The annoying people, aka celebrities and influencers, are trying to make marriage trendy as if it’s a positive thing. Here’s why marriage is worthless and how Gen Z can correct the course of love for future generations.
So the baby boomer brigade ruined the sanctity of marriage pretty much permanently, however, of all the stupid shit the boomers have done, this might actually be one of their best contributions to society as a whole.
If you don’t know by now, most boomers are NPD as fuck. Their idiotic millennial children are mostly the same way. They cared too much about the frivolous nature of fitting in and in that, they are annoying as all hell. However, that need drove marriage into the garbage where it belongs. The alleged number of failed marriages for a boomer is 7.
That’s a lot of fucking up. I mean, this is the generation that gave birth to 1980s materialism. So they were born to make marriage successful, right?
Marriage was the original 1980s materialism movement, yet instead of money and bank accounts, you got tracts of land, power and a fetted goat. What of it? Well, that doesn’t strike you as a ritual based on love, right?
What you’re seeing in the news lately when you see a celebrity getting married is undoubtedly a PR move, more so than a love move. I mean, celebrities are the second biggest group of fuck ups that aren’t boomers and millennials and when were celebrities ever known for being able to keep a relationship going?
The celebrity stereotype in my youth was all press is good press, so keep jumping into affair after affair to keep yourself relevant.
Ideally, you marry for love, not power or money. You both start on a semi even keel and build a life together. The science says for men it’s slightly across and down. For women, it across and up.
So an example of this would be college educated students. Ivy League man, state school women. State school man, community college women. Community college man, high school graduate and high school graduate man, high school drop out. Those are the likely barometric data for that.
Same would be true of degrees. PH.D Male, Masters degree female. masters degree male, four year degree female. Four year degree male, high school diploma female. High school diploma male, dropped out female.
Each one is slightly across and down for a male and slightly across and up for a female.
That’s easy to understand. What about houses or cars, or celebrity status, or other bullshit? If you have 19 rooms, do you have to date someone with a paltry 12? No, the easiest barometer is the fiscal status. Slightly across and down would be millionaire to half a million. So you tally all fiscal shit and do it the easiest way you can, however, that’s not love. Yet, that is exactly what marriage was intended for, during its heyday of the Middle Ages.
So my arguments against marriage have been these over the years.
It’s mostly for the female anyways. Men don’t really care for the ceremony.
. It’s mostly just a structure for children
It’s a bad deal for most involved past a certain time frame and the pooling of resources.
Love is better than a ceremony
It’s a failure more often than not
People put too much stock in having to make it last forever.
What the conclusion should be, is that marriage, when people try to adapt to it, turns them into toxic people and ruins the state of love.
So what can Gen Z do to combat this? Besides overturning the system and starting from scratch, civil unions are your best bet. Why? Cause a civil union doesn’t homogenize your finances, it doesn’t care about your cars, ect.
Its sole reason for existence was a work around to gays wanting the benefits of marriage, but people wouldn’t allow them. It says the state recognizes your love and gives you the most important benefits of all, making meaningful plans that positively affect each other. Such as medical decisions or similar situations. Thus, remaking marriage into a more meaningful and purposeful system again, instead of a decedent ceremony over stuff.
So it would be wise for Gen Z to not fall for the idiocy of celebrities trying to get a shitty system over, for the sake of attempting to stimulate population growth or whatever the goal is. 99% of the celebrities married probably have never been in love, have no clue what love is and did it for the PR. Gotta stay relevant somehow, uh?
However, this isn’t an indictment on love, but how love as been cast aside in favor of worthless attention seeking behavior.
Take me for example, I made power play after power play throughout my youth, intentionally taxing myself out of the Insanity of millennial and boomers bullshit and I got amply rewarded each time. If I didn’t do what I did, I wouldn’t have found my best friend and that love was way more important to my life trajectory than anything else I could have gotten from a marriage. It helped fix the basis of pre-crime, it helped set the stage for Bestinyourgirl and made our friendship more rewarding.
Quite frankly, in New England, I wasn’t going to do much better than that in the millennial age range and judging from the rest of the internet, wasn’t going to do much better in general across the US either.
I, however, personally preferred a meaningful friendship over marriage any day of the week.
I pointed out in a previous post, I’m old, not pathetic. So I may as well point out the pathetic and problematic veneer of marriage and point to a brighter future that the Gen Z kids could cultivate.
NPD, narcissistic personality disorder comes in a variety of flavors. However, your basic bitch version comes from the parable of Narrcisius, the Ancient Greek dude that loved his reflection so much, he drown in the river Styx. Never mind that Styx was supposed to be a shallow river, so he was stupid too. I digress, though.
So, ironically, NPD has to affect the narc the most in order for it to be a personality disorder. it’s an internal need that the narc has to placate in order to be whole that’s adjacent to normal drive. So for instance, you need to adult, pay your bills, ect. Friction that keeps you from achieving these goals can be stressful, however, it’s not NPD because life makes that a necessity. However, being famous for instance isn’t a need, thus it’s NPD.
