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If so, we are screwed.

PeopleUnited says

If so, we are screwed.

Pray tell, who is your bet on?

Our Last Best Hope? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHBURP!

I'm putting my bet on sex robots, over that of Generation X.

Indiana Jones says

PeopleUnited says

If so, we are screwed.

Pray tell, who is your bet on?

I only mean to say that when I look around at the people of Gen X, it is not exactly reassuring or inspiring. Your perspective may be different.

We'll be the last hope because our kids will be living with us until we die.

At least the new generation will have it better than Millennials. Lost generations always give rise to a great generation.

PeopleUnited says

I only mean to say that when I look around at the people of Gen X, it is not exactly reassuring or inspiring. Your perspective may be different.

Yes, I understand. Gen X is getting older, and some in the generation have given up, unfortunately. Many are either sick, dead or just checked out. Always a cynical group, growing up in the shadows of the boomers, disappointed to watch the Boomers, who had it all handed to them, blow it all. Sex, drugs and rock n roll, man. And Gen X along with the Millennials have been disproportionately affected.

And still, the boomers have resisted giving up control and are fighting to stay in power until the moment of death when they then plan on handing the keys to their millennial children.

I'm not sure if Gen X will even get a chance to save anything or anybody, or if they're even up for the job anymore. I hope they are. But more and more, Gen Z seems to be the next best hope.

Indy, what do you think America and the world needs to keep hope alive?

Here are some problems the world is facing:

1. Wealth disparity
2. Job loses due to improved technology and loss of domestic manufacturing
3. Weapons of mass destruction and disruption including cyber weapons in the hands of unstable leaders and terrorists
4. Police brutality and an unjust criminal "justice" system (I recently read that the USA with its relatively small population houses 25% of the worlds prison inmates)
5. SJW and PC insanity

How is Gen X or any group going to tackle these problems? Here on Patnet people are just engaged primarily in the same old tribalism. People even ban others from threads to avoid hearing criticism of their perspectives. Groups are more polarized than ever. Insane people mowing down political opponents with rifles and cars. I don't see how America recovers from this. It will take a police state to keep everyone under control. I am not looking forward to that inevitable outcome, but it seems like it is already baked in the cake.

Orwell was only a few decades early. Big brother is preparing the troops (er peace keepers). You will most likely live to see the day that armed troops run through your city to keep the peace. Hopefully some cities will be spared the rioting that will happen before martial law is declared. This election proved that the schisms that divide America are beyond repair. I am not even sure a war like World War II could unite us now. One side would just say that it is a fascist war and serve to undermine the war effort at home. Thus the need for martial law.

I hope I am wrong.

Indiana Jones says

And still, the boomers have resisted giving up control and are fighting to stay in power until the moment of death when they then plan on handing the keys to their millennial children.

Exactly. The Baby Boomers are the most selfish generation and so, of course, they will cling to power until they die leaving that power to their own children.

Unfortunately, the Millennials are pretty much fucked up. They started out enamored with material things and corporations. The Second Great Depression did make them jaded about corporatism though. However, the Millennials have also been brainwashed by the conservative left and are ill-equipped to deal with reality. They did go to college in mass, but most of them just partied there and got worthless degrees in worthless subjects.

I suspect that the Millennials STEM workers will be great having grew up with technology, but STEM is a minority and has always been productive. Gen X STEM workers built the Internet. Baby Boomer STEM workers built the modern computer.

I'm pretty sure that Gen X will be relegated to a footnote in history just like the Silent Generation. And outside of STEM, I haven't seen anything impressive in Gen X. Sure, they aren't nearly as bad as the Boomers, but neither are the Millennials.

I don't have much hope that things won't be fucked up when the babies of today turn 20. I think that at best, they will still be dealing with the aftermath of the conservative left and right fucking things up in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. I'd like to be wrong on this.

Dan8267 says

I don't have much hope that things won't be fucked up when the babies of today turn 20. I think that at best, they will still be dealing with the aftermath of the conservative left and right fucking things up in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

I agree. And I have no hope that the conservatives won't COMPLETLY run the world in 20 years. They have been running many parts of the world for the past 100. Today they have China, Russia, The Middle East. Even Europe has become a near total police state where only the criminals and terrorists dare resist the authoritarian crackdowns or question the narrative by acknowledging their European governments have become the problem rather than the solution.

Dan8267 says

I suspect that the Millennials STEM workers will be great having grew up with technology

You may want to give up on those suspicions because many Millennials do not have to stamina, to handle a STEM curricula, w/o being given the answers ahead of time.

I already have plenty of friends, whose kids don't use wikipedia, to look up simple answers to questions, because they're expecting their teachers to show it to them ... someday in the future.

This is a coming generation of losers, one which will be replaced entirely by automation.

Rin says

You may want to give up on those suspicions because many Millennials do not have to stamina, to handle a STEM curricula, w/o being given the answers ahead of time.

Most people of all generations can't handle STEM. Those who enter STEM tend to be the very best of the best. I wouldn't assume there are no such elites in the Millennials. They just aren't representative of their generation. No elites are.

Give GenX credit at least for being the group that bridged the technology paradigms in society to what we are today. But yeah we did get screwed a bit with the outsourcing rage in my opinion. I lay a lot of the blame at fucking PC bullshit from the 90s... I think it totally screwed up the calibration on a lot of could-have-beens / go-getters with the guilt.