{"id":28024,"date":"2014-09-30T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T04:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28024"},"modified":"2014-09-29T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T19:51:05","slug":"qotd-the-millennial-generation-or-generation-wuss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/09\/30\/qotd-the-millennial-generation-or-generation-wuss\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The Millennial Generation or “Generation Wuss”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been living with someone from the Millennial generation for the last four years (he\u2019s now 27) and sometimes I\u2019m charmed and sometimes I\u2019m exasperated by how him and his friends \u2014 as well as the Millennials I\u2019ve met and interacted with both in person and in social media \u2014 deal with the world, and I\u2019ve tweeted about my amusement and frustration under the banner “Generation Wuss” for a few years now. My huge generalities touch on their over-sensitivity, their insistence that they are right despite the overwhelming proof that suggests they are not, their lack of placing things within context, the overreacting, the passive-aggressive positivity, and, of course, all of this exacerbated by the meds they\u2019ve been fed since childhood by over-protective \u201chelicopter\u201d parents mapping their every move. These are late-end Baby Boomers and Generation X parents who were now rebelling against their own rebelliousness because of the love they felt that they never got from their selfish narcissistic Boomer parents and who end up smothering their kids, inducing a kind of inadequate preparation in how to deal with the hardships of life and the real way the world works: people won\u2019t like you, that person may not love you back, kids are really cruel, work sucks, it\u2019s hard to be good at something, life is made up of failure and disappointment, you\u2019re not talented, people suffer, people grow old, people die. And Generation Wuss responds by collapsing into sentimentality and creating victim narratives rather than acknowledging the realities of the world and grappling with them and processing them and then moving on, better prepared to navigate an often hostile or indifferent world that doesn\u2019t care if you exist.<\/p>\n

Brett Easton Ellis, “Generation Wuss”, Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a>, 2014-09-26.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been living with someone from the Millennial generation for the last four years (he\u2019s now 27) and sometimes I\u2019m charmed and sometimes I\u2019m exasperated by how him and his friends \u2014 as well as the Millennials I\u2019ve met and interacted with both in person and in social media \u2014 deal with the world, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,41],"tags":[407,956,375,139],"class_list":["post-28024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-quotations","tag-babyboomers","tag-millennials","tag-parents","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7i0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28025,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28024\/revisions\/28025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}