A little easy on my generation:
So one of the most common thing you hear form older folk is how the later generation takes the cake, they do this wrong, they go to the wrong music, they are not disciplined, I'd wager that's an unfair conclusion. By all accounts my generation (I'm count 1990's) at the most is only 22 year old, how much did the previous generations do at that age? Not much, they barely started voting, they cant get a potion of power, and the older generation still holds most of the power. Yes we make mistakes, yes we are immature, but that is cause we are still for all reasons babes, the OLDEST of us is barely 22, how mature where you at 22? Not very I'd wager, just by the way you guys talk of how much you felt you knew but did not in your twenty.
So lets get down to some of the common areas of complaints. First off, not being disciplined. Yes, we dont have the same form of punishment that they used to, and some claim that thats why kids act out, but the same was said when they said you could spank but not cause them to bleed, or bruise to badly, and then some. 2nd off I want to point out there is no proof to back this up, people can claim they "see it" but I'd auger they have no way of knowing which parents do punish their kids that way and which dont, and assume the ones who don't act out are punished that way. Even if we took this as true and that its the reason, it was not my generation that took it out, it was the last one. That is on them if true but then they blame us for it, we did not take it out, you did and raised us, so whose fault is that? We listen to bad music many say, this has been said since the dawn of time, and will be said by my generation and is even being said now, but I have to point out, it is the last generation that makes this "bad
music" not us (We do more now, but when we started to most of it was 30 year old or so.) and again the bad music comes form the last generation, we just listen to it. Same can be said for TV, movies and anything else, its the older generation, not ours, that is causing the problem because most of us are to young to be able to
So in conclusion, most of these "problems" we have are caused by or helped by the last generation, not mine. that's not to say we dont have problems and we don't have our fair share, we do, just many of the complaints IMO are unfounded on my generation. So I say this, can we really judge a generation when the oldest are barely adults? I'd say no, we still have a lot to learn, you cant compare us as 20 wild year olds to the 40 and mellow of the last generation, you have to compare 20 form this gen, form the last gen to be fair. Whats more is you dont know what we will do, we may be the ones that fix the economy, we may be the ones that finally get world peace, we may be the ones that one day will be the "greatest generation". I promise you, no one said that of the generation called that when they where growing up, parents still said that in their day it was better, still felt the music was to loud or wild, still felt the kids where way worse then they ever where.
The simple fact is how is my generation doing? We are still kids, wait till we get in power, wait till we have the ability to affect things before you say if we are good or bad, because no one knows what we will be, we need to mature, but thats part of life and every generation