I know I promised not to keep the generational warfare going, but in this case it's just an accurate objective description rather than emotional rant. You may have noticed by now that a whole generation of 30s and 40 year olds is throwing public temper tantrums, and you're not allowed to criticize it or suggest that maybe the problem lies with them: fortunately I have this platform. This is purely Millennial hyper-competitiveness and entitlement, which they started and which nobody else before them (and hopefully after) ever did.
The way it works is that they're too coddled to have any real achievements to justify their inflated egos, and too sheltered to know how to relate to a crowd of random strangers who don't owe them anything or have a pre-existing relationship with them (like their indulgent helicopter parents). So instead of doing anything praise-worthy to win the approval of the audience, they drip venom about how 'I don't care what you think of me' (people who say this are always the *most* hyper-sensitive to what others think, not to mention anti-social). Then when this doesn't earn them a trophy, they stoop to demanding approval through threats of self-harm, hectoring, lecturing, preening, tantrums and rants, and so on and so forth.
'I'm not going to do anything to deserve it, but you'll still praise me anyway-- and if you don't, then get ready because the mother of all meltdowns is coming' is the intended message. It's just such anti-social psycho behavior.
Obviously, as I said before, this type of stuff did NOT exist before them among adults. No Boomer or Gen-Xer would have behaved like this, and if this kind of stuff had happened even 20 years ago, it would've been as so shameful that the screeching meltdown-thrower would have had to kill themselves out of sheer embarrassment -- imagine being an 11 yr old child, in the body of an adult, lol.
However thanks to the MASSIVE overproduction of power-trippers, this behavior is now tolerated and frequent, rather than ostracized and rare.
Aside from lowering the standards of adult behavior to make way for the Power-Tripper Generation, this is also the inevitable result of locking an entire cohort (now two cohorts) of young people inside the house, and never to allowing them to go outside or socialize freely or spend time in environments which do not have explicitly articulated / rigidly enforced rules. Their brains simply never learn how to socialize with strangers. Then they confuse what works with their parents (whining and meltdowns) with what works with other people (where these things just get you dismissed). Naturally this results in a very painful clash with reality.
When you are allowed to go outside and play with friends, you learn very quickly that acting like a freak means nobody will ever interact with you, and just gets you ostracized -- so you try to contribute something, rather than demand others adjust to you. It's most children should learn by the age of 7. But since these people were never allowed to learn such simple rules, the lessons are new to them (in their 30s and 40s), when it's far too late to change.
Parents -- let your kids go outside!
(I just had to get it out of my system, lol.)
ReplyDeleteIn fairness, I think this one is fairly accurate and less seething, so it doesn't feel as bad to write -- and it is a well documented behavior, so it's not as if I'm making up some accusation in order to go on an unhinged rant: they all do this, and it's a real marker that seperates them from the people before them (and hopefully the ones after them -- no way Zoomers and Alphas will be this bad).
I'd always wondered why they were all like this, becaue I personally found the behavior incredibly retarded and enraging. It's like a comedian telling a bad joke, and then trying to hector the audience into laughing, LOL (only Millennials are doing it for real) -- what makes you think we owe you anything, dork? We'll feel how we want to feel: if you do something good we'll let you know, and if not you'll just have to sit down and learn from the experience, rather than acting like a Karen and trying to 'ummm akshualllyyy' your way into something you don't deserve.
But I guess it makes sense if you understand that they just can't help themselves: understanding how real adults work is literally beyond them. And so they're just delusionally projecting what clearly must have worked on their own parents, onto the adult world of random strangers, and thinking that because whining and temper tantrums got them ahead inside the house, well, why shouldn't they work outside of it, too?
So it does make sense, in a twisted kind of way -- extreme fragility due to stunted development.