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2017-07-24 Home Front: Culture Wars
The Coming New Dark Ages: Millennials say why they are fragile
[SenseOfEvents] In a recent op-ed for Detroit News, millennial Kaylee McGhee offered an insightful explanation of her own:
Millennials are in a constant contest to one-up each other in showing tolerance, and when anyone or anything stands in their way, they collapse into temper tantrums.

And the truth is, none of us should be surprised. My generation is a symptom of the society past generations have built -- one characterized by immediate gratification, the breakdown of a moral code and the victim mentality. It’s the wreckage of past generations’ experiments with post-modern liberalism, and millennials are trying to wade through it.

Millennials are desperately searching for answers to questions they’re afraid to ask. And because our predecessors failed to defend the moral code that once provided clarity, my generation replaced it with the morality of political correctness. The result is the snowflake-ification of a generation.
Millennials Value Tolerance Over Freedom
Pew Research Center, reports 40 percent of millennials believe government should be able to prevent people from saying offensive things to minority groups. A devout individual objecting to taking photos at a same-sex wedding could qualify for being offensive to a minority group. Thus, Millennials either keep quiet to be perceived as "tolerant" or supposedly fight for equality.
We have seen their tolerance in action
...All of which seems to me that this generation is relapsing into being ruled by honor-shame dynamics, in which the inner compass of conscience, objective moral codes and universal values are diminished - in fact altogether discarded. Instead, wholly subjective assessments reign supreme.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-07-24 05:26|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 'The Coming New Dark Ages' sometimes referred to as 'When the Music Stops.'
Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-24 08:08||   2017-07-24 08:08|| Front Page Top

#2 It's like releasing 10,000 confined minks, without any natural environmental development, into the wilds. Run free! (right into natural evolution) Ain't mother nature a bitch?
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-07-24 09:03||   2017-07-24 09:03|| Front Page Top

#3 like bombing ethiopian cavelry
Posted by 746 2017-07-24 11:37||   2017-07-24 11:37|| Front Page Top

#4 It's a self culling cohort, or herd, whatever you prefer. Or we could call it.....a Correction.....
Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-07-24 11:51||   2017-07-24 11:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Very '50's science fiction-ish, revisited in our time.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-07-24 12:36||   2017-07-24 12:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, I thought you linked to "Marching Morons", Skidmark.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-07-24 12:42||   2017-07-24 12:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Millennials Value Tolerance Over Freedom

Actually, the problem is they don't understand what these things mean and how they work, let alone how they work together.
Posted by gorb 2017-07-24 12:45||   2017-07-24 12:45|| Front Page Top

#8 I was actually thinking more of "Idiocracy", Grom, but
I suppose a stock market reference is also appropriate.
Posted by Skidmark 2017-07-24 16:49||   2017-07-24 16:49|| Front Page Top

#9 You should look up Kornbluth's MarchingMorons - if only because it was written in 1951.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-07-24 17:05||   2017-07-24 17:05|| Front Page Top

#10 g(r)om, Marching Morons in some ways describes a world that our "elites" seem to want - world where the elites run the planet in secret, while the untermenschen just take up space. Then the "hero" comes along and proposes a solution - to get rid of all or most of the proles.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2017-07-24 17:22||   2017-07-24 17:22|| Front Page Top

#11 I wouldn't call it their dream - after all the intelligent are not secret masters, more like secret servants. Plus, to me, the current elites are the morons.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-07-24 17:44||   2017-07-24 17:44|| Front Page Top

#12 Marching Morons

"the noon rocket to Los Angeles, which is neither a rocket, nor going to Los Angeles." One of my favorites...
Posted by M. Murcek 2017-07-24 17:56||   2017-07-24 17:56|| Front Page Top

#13 Marching Morons

Is it really necessary? A label such as that could be a 'trigger' in Georgia.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-24 17:58||   2017-07-24 17:58|| Front Page Top

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