it. X will be the first generation to have people, who paid into the system from age 16 NOT have social security available when it's our turn.. previous generations (boomer, silent, and WW2 made all sorts of changes to the system that benefited THEM to the point that THEIR contributions would NEVER be sufficient). Boomers entered the work force a little later than their parents (some A LOT), and paid the same or less than their parents, but will draw for decades longer than their elders). They were the first of the spendy generations, and set the debt on a trajectory that will destroy the country.... perhaps the world. Look for another global depression. Every generation is going to struggle to pay for and overcome the Boomer's expectations for their careers, health, and life expectancy. End of life and long term care for them will consume all they earned and inherited. Life expectancy is decreasing for subsequent generations, and we're going to be expected to work several extra years, because of the societal expectation of continued increases in longevity. There you go... The world spins, people are selfish, and our culture was thrown away, without the creation of something that could meet needs as well as something with 500-1000 years of trial with much slower societal changes.
Bravo 🙌
@@heartfullyhonest people think I say/type too much 😏
@@dgeneeknapp3168 lol 😂 they don’t want to meet me then. And here I am trying to be focused a lot and on point. Let me loose and it’s over haha 🤣
@@heartfullyhonest I just chalk it up to being too lazy to read or listen to more than 3 words, or too stupid to follow more than 3 words. I have been amazed at how many people I've lost in a conversation after a minute. Lazy or stupid or both pretty much sums up people that can't handle the likes of us.
@@dgeneeknapp3168 yes. There is one of those in the comments section here. Title of video was enough for them to ‘know it all’. The least amusing types to interact with.
The message here seems to be that we are all pitted against each other. The simple fact is that we are all on this earth together and the ONLY reason we are not further along is because we fall prey to this idiotic idea that "someone is better than another". Drs will tell you that pain cannot be compared because everyone feels pain differently. Being manipulated, however, is our own fault. The signs are there, the idea is there, the feeling is there, yet we don't fight it. Because of that, it is solely our fault. It's time to fight back.
Bravo!!
As a millenial who been welcomed and called an honorary gen x, I say to gen Z if you ever actually piste gen X of god speed😂 you'll need all the help you can get.
Hahaha. Right. We tried to help them and warn them. 😂
skibidi toilet 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑
you are so right i spent my youth running around spain/mallorca with my friends in the late 70’s early 80’s kids these days think they’ve been there and done it all well not yet they haven’t baby😂 i’m 61 this year. I’ve never lived a quiet life. No would I want to? Wouldn’t change my life even though I’ve had my ups and downs. I’ve laughed lived loved and hope will again. but get a bit tired of people laying it at my feet for their problems their problems are their problems which they cause themselves like I caused my own problems. peace love and bananas. ❤
"Division leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to fear.
Fear leads to suffering"
-Yoda (probably)
Definitely.
This picking fights with older generations is silly. Gen X was told we we're doomed and we had to just make do. We want to be left alone and we will leave you alone. If you want to change the world, do it like how we had to do it. Go out, get a job related to what you want to fix, and fix it there. Don't whine at us that we're bad, we didn't have safe spaces, we had to stand on our own or put up with it. Stop trying to pick fights with people that were not caring a whit about how you choose to live.
Picking fights with younger generation is even sillier. Its not our fault gen x is famous for nobody caring about them
@@zikeibradley3472 the picking of this fight is from GenZ for some idiotic reason. Us in GenX have not been the ones crying about why no one is yelling at someone else. We hate everyone equally, as we also care for those we care about whom have won our love and trust. It's funny how that when we were poked and began growling, suddenly everyone is claiming were the ones at fault for it all.
Leave us alone and we'll leave you alone. That's all we ask and expect. Even the Boomers, our parents, have more or less learned that miraculously enough.
@@dirkbsilver9260 gen z didn't pick any fight, this started because Eminem made joke about offending gen z in a song, and now gen x is bitching about something that NEVER HAPPENED
@@zikeibradley3472 no there has been a ton of GenZ tiktoks, twitter, Instagram, and UA-cam posts how awful GenX has been. It started because a few nodcocks that wanted to whine about somebody other than boomers or millenials, ti make themselves a name. When told to shut up by everyone they went and said GenX is picking a fight and being mean to them. That is why it started. That is why GenX began growling. We want to be Left alone and were not getting involved in everyone else's squabbles. Get your facts straight.
boomer here (1959) we got your backs ...
Gen X can’t be upset their whole thing is they don’t care, everybody ignores their existence and they ignore the existence of anything that isn’t making problems for them personally.
Well that was the case until recently. So again, if GenX got loud. Someone really talked too much. I’m still trying to find the source(s) of that.
Early Gen X here. I'm not exactly sure, but I think it all started from a guy's video with him saying, "Who let Gen X off the hook. Why aren't we talking shit about them" on Instagram.
I think there are many of sources alike tbh. I’ve seen more than a few. Cancel Metallica was the most hilarious one so far.
Thank you, sir, for pointing this out. Like the old saying goes "United we stand, divided we fall". Don't let people push your triggers/buttons emo /emotions, whatever you guys wanna call it. Take a step back, take a deep breath & see the bigger picture. We all need to own up to our mistakes, whatever they may be, make amends find common ground & move forward as a team. Negative emotions are so easy to trigger & use to manipulate people with. Like the man said. Well said, sir. Thanks for the reminder. Don't let other people manipulate you so easily, guys.
Oh, late GenX by the way. Made the cutoff by a couple months 😜 ✌🏻💗
Thank you Jennifer!