Millennial generation reaches age 40 plus

[Caduceus]

The oldest members of the Millennial generation (born between 1981 and 1996) are now in their early 40s.
Millennials have a pretty bad rep, so I'm wondering if age made them wiser and more humble, or are they just the same ?
Here's 2 short comedy videos detailing the younger millennial stereotypes.

 

[Thomas More]

Baby boomers were born from 1946-1964. That's 19 years.

Gen X were born from 1965-1980. That's only 16 years. Sad!

Millennials were born from 1981-1996. That's only 16 years again. Sad!

Gen Z were born from 1997-2012. Only 16 years. Sad!

I'm not sure what generation comes after Z. For all I know, that generation is already over too.

Baby boomers for the win!

 

[Gaboyski]

The oldest members of the Millennial generation (born between 1981 and 1996) are now in their early 40s.
Millennials have a pretty bad rep, so I'm wondering if age made them wiser and more humble, or are they just the same ?
Here's 2 short comedy videos detailing the younger millennial stereotypes.

It's only just 1981, 82 and 83 who are/will be in their 40s this year. Two-thirds of the Millennial generation still occupy the 30s. And as someone born in 1996 myself, I'm right in the boundary between Gen Y and Gen Z, hardly a grumpy middle-aged individual.

Baby boomers were born from 1946-1964. That's 19 years.

Gen X were born from 1965-1980. That's only 16 years. Sad!

Millennials were born from 1981-1996. That's only 16 years again. Sad!

Gen Z were born from 1997-2012. Only 16 years. Sad!

I'm not sure what generation comes after Z. For all I know, that generation is already over too.

Baby boomers for the win!

That's hardly a victory for the generation that started the downhill path of Western society, grandpa

 

[JCSteel]

I'm late Gen X. My parents are boomers. They were of a generation that didn't instill some of the good values that their generation took for granted. A lot of Gen X and the following generations, growing up in secular household and culture, lacked the moral framework that could have helped us navigate life and restrain some of our prevailing vices. We had too much freedom. We had to learn through the school of hard knocks.

 

[homersheineken]

Baby boomers were born from 1946-1964. That's 19 years.

Gen X were born from 1965-1980. That's only 16 years. Sad!

Millennials were born from 1981-1996. That's only 16 years again. Sad!

Gen Z were born from 1997-2012. Only 16 years. Sad!

I'm not sure what generation comes after Z. For all I know, that generation is already over too.

Baby boomers for the win!

 

[HymnsToOurLady]

I'm a late Millennial ('93). I have more in common with zoomers than my generational group. Well, more in common with the ones that aren't trannies or sissified wimps. It's sad what we've become.

 

[Batman_]

I'm a late Millennial ('93). I have more in common with zoomers than my generational group. Well, more in common with the ones that aren't trannies or sissified wimps. It's sad what we've become.

I'm a bit older and I still agree, while all my friends are my age, I generally feel ostracized from most millenials. The most common thing I see in them is nihilism, self-hatred, and comformity/lack of originality, and some hints of boomer programming here and there. They're basically NPCs.

I really don't think those parody videos capture the millenial generation at all.

 

[Pete345]

I'm not sure what generation comes after Z.

After Gen Z comes Generation Alpha. And I assume after that it will be Beta (get the jokes started). Personally, I'm early GenX. My parents were not Boomers, but rather The Silent Generation. Stoic, great providers, strong moral backbones. Any other old guys in the house?

 

[rainy]

I'm late Gen X. My parents are boomers. They were of a generation that didn't instill some of the good values that their generation took for granted. A lot of Gen X and the following generations, growing up in secular household and culture, lacked the moral framework that could have helped us navigate life and restrain some of our prevailing vices. We had too much freedom. We had to learn through the school of hard knocks.

I'm a millennial.

I feel our generation was raised for a world which doesn't exist. I see a lot of confusion amongst my peers.

The world has always changed from generation to generation but we were raised without technology for the most part but entered the workforce into a world of technology, never mind all the cultural and political changes. And the society now prioritizes is completely different than we were taught.

And to top it off, work hard and go to school, get good grades was supposed to lead to having a decent house, family and happiness by 27/28. Like our boomer parents. Not the world we're in!

None of that however excuses some of the shortcomings of us 80's and 90's kids.

 

[Gimlet]

I am Gen X. (Same age as Tucker Carlson, so I get what he has been saying lately.)

Millennials turning 40 got ripped off. Their parent are young boomers who still say "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" which was true of that generation. We Gen X aunts and uncles have nothing to say because they (we) were raised on Nietzsche-inspired 90s movie in which nothing matters, and it was cool to believe life is simply a cesspool. Meanwhile, our parents were the older boomers who got divorced because mom wanted to "find herself". We had to figure it out, but it was still cheap to do so.

Millennials were told to go to college and take out debt at all costs, it would pay off. But they were 17-18 when they made the choice, and by then the degrees were already flooded, except for hard ones like STEM. Gen X, I paid $1500 per semester for a liberal arts degree. (And actually, I dropped out.) I am lucky.

