Posted by
Sue on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:10:45 PM
02/27/07
Woke up this morning and am still chuckling two hours later. A new study that took 25 years to complete has shown that the children of Generation X have finally become exactly what no one wanted: egoistic, narcissistic with a mentality of entitlement and self-love so deep that there is nothing anyone can say that they will listen to.
What did anyone expect? We started off with the 60's revolution of free love and drugs. That led off by the Women's Movement that advocated a hatred of men and women if you didn't want the same things they did. Men were bad and were to be used just like women had been. Hundreds of thousands of Americans went to college on entitlements: equal rights, affirmative action. It became more about your gender and the color of your skin. Gangs, drugs and corruption at every level increased throughout the land and Bill Clinton was the epitome of it all! He came from very humble beginnings but today the man makes $40 million just from speaking. Is this country great or what?
In the rush to get "equal", someone forgot to tell people that the easy road has its consequences: the road to hell if not paved with gold, it is paved with the results of good intentions gone bad!!
So, it took "experts" 25 years to tell us what a lot of of us have known for millennia: children need love first then a healthy dose of good parenting skills with consistent discipline. I wonder how much money these "experts" got for working on a problem for twenty five years to tell those of us with common sense what should have been apparent to all. Oh well, it has come home to roost.
Remember when your Mom or Dad told you that someday you would have a kid just like yourself? They weren't kidding. Except this new Gen Y is worse. Remember when, as a kid you said "I'm going to raise my kids better than you...". Better, no. But, they have showered their kids with everything and now the piper has come for his pay. Pity? I have absolutely none. They got exactly what they didn't want. What a lesson.
Life is tough. Before life can teach you some very hard lessons, your parents needed to lay down a foundation. Today, the hard lessons aren't teaching the kids anything anymore. They think anything and everything will be theirs for the asking, and, failing that, for the taking without consequence.
The entire world is suffering from the practices of the Gen X bunch. There is not a country in the world today that doesn't want what it wants regardless of what the consequences may be for the future. Is it too late? No, it is never too late, but the job just got a thousand times harder.