Millennials and the Media
While it is commonplace that people in the traditional media
are usually prone to oversimplification and thoughtless generalizations often based on their political prejudices,
sometimes they outdo themselves. Such is the case now with the treatment of the
millennials . We are told often that they are pretty much uniformly left leaning, wimpy, true believing, green slackers with very little interest in
work or economic success and little or no optimism about their or America’s
future, but lots of “idealism” at least
in comparison to all the hidebound older people.
My advice to both the millennials and to the older people
who listen to it and worry what the country is coming to is to ignore this stuff or laugh it off. Besides the obvious fatuity of making such
sweeping claims about a diverse group of seventy or more million people, we’ve
heard it all before from the same sorts of sources with my generation the boomers.
The fashion in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s was to
depict us as pretty much uniformly left leaning, stoned out, disillusioned hippies or semi-hippies with very little
interest in work or economic success and little or no optimism about our or
America’s future, but lots of idealism
at least in comparison to all the hidebound older people.
Many leftists hoped, and many conservatives feared the
country would abandon its historic principles and fall into decline with such a
worthless bunch as we were as the upcoming generation. That didn’t happen because the generalizations
those hopes and fears were based on were nonsensical wishful thinking by the
journalists of the time.
It likely is the same
today. It will probably turn out that overall the kids are alright.
Labels: boomers, media, Millennials, politics
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