PBS: Why Millennials Ruin Everything

[drunkenshoe]

My brother and sister were born in Eighties. :p
If I had a say in 'marking' my generation, it'd probably be from tops 1985 to tops 1995. Or '86 and '96. If you are in that agerange, I see potential to equivalency of where we are at in our lives.

You are from a more evolved culture in comparison. This is not just something about periods of time.   

[PickelledEggs]

I would blame the ox. It should know better.
After all, it is the ox getting the extra whipping to get the cart out of the mud.

lol that's like when you play a MarioKart 64 and you press the "a" button harder to make your car go faster.

[PickelledEggs]

Also. the funny thing about when these people try to make a point by showing a google search, or even the start of a google search and seeing the predicted searches....

Google uses analytics to predict these things. Bing does too. If it's a major search engine, it's going to have a huge number of results on the exact topic you search for. Also, google, for instance, will show predicted searches based on what that user has already searched for. I don't think if you guys press the "s" key in to google on your browser, the first couple predicted searches is going to be "stream to facebook via OBS" and "sparks this town" (see my screenshot I took and attatched)

Why did that stuff show up for me? Because I was searching it. If you're constantly searching a certain narrative, or trying to search ways to push your narrative, you begin to get a vortex of your own echo. A personal 1-man echochamber that seems like it's more relevant than it actually is to reality. If I keep searching "girls like guys who forcefully advance on them sexually" the analytics will reverberate back and make me think it's true, even though it's not. Or at least that there are proportionately more people that think that than there is.

If you search something on google, you're going to get a massive amount of results. If I search Hitler loved everyone, the first thing that comes up for me is "The hitler we loved and why"... also on there... "10 reasons Hitler was one of the good guys"... See attached image #2... you and I know that Hitler was a genocidal maniac and we would not, by even the slightest call him one of the "good guys", but if you search it, it will show up. False narratives or true narratives and anything in between. If you search it, it will show up.

[PickelledEggs]

That all said, I don't necessarily disagree with the original post. I actually think it's pretty interesting and brings up a few good points. I do think people have to stop using google searches as evidence of relevance... or evidence of.... anything.

[PickelledEggs]

Here is another good video on the subject of generations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HFwok9SlQQ

[Journey_To_Mars]

Here is another good video on the subject of generations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HFwok9SlQQ

I wanted to use this video as well but I decided that the one I used would better fit the narrative my argument.

[Baruch]

Usually Generation X says they don't exist, because marketers jump from Baby Boomers to Millennials.  So yes, this whole thing is a marketing concept.  Do you claim that marketing doesn't exist?  My Millennial daughter will be surprised to learn that she doesn't exist.  She was always trending toward Buddhism anyway ;-)

[Journey_To_Mars]

I'm not claiming that marketing doesn't exist at all, I just wanted something that more fully got the picture across that we would always be talking about the next group of kids as being less bright than when they were kids.

[Baruch]

I'm not claiming that marketing doesn't exist at all, I just wanted something that more fully got the picture across that we would always be talking about the next group of kids as being less bright than when they were kids.

Every generation looks down on the next, adults are taller than children ;-)

[Journey_To_Mars]

Every generation looks down on the next, adults are taller than children ;-)

But only children have the potential to outgrow the adult.

[Ro3bert]

If an oxcart gets stuck in the mud, do you blame the ox or do you blame the driver?

Frankly I'd blame the mud first then the driver.

[Ro3bert]

Well I was born in the 1930's so don't know what a "millenial" is.

[Baruch]

Well I was born in the 1930's so don't know what a "millenial" is.

You must make calls with a Seeing iPhone.  Is your white cane bluetoothed?

[pr126]

Well I was born in the 1930's so don't know what a "millenial" is.

Whoa! We have someone here older than I am.
Welcome Ro3bert.