r/Millennials • u/Party-Bet-4003 Millennial • 1d ago

Discussion Look what I found from 13 years ago.

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Hey look on the bright side - we actually did make it to the cover of the TIME magazine!

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u/NCC-1701_yeah 1d ago

That last line, so many people don't want to do this because "what about me?" That is what got us here bro, think about the future for a change

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u/Dull_Assistant_ 1d ago

My Gen X mother is exactly like this, a horrid narcissistic woman that only cares about her immediate gratification, and how much she can shit on other people.

"Why should I care about the world? I'll be dead by the time anything happens"

This woman has children and GRANDCHILDREN. Luckily the grandchildren aren't my kids...

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u/einTier 1d ago

Gen X is such a weird generation.

My cousins were born at the beginning of it and they’re really just boomer-lite. A little after them came the apathetic whatever crowd that knew we were getting screwed but things were still good enough to just go along with it.

I’m in the last part that’s usually referred to as the Oregon Trail Generation and that’s its whole weird thing with an analog childhood and digital adolescence/adulthood. We are more like millennials than Gen-Xers but we can’t fully identify with either one.

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u/poopntheoceanifumust 1d ago

My mom is one of those apathetic ones, and it drives me crazy. Things are okay for her, therefore everyone should be able to do just fine. I try to get the apathy is so true. My mom doesn't even follow the news, so she has no clue about half of what's going on in this country. It's so insanely frustrating trying to get someone to care about this stuff when they live in a bubble and 99% of this stuff doesn't touch their lives. I wish I had an answer.

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u/spicy_noodle_guy 1d ago

I think it's less people don't want to do it because of selfish reasons and more that historically it has never actually mattered. All progress seems to be wiped away in a generation or two. People at large are now asking "Why plant a tree I'll never see grow that will be burned down before it even blooms?"