Don't blame your younger boomer parents though, millennials. You were brainwashed into thinking they were dumb and you need to overcome your simple background. Don't believe me? Name me a few movies or tv shows which featured people your parents time period who were not stupid, embarrassing, and simple for living in a 3 bedroom ranch that they owned. They got brainwashed too and wanted you to go to college to overcome their "inferior" lifestyle... which now you would love to have.

 

[RedLagoon]

What a strange OP. "Millennials have a pretty bad rep" yeah by the boomers who have the worst rep in the history of the universe by all generations before and after them.

The older millenials (the ones turning 40 now) had it rough I'll tell ya. Barely any of them are married with children while a lot of younger millenials (at least in my sphere) are having children but are jaded.

What they all have in common is boomer parents though.

 

[God's lonely asperger]

Baby boomers were born from 1946-1964. That's 19 years.

Gen X were born from 1965-1980. That's only 16 years. Sad!

Millennials were born from 1981-1996. That's only 16 years again. Sad!

Gen Z were born from 1997-2012. Only 16 years. Sad!

I'm not sure what generation comes after Z. For all I know, that generation is already over too.

Baby boomers for the win!

All of these seem to have ruined society in their own way. Boomers caused women's rights and other atrocities, I'm not even sure what gen X did since they're always bundled in with boomers, millennials created the most disgusting media possible (social media and especially Twitter, secular entertainment, pointless dull music and shows, etc.), and gen Z seem to be following the footsteps of millennials but on steroids and female hormones.
I'm gen Z by the way.

 

[Hermetic Seal]

As I touched on in the Generation Y thread, the 1980-1990 cohort were only retroactively dumped in the Millennial bucket, and actually constitute Gen Y, which is really quite different in experiences and values for Millennials. A key aspect to this is that Gen Y still had a childhood before the Internet and computer ubiquity. Millennials have been connected their whole lives.

9/11 was a touchstone event for Gen Y, who were in their teens, but Millennial kids were still in elementary school.

So in other words, Gen Y - the youngest members being in their mid-30s - are the ones in their 40s now and Millennials are a couple years out. In my reckoning 1990-1995 is a bit of a transition period where some display more Millennial tendencies, some more Gen Y (especially dependent on whether you were the older or younger sibling), but 1995-2000 is peak Millennial.

Gen Y tends toward extreme myopia and nostalgia overdosing, obsession with nerd franchises and collecting useless junk. Millennials hate the past and are married to a Year Zero mentality and extreme susceptibility to progressive cultural agenda nonsense.

 

[Going strong]

That's hardly a victory for the generation that started the downhill path of Western society

The generation that started the downhill path of Western society, are those who were in charge during the late 60s, when wokeness emerged and nobody crushed it when it was still feasible. So, logically, people around 40/50 years of age in say 1968, meaning people born around 1920.

So, men born around 1920, especially White men, are the ones who started the downhill path of Western society. It matters little after all that some were war heroes. They still started the downhill path, in spite of their personal qualities. They were misguided, blinded, conned, even the WW2 war heroes.

In all fairness, most Western White men born afterwards were and are just as bad, with each generation containing more leftists and gays. Nowadays, the number of soy Western men, devoid of most traditional qualities, is probably at 60% minimum.

Of course, there were and are other people in the shadows orchestrating all this, have been orchestrating and financing all this decadency for decades...

There's some pushback occasionally, thankfully. The election of Reagan, then D. Trump, the Canadian Truckers, the Yellow Vests, the Brexit... from time to time, Western men wake up a bit, but they're too soft and polite, the crooked Establishment crushes them every time, whatever generation they're from. In any case, personally I absolutely hope and pray for Divine intervention.

 

[Caduceus]

I really don't think those parody videos capture the millenial generation at all.

No worries.
Post some videos that you think are more representative of how millenials really are.

 

[Caduceus]

As I touched on in the Generation Y thread, the 1980-1990 cohort were only retroactively dumped in the Millennial bucket, and actually constitute Gen Y, which is really quite different in experiences and values for Millennials. A key aspect to this is that Gen Y still had a childhood before the Internet and computer ubiquity. Millennials have been connected their whole lives.

9/11 was a touchstone event for Gen Y, who were in their teens, but Millennial kids were still in elementary school.

So in other words, Gen Y - the youngest members being in their mid-30s - are the ones in their 40s now and Millennials are a couple years out. In my reckoning 1990-1995 is a bit of a transition period where some display more Millennial tendencies, some more Gen Y (especially dependent on whether you were the older or younger sibling), but 1995-2000 is peak Millennial.

Gen Y tends toward extreme myopia and nostalgia overdosing, obsession with nerd franchises and collecting useless junk. Millennials hate the past and are married to a Year Zero mentality and extreme susceptibility to progressive cultural agenda nonsense.

This is the micro/crossover generation known as Xennials.

