In Defense Of Millennials
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Op-Ed by Brandon Turbeville
Within the last ten years, it has become a trend of the older generations to make fun of millennials for being entitled, lazy, stupid, and generally annoying. Millennials are regarded as the opposite of the “greatest generation.” Where the “greatest generation” worked hard, fought through struggle and obstacles, and respected authority, millennials are regarded as people who feel entitled to certain levels of comfort from the start, avoid hardships and hard work, and have little regard for rules and responsibility. Where the older generation did not complain, millennials complain at the slightest obstacle they find in their path.
Of course, millennials haven’t made their situation better by being the generation of Social Justice Warriors who scream racism, homophobia, sexism, transphobia, or any and all other isms and phobias taught to them by cultural Marxist professors and media outlets at the slightest sign of disagreement or not being worshiped as the special snowflake they see themselves as being.
For the sake of this discussion, however, we will put aside the issue of cultural Marxism, the growing movement to make beautiful things ugly and ugly things beautiful at a cultural level, or the obsession with identity politics. This is by no means the generation with which such aberrations began. In fact, the millennial insistence on out-lefting each other is merely a manifestation of a social agenda that has been on the go for over one hundred years.
Instead, we should address the economic criticism of millennials which tends to revolve around work ethic, education, and overall level of “success.” Of course, “success” as defined by middle America is solely financial. Despite the generally more honorable values of past generations (community, family, etc.), Americans of all generations tend to measure a human being’s worth by the size of their wallet. In America, the bigger the purse, the bigger the person.
Out of all these generations, millennials have found themselves at the bottom of the barrel, having less financial worth as a group than any other generational category. Millennials are less likely to find good-paying jobs or to have stable or two-parent families. They have less upward mobility. So why is this the case? Those who wish to take part in generational warfare – another aspect of cultural warfare which has had profound negative effects on Western society – have a simple answer: millennials were born into a time of technology and were spoiled by their parents. Hence, millennials are lazy and simply do not want to work hard for a successful life because they were pampered from childhood.
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