Millennials Suck!

Yeah I know.

Millennials are lazy, entitled, spoiled, know it all brats.

What a deluge they've been subjected to the last year or two.

I don't buy any of it.

Ok, I do a little. I insist that most of what's going on is elite Millennials, the grads of Harvard, Duke, the over-achieving high school 4.0 GPA types. I submit that we are seeing with Millennials is not a product produced by Millennials but a product produced by a bubble of elite schools, neighborhoods and parents. The Millennials I taught at community college did not act like this. Most were too busy with jobs, or helping their moms at home, or had learned discipline and respect in the military.

These elite Millennials are having their first close encounter with elite Balding Boomers. The result is not pretty. It never is.

Look, kids, Balding Boomers hate everyone.

Remember, these are the twerps that in the 60's had the temerity to tell their parents that they were all wrong and they should listen to a bunch of spoiled over-privileged jerks. Their poor parents. Childhood marred by the Depression, youth lost in the war; all they wanted was a bit of peace and quiet. Instead they got the 60's man.

Then Generation X came along. Born in the 60's and 70's we took one look at our parent's formative decade and, in the words of PJ O'Rourke, said, 'Give me a haircut and a job.'

Maybe it was the result of being exposed to re-runs of Lucy, Beaver, Father Knows Best, the Dick Van Dyke show, etc etc, but us Xrs looked at things in the 70's and 80's, looked at how things were in the post-war boom, and wondered what the hell the Balding Boomers were complaining about.

Then the Balding Boomers noticed that we weren't just like them. By the early 90's they were slamming Generation X as lazy, entitled, etc, etc. Where was the protest? Where was the thirst for social change? We should have been living up to their legacy, but how dare we try anyway because we could never reach the level of the self appointed 'greatest generation'.

Our clothes were terrible. Or values were all wrong. Our music sucked. And don't even get the Balding Boomers started on MTV!

'We ended a war!' the screamed.

'Uhhh, no,' we screamed back 'the North Vietnamese Army did.'

Guess what, every knew generation seems strange to the one that came before. I got my own beefs with Millennials.  The hand slap, shoulder bump thing drives me nuts. And Honestly, guys, what's with the man-bun? But is it really any worse than the mullet I sported in 1989?

So don't take it personally Millennials. The Balding Boomers hate everyone, and now they're mad that their just as old and geriatric as grandpa.

As far as slamming Millennials, Generation X should know better.