Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Millennials



I read a lot of conservative writings - a lot - I mean you can't understand your opponent unless you study him/her, right?  One of the main themes besides "The poor just need to work harder dammit." and "Guns, guns, guns!!" and "Immigrants are the problem!" is "Millennials are a sign of a corrupt and declining culture." Yes, conservatives find it very (very) fashionable indeed these days to disparage Millennials:

Lazy.

Entitled.

Disengaged.

Narcissistic

Those are the main themes, anyway...

While I have a very small sample set, I've known four Millennials since their birth.  Here's what they are doing with their lives (in order of descending age):


  1. A Curriculum Developer for a charter school that specializes in immigrant children who neither speak nor read English when they start school.
  2. A PhD Biologist researching cancer treatments.
  3. A Social Worker binding up the wounds of and bearing witness to hundreds of victims from our ill-advised wars.
  4. A Nurse Practitioner leading the startup of a Sleep Medicine clinic.


Oh yes, and prior to their professional lives, all four of these Millennials worked (hard) to earn their money and spent tons of hours / days / weeks volunteering.

Not quite the neat narrative made popular by conservative thought leaders, now is it?


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