Originally Posted by bobrestore (Post 9122962)

They are more imprinted by their peers and socially hot topics.

Originally Posted by KevinP73 (Post 9122993)

This is so true. I've noticed that conversations with my daughter seem to stall out as soon as I ask her to elaborate or provide some support to a statement or "fact" that she offers up. It isn't until she comes home from school or hanging out with friends that she has a come back for me. I tell her to be careful where she gets her info. It's kinda like the stupid leading the ignorant.

Originally Posted by JD159 (Post 9123005)

Thats why a well rounded education should include some philosophy :D. Teaches critical thinking like no other. I'm bias because that was my major, even though many scoff at it. It taught me how to think that's for sure. Alone, the degree is useless for finding work unless you go the law route. But coupled with additional education and it can be quite useful.

Originally Posted by sammyg2 (Post 9123032)

My daughter is graduating this week with a double major: BS in Criminology and BS is forensic behavioral science.
that second one is similar to philosophy except it can translate to a career and people tend to NOT make fun of it at every opportunity. ;)

Originally Posted by sammyg2 (Post 9123032)

My daughter is graduating this week with a double major: BS in Criminology and BS is forensic behavioral science.
that second one is similar to philosophy except it can translate to a career and people tend to NOT make fun of it at every opportunity. ;)

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 9123086)

One of my friends posted on Facebook a picture of his daughter who is getting her Masters in French. What a very useful education that will be for a career. ;)

Originally Posted by motion (Post 9122731)

It makes me very sad. My travels have really opened up my eyes about the current situation in America. We have big problems ahead.

Originally Posted by vash (Post 9123124)

what exactly is the tail end of baby boomers...

early 60's.? hmmm..late 50's.

Originally Posted by pwd72s (Post 9123007)

The waitress in a restaurant Cindy & I frequent is 19...told us she's voting for Bernie because all her facebook friends are. Whew! Talk about herd mentality...further questioning told us she knows absolutely nothing about the various political systems...

We urged her to look at the current happenings in Venezuela..

Originally Posted by tabs (Post 9123126)

Was it on the road to Damascus that you had your epiphany?

Now since you are awake...realize that the the moment GW came on the TV in the fall of 08 to tell us that America was in a melt down situation THE WORLD CHANGED...the great post WW2 American Prosperity Bubble burst like Humpty Dumpty hitting the concrete never to be put back together again. Simply put the herd was spooked...for they learned all is not well in the land of milk and honey..

Now some may say they are as blind as ever, but they are worried on a daily basis.

Originally Posted by JD159 (Post 9122797)

*sign* Not another one of these again....

What you consider "mainstream" is a media production. All the media spits out is young hippies who don't feel safe if someone writes trump on the sidewalk. Then you have some personal instances where you notice some young person has a gross sense of entitlement. What happens next? You perpetuate a myth that all young people have a gross sense of entitlement.

Maybe it's just Canada, but everyone I know, even when I run into an old acquaintance, are working their assess off and finding jobs. I don't know where the media finds all these hippies. You don't see it as much on the news here.

Sure, it could just be my social circle, but I truly am widening it to people I haven't seen in years and run into at a store. Everyone is doing pretty good and working hard. Some have good jobs some have bad jobs, but everyone either has a job or is back in school for an education that will get them a job.

Much like myself, many of the university grads who didn't graduate with a degree in something health, engineering or business oriented are going back to school, but many times they choose college this go around because it gets you a job. I chose MBA. Studied my ass off for the GMAT and received my acceptance at a co-op MBA program that provides 12 months work experience at 3 different companies with great pay. Best decision of my life. But not everyone with a humanities degree could buckle down enough and succeed on something like the GMAT. So for them, I feel bad. Many of them were overachievers in high school, with great minds and ambitions, and passionate about a program that at the end, doesn't have very good employability. It was like a mirage for many of them. Reaching a light at the end of the tunnel after hard work. Only to find no reward. Literally no reward. Back in retail or something near min wage.

This is where a lot of the millennial frustration lies. You have your education system, parents and friends feeding you this idea that university is higher level thinking, and trades/college is somehow for the less intelligent. What they don't tell you is that the programs that have the largest enrollment, which are also the programs most pushed and generate big money, i.e. humanities and social sciences, can provide great programs in themselves, but to have a career require further specialization or education.

I've just been through all this, and analyzed the $hit out of it. There is a lot more to this than what is portrayed in the media and the perpetuated stereotype of entitlement.

But don't get me wrong. We have a hipster problem. There are a lot of entitled millennials. Lazyness etc. But not nearly as much as you think or what is portrayed. Perhaps I'm wrong about America and that is just the situation in Canada, but I don't believe that. We have a fraction of your population. For every 1 hippy we have, you have 10. Its a no wonder why you run into more of them.

I've ranted about this before because its frustrating. I like to think I have a somewhat "enlightened" perspective on these issues. From the inside out in a sense. Just trying to shed some light on the situation and provide a different perspective.

Originally Posted by bobrestore (Post 9122962)

what I call "the generation with no real mother and father"...They are more imprinted by their peers and socially hot topics.

Originally Posted by pwd72s (Post 9123007)

...she's voting for Bernie because all her facebook friends are.

Originally Posted by tabs (Post 9123175)

So you are trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together to make some sense of it all. How do the pieces fir together against your own perceptions...find any anomaly's, It is not the data it is your perception that needs to be adjusted. You construct you deconstruct X 40 odd years....and by the gods you get to walk in Elysian Fields.