Another instance, especially the in a looks driven Millennial world, and you can’t really blame them given most, including the celebrities are fuck ugly. However, if you’re trying to date exclusively to attractive men or woman and that causes you friction, then you’re NPD.
you’re lucky enough to be Channing Tatum good looking, and not dating attractive cause you friction, then you’re NPD.
In other words, it’s the ok to not fuck ugly people and doesn’t make you NPD for saying no.
Another Millennial NPD factor is their unnecessary need to fit in and buy the right clothes or other bullshit branded thing to be liked. That’s NPD because it’s causing you unnecessary friction in your life.
If someone doesn’t like you for you, that’s their loss and if the autism brigade like Boomers and Millennials hate you for it, that’s them being malignant narcissists. No one has a right to cause you problems over something as dumb as clothing or a cup of coffee. Shun those people, you’ll be better off.
A good exception to the rule of the above is summed up here. The 3rd Die Hard
John McClane with I hate N**ers. Of course people will be upset, come on, that’s common sense.
Obviously the above will piss people off. However, within the movie’s context, McClane would have been more NPD had he not done as such, because he would have had the deaths of people on his conscious.
Need to always give your opinion to people? You’re NPD. Random strangers do not have to value you or your opinion and that doesn’t make that person a narc for not valuing you one way or the other. Your reaction, in the negative to someone not having much thought you one way or the other does.
The Narc often lacks self reflection, thus it’s hard to change, because doing so would require a deep delve into themselves and looking bad isn’t in their psyche. No, they’re good people, it’s you who are wrong.
What millennials seem to do is what is historically referred to as “marking” a pro wrestling term that used to be used by con men. You would treat the mark in question how they were dressed and attempt to dupe them out of whatever you thought you could get. So going out in $1000 dollar Armani suit, they would expect to be ass kissed by everyone as if they were a celebrity. That’s NPD makes you a narc. Most normal people would treat you accordingly to actions and not clothing.
Words aren’t necessarily NPD, it’s dependent on the overall context of the event. Ted Budy took personal responsibility for his crimes when it was too late and said pornography made him do it. Hate to break it to you, but that’s still a narc thing, because had there been real remorse, he would’ve stopped at one and turned himself in.
Words oftten associated with NPD, as catch all to shortcut explanations, because reading and thinking is too difficult, make for a warm security blanket and a sumg sense of superiority, but none of it is accurate. Hey, those internet gurus with their worthless degrees have to make money somehow, so they throw stupid phrases that a person with NPD could have said, that are not really things related to narcs because they tend to be narcs themselves and need the attention from you worshipping them on the internet.
Quick aside, As a general rule, if the talking head on YouTube seems like a boomer or millennial, they’re probably NPD, ignore them.
Since only the narcissist knows they’re a narcissist for sure, most of these people giving you the advice have their heads up their ass to keep getting your engagement for money.
Like I’ve mentioned before, if you paid for this, you’d have a malpractice suit on your hand. That was mostly about the phonies online that exist just to cause friction.
Here’s a sure fire way to spot a narcissist. Intersectionality with you, in a harmful manner. We’re talking about actual harm, not made up bullshit. So let’s use an actual example of this from my personal life.
When I was 16, I lived in a certain area where I met a 18 year old man and a 25 year old man online and we played cards. A game known as WWF Raw Deal.
The 18 year old was the one we are focused on, because he’s the one in question that caused a ruckus for his need for attention.
Anyways, the 25 year old and I were only friends with him because we felt bad, because no one liked him. He was a textbook millennial. Thought his opinion always mattered, constantly having arguments with people over petty stuff. He, like most millennials, suck at being normal. The average millennial is NPD at minimum, and outright sociopaths in others. NPD would just be an improvement, over the later.
So the 25 year old and I thought we could help him and have him having a better life than he did and boy were we both wrong. Those two ended up breaking up with each other over the 25 year olds, uh, romantic interest let me say and how the 18 year old thought she was ugly. Not the underling fact she was 16 herself when they met.
Hell, knowing these two caused all three of us friction in our lives and was quite possibly one of the dumbest things I ever did in my life. They once had admin privileges on a site called Team Canada Online. A moderately decent Raw Deal/Pro Wrestling forum.
So this prick called AmericanNightmare76 had issues with the three of us spending time together. However it wasn’t because they were hanging out with a 16 year old, rather his own jealousy, since he literally IP banned the entire town over it. So they ended up losing their admin privileges over that and I was banned and then I signed up again to be a righteous prick, because what type of toxic cocksucker takes it out on a whole town?
