It’s Their Fault

I feel bad mentioning this rather unfair takedown of Millennials by a fairly out-of-it college professor, but because of this blog topic, I must…

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The Boomers’ carelessness with oil is well documented, and now one of the silent generation is speaking up about it: oil man and college football booster T. Boone Pickens. In what he says will be the biggest special issue campaign ever, Pickens will be promoting his wind-energy plan throughout the campaign. (Who [...]

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A great post from from the Daily Kos:
Perhaps…what I find most infuriating about pieces that call out Millenials for their perceived inaction [is] that there is no corresponding chastisement of the Baby Boomers or the millions of other Americans who also have the ability to engage in “real world” activism.
The post goes on to explain [...]

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Dennis Prager today has an pretty annoying column in which he says that youth supported movements are often naive and narcissistic (based on just two examples from the same time period), and uses that observation to proclaim that he therefore distrusts Obama. While his leap from distrusting historical youth movements to distrusting Obama’s [...]

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Perhaps it is only natural that the wealthiest generation ever is also the worst American generation at saving. According to a just-released McKinsey survey (see graph),
the Boomers’ missing savings…accounts for most of the collapse in the U.S. household saving rate from its peak of over 10 percent in the mid-1980s to around 2 percent [...]

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“Follow your bliss.”
It’s a classic boomer rallying cry - if you believe in it, you can do it; if it comes to you, you deserve it - and it’s a theory continues to massage Boomer egos today, often in bestselling form.
Joseph Campbell, of course, was the American mystic and writer who delivered this somewhat vague message of salvation [...]

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