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In reply to the discussion: Time magazine=Millennials Are Lazy, Entitled Narcissists Who Still Live With Their Parents [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)That me me me generation today can't write script as schools don't teach it
Can't physically write a manuscript without a computer
Fountain Pen? WTH is a fountain pen?
Have never heard about going out and playing chess, that is a foreign concept when they can play whatever
therefore they don't get the chess game as chess is a relic from the past
So is listening to speakers in a county square or park without shouting them down
without saying unrec. Without ignoring anyone or liking them.
Music listening back then was everything, there were no labels like today no narrowcasting because the me me me generation can't wait 4 minutes til the next song comes on.
10 seconds and they flip the station.
Bruce Springsteen said it best(oldie that he is) in his song about all those tv stations with nothing on.
Give me antennatv, metv and TCM and the new Dallas reboot and one can get rid of everything else.
Whatever happened to the true meaning of the Summer of Love, where everyone there was there, regardless of labels? When one took their clothes off, no one knew if one was a democratic,republican, law enforcement or lover. Everyone was one.
Those 15 and under will be the ones to come back.Even their music and tv is different than the me me me. They are living as one and dropping all pretense to their parents and are going to be more like their grandparents
Isn't it odd that people that hate the agenda and capitalism, say they want socialism
but don't want to be social to anyone in the mainstream80?
BTW, Fall Out boy, former alt stars comes back and has a #1 album...(oops mean download) solely because of a duet with Elton OMG IS HE OLD John.
Great song though.But then its the dinosaurs that continue to tour non stop for decades and decades playing sell out shows throughout the world.
Except for Lana Del Rey who at 25 is really a throwback to Brian Wilson in genius and Roy Orbison and Elton John and Elvis P and Elvis C(both of them relics), that once in a generation one of a kind,
I doubt 40 years from now, any of the others will be remembered.
John Mayer who?
as George Jones sang "Who's gonna fill their shoes?"
The me me me need more than a 60 character attention span.
The need to learn patience and that good things come to those that wait
Corny cliche's that are so true from another time and another place
They hate Jay Leno, yet he is #1 as he has since he began
I'll take Carson and Leno over Jimmy Jimmy and Seth any day.
Didn't that last Steve Carrell movie about the magician say the same thing that Time Mag. is saying? The audience picked him over Jim Carrey's satorical take on the kiddies.