Xennials - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

People born at the very start or very end of every generational group will always have some characteristics of the generation before or after them.

However, I do agree that those born before circa 1990 were the last people to experience a childhood without mobile phones, and without the internet, which is very significant. Those who still got to live in that analog world will never forget it.



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[ed pluribus unum]

After Gen Z comes Generation Alpha. And I assume after that it will be Beta (get the jokes started). Personally, I'm early GenX. My parents were not Boomers, but rather The Silent Generation. Stoic, great providers, strong moral backbones. Any other old guys in the house?

Right here, early X.

I find myself having some sympathy for the young 'uns lately: they are a product of the system that was forced on them.

What I find interesting is the apparent Zoomer dichotomy:

Some of them have picked up the whole globohomo/tranny agenda and run with it, and others are quite, almost shockingly, normal; ones that make me say to myself on occasion, "the kids are going to be alright."

Does anyone else see that?

 

[paternos]

I never liked these generalisations of generations. I doubt what they say. And it's always the same thing over and over again.

These are the oldest reference I can find of the term baby boomers, they are from 1981. Isn't this all this just the same over and over again?

Can't we just re-use this article and replace "baby boom children" with "generation Z"?



It's the language of marketing firms and research agencies posing us as different while it's the same thing over and over again. Every age has it's challenges and blessing. The flow of life.

We are all men, looking for the truth, for God, wether you're 60 or 15. We were created in the same way. With mostly the same challenges. Growing up, finding a place in society, looking for truth, meaning, God, love, sex, being confused, searching, being a son, becoming a father.

It's artificial, it's just names for age brackets. And it implies more than it is. It's the language of marketeers trying to sell stuff to their audience.

And I think it's also used for social constructivism which is a lot darker than just marketing, now the baby boomers are constantly blamed for everything in society by the media. And by that the young generation is pitted against the old generation.

This is from 1961:


I think this is not just harmless talk, it's the constant division of families of the real generations; "Grandfather, father, son".

Son -> Father -> Grand father has been replaced with marketing lingo. And the names are always changing as if we are props in 1984.

Because the positive revolutionary "love generation" and the "beatniks" are now the "OK boomers"

Thinking it over it tries to replace the real generations with societal paradigms like Gen Z.

It's also about enticing the youth to hate the elder. The same frame of thinking. The old ones had it easy, you are having a hard time, we are there for you. The state that has the youth has the future. Feeding the resentment of the young to the older generation.

A blatant lie of course. Student loans, job squeeze. You could just copy paste the articles from 1981. Or 1961. Same same but different.

All in all I think this is a part of the sick society where we are in. I looked up "generation" in the Bible and it only refers to father <-> son.

It seems the society is just stealing kids. You are not a son of Adam. But you are a son of America. You are Generation Z.

Quite horrifying in my opinion.

 

[JCSteel]

Gen Y tends toward extreme myopia and nostalgia overdosing, obsession with nerd franchises and collecting useless junk.

I'm Gen Y(born 1980)and I'm guilty of all those things. I'm obsessed with memories of Malls(and defunct department stores like Caldors) and physical media, and as much as I dislike geek culture, I can't stop buying Star Wars action figures.

 

[Sandalwood Peak]

This generational thing is just for fun, I rag on boomers too but I've always had older friends. Now my elders talk to me more like an equal. The perils of aging I guess.

I'm of the opinion we inherit the sins of our fathers. I had a poor relationship with my father and I've been morphing into him. I think we can draw some conclusions from such phenomena about whether we're so different after all. The people of the generations that preceded mine are just way more outgoing. This is where millennials get a bad rep. Millennials were born into a more rigid, less friendly atmosphere. This is going to take a major toll on our psychology. We were also born into culture that no longer was ruled by youthful spirit, no longer ruled by a desire to pave a way but instead ruled by manufactured personalities and out of reach illusions. The point is children require an environment which they can explore and assert themselves in that will smoothly carry on into adulthood. This has been destroyed. It may seem a bit obnoxious to bring race up but I personally feel the white race was hit especially hard. Obviously the millennials in poorer parts of the world fared a lot better, it got postponed for gen z.

The reason millennials are so "liberal" is because it's a symptom of being a loser. People who are weak, who have personality flaws that make them unlikable/dysfunctional will grow resentful, become subversive and look for safe havens like liberalism. I even see it with the right wing. You got losers, not in a disparaging way but factual way, who try to use various right wing hoorah imagery and ideas to feel good about themselves but at the end of the day they're not interested in actually living traditionally or sacrificing for the cause. I know it's a tough pill but I myself am not immune from such criticism.

This is why I'm very sympathetic to gen-z. I don't stalk them, I'm sure if I was watching tik toks all day I would hate them but I understand what they're going through. They're "subverting" you could say all the baggage we're throwing on them and are finding their own silly language, forming their own human connections and rebelling. It may not look pretty due to the age of technology but it's necessary, it's the human soul crying out to live. Maybe I'm too optimistic.