Reader and friend JohnC posted a long series of questions about generational differences between the Baby Boomers, GenXers, Millennial(tard)s, and GenZ in a couple of comments on the Great Mondaydact Browser Buster from earlier this week:
Hey Didact what are thoughts on Gen X bosses? Gen X parenting?
I know many blame the Baby boomers on this and that. I myself am a Gen Y.
I have worked with Silent, Baby boomers, Gen X, Gen Y and now Z. I find the Baby Boomers would say a lot of crap on things like SJW things but really not mean it. As long as the company is making money.
Gen X on the other hand push health, safety, anti bully and equality far more often in the workplaces and see it more important than money.
I think what you are seeing in the world today in major companies in the USA is the rise of Gen X bosses. I could be wrong, but I don’t think many companies are run by Gen Y at this moment in time. I think Gen X now are taking over the companies.
Also parenting, my gosh the anti racism, anti bully campaign and the push for young girls in higher education by the Gen X’s is amazing bad. Gen Y are now parenting but we are still at the early stage since many of us did not kids until we were 30s (I still don’t have any at this moment in time). I went to school in the 90s and Baby boomers teachers are the type that will say something but don’t care to push it hard. Gen X teachers are the type that if they say it they enforce it.
Gen Y are the type that push the ideas to the limits until it fails hard and then move on to other ideas. That is why Gen Y try Veganism, Atheism, women working high careers and voting to the left at a higher rate when they were young compare to Gen X and Baby boomers.
Again I could be wrong.
Also a thought many of the pastors in the US today are Gen X and what do we see. The stupid anti racism and pro rainbow flags.
This is not to hate on the Generation X but to show that things don’t get better just because the Baby boomers are retiring. The Baby boomer were and still are bad compare to the generations that come before them. And it is amazing that many of them still think the world owes them.
Now that Gen X is in charge you would think that they would want to reverse some of the damage but instead they push it into high gear.
I also don’t believe that Gen Y or Z will do any better when they get into power.
My prediction is that many companies today will over time give up higher positions to women of Gen Y. They (gen Y women in the positions) will then destroy the businesses.
You can not put your faith in the Generations, since they are people.
Also it sad to think that instead of trying to make positive changes now, many are relaying on the younger generations to fix the problems cause by their generations and the older ones. People had given up on Gen Y but i will tell you, Gen Z can not fix it (at least not on their own) and Generation Alpha will not fix it. It will take all generations to make sacrifices and a turn to God.
Like I said – a LOT of questions all strung together. So I answered them at some length. Here is the embedded podcast:
I referenced a much earlier post that I wrote about this way back in the day in response to a similar set of questions from reader Kapios. Here’s the link. And there are also a few posts here, here, and here where I admit that I was probably wrong about a few things.
There are also a few books and works mentioned in the podcast. Here are the two main ones:
- The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy – What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny by William Strauss and Neil Howe
- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman
Neil Howe is an interesting character who has a lot to say about inter-generational conflict as well. His opinions are worth looking at in light of the questions presented above:
For an example of genuinely stupid legal malfeasance on the part of Shrillennial-run companies, take a look at our beloved and dreaded Supreme Dark Lord’s (PBUH) last Darkstream:
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Sorry
As a gen x we're cynical and jaded because boomers blocked us from taking over back in the 90s like we should have. I lostc10 years of my life married later and have a smaller family than I wanted.
I never cared to safety and crap. In fact as a boss I'd be both tough and compassionate
xavier
Thank you for the Podcast Didact.
Yes I was harsh on the Gen X. I actually don't mind working with Gen Xers.
I think this whole COV19 has really made me lose trust and hope in people. Especially in Australia, the reaction has been to follow the government. I talk to many different Generations in this period. The Gen's X in my experience have been the most supportive of the locked downs willing to destroy the economy if it will save lives.
You are also right about people like RamzPaul who have spoken out against the locked downs and has gotten hate from it.
You right about Gen Z.
If you look at the voting especially if you separate by race, Gen Z is very conservative.
It could be the anti white education is gotten so bad that turning to tech and alternatives is only natural.
It was just me with giving up hope.
Thank you Didact you
I'm one of those rare people caught between Gen-X and Millennial. I've seen the good and bad of both generations, as well as Boomers because I was raised by two of them. Plainly put, those who remember the 'good' America never had any interest in preserving it, whether it was the selfishness and stupidity of Boomers or the cynical, left-out nature of X'ers. "Conserving" anything in and of America was fucked from the beginning. Millennials? Their outlook is one of survival, and one cannot have a mentality of sustenance and excellence at the same time. They live in a zero-sum, cut-throat world and will spend their whole lives desperately chasing a $0.15 raise or an extra three months of job security, knowing full well they probably won't get it. No, they don't know how to do anything else, because that's how they were programmed by their Boomer parents. All their life they have said and done shit they really didn't mean because that's how you get into Stanford. How can we be surprised they are empty-headed zombies?
Gen Z? All they know is the downward spiral, and they know that it is them that will have to rebuild the wreckage put into motion by those before them. Which is why they want nothing to do with Millennials and above: those people are in the way. Gen Z just doesn't have the raw numbers or developed talent to build yet. Besides, society hasn't been completely razed to the ground. That has to happen first. We took a big step in that direction in 2020, right on time. There is a sweet spot where youthful energy, talent and ideas create a perfect storm, and it looks like we're going to hit it. Gen Z is the "new" America, and it actually looks very bright. The problem is we have about 10 years and 250 million people worth of dead weight to cull first. Some are Boomer, some are Millennial and some are illegal, but culled they will be. Befriend a teenager and team him useful skills, and get him into a church. Preferably an Apostolic one. It's the only thing that will save you from being burned at the stake, for when it's all said and done I believe these fuckers will do it.