Never mind the fact that when I moved to Biddeford in 2004, and the owner of the card shop asked how we knew each, the then 27 year old JOKINGLY , told him we met in a juvenile detention center and we fell in love. Of which the store owner of said place then was more interested in why I was in allegedly in juvenile detention, when I wasn’t , over the whole nearly 30 year old man saying he Child molestied me.
Honestly it’s for the best all three of us stopped spending time together as it always resulted in negative bullshit.
Now, in this story we’re talking about the 18 old. He had this friend and the friend in question eventually became a full time WWE wrestler. He was released years ago and it didn’t last long as a stint.However, this has never stopped that former 18 year old, now 41-42ish, from running his trap about it, and with mentioning my name in the context, because I’ve had people who don’t know me, ask if the story was true, years after the fact.
Oddly enough a person with NPD would have run their cocksuckers about how they knew that person before they were famous.
However, if you can’t prove it, it’s irrelevant. For instance a friend of mine I’ve known since 2007 from a MySpace chat has done substantial on a certain social media platform, however, I don’t tend to run my cock sucker about it. I’m proud of him and glad he’s my friend, but what exactly am I hoping to get from such by telling you? The answer is nothing.
Now, I know you’re curious to know, the answer to who the wrestler was in question and if I knew them, and the answer is I won’t tell you, but it might have be them.
I wasn’t friends with the future wrestler in question, I just played Raw Deal against them, potentially and took second place in that respective tournament in 2003. Only Comic Images, the 25 year old and the game shop know for sure. Either way, I didn’t like him then and not a fan now, so it’s a moot point.
However, the former friend in question, was having actual intersectionality with my life by people asking me things that aren’t their business anyways, so he could he get whatever perceived value a mid carder would have. Fuck if I know what that would be.
The reasons we’re former friends is because , of all things, I refused to help him get over in the Indy wrestling of this state. He knew I knew wrestling well and wanted to capitalize on that. He wanted to be my manager, since that’s what he trained in. however I never wanted to be a performer. I can’t stand acting or entertaining people in general, it’s a waste of my time, talents and years of education to be regaled to the back of the bus like Rosa Parks.
Also, the whole aforementioned bullshit of every time the three of us are together, bad shit happens.
However, he got pissed at me. Some of the back and forth between us still exists on the internet, however I’m not going to share it out of the fact it’s still no one’s business and I don’t need him getting attention more than he has. Thankfully he deleted himself from my facebook and I have not seen him since 2013. The 25 year old ended up marrying the 16 year old in her 20s and had kids with her.
I need to make the point though and that is this being textbook NPD. He was driven by his need for stature at the expense of his friends, he caused negative consequences in the lives of people like myself and the former 25 year old.
There’s also the opposite of gaslighting he uses, which is the implementation of false memories esoterica that the internet doesn’t give.
Like he claimed the wrestler in question and I had a match together. A match that he knows never took place, because he autisticly needed a road story to be like “the boys” in the back. I know so, because that’s how he pitched it to me back in 2013/2014 or so, when we were at the 7-11.
The fact he claims the wrestler and I went to school together, which never happened, given the age range between him and I, is a 6 year difference,so he would have graduated long before I was a freshman, for the record I entered into high school in September of 2000.
He knows I’ve been courted for pro wrestling multiple times in my life and I declined each time. I have never stepped foot in a ring. The closest to wrestling I’ve ever gotten was horsing around with friends in childhood. I am, however a fan of wrestling and have historically enjoyed watching it.
So with that out of the way, what’s NPD about it?
So on the DSM spectrum this would type as
Need to associate with high profile people or institutions(Kage note, a wrestler being high profile in his mind. Lmfao!)
Delusions of grandeur, like his constant attempts at working only in Hollywood and his failed attempts over and over again.
Need for validation.
Those are 3 out of the 12 or so criteria. You only need 4 to be considered NPD by a professional. I’m not a professional, so I’m not diagnosing him, however I’m educated enough to spot the problem and have walked away from it.
That is real intersectionality with someone’s lives and multiple people’s to boot. Some narcissistic take faux intersectionality to a new level, just a person working the same job as them triggers them and they don’t want that person around. That’s not real intersectionality. It like saying you have an emotional support celebrity without that celebrity consent. It’s a falsehood and outright mental illness at that. Just existing isn’t a normal persons cause for concern. You have to be harming someone in reality, not just their perceived misgivings.
These are of the utmost importance in explaining now NPD really works. It not pointing out that people are overly sensitive, especially when they are, because most NPD people are overly sensitive themselves, so they’re just projecting themselves on you. Everything these videos tell you, are often just the narc projecting their bullshit onto you.
Now, When I started Bestinyourgirl.com, I had one rule that was the most important of them all, that was, unless necessary, all celebrities were persona non grata. Why? They’re worthless SEO, for one. Too many idiots abuse their names for that.
2nd, they completely irrelevant to a website that’s all about my writing. Some might say that makes me NPD. Does it? If I came into your place and put my feet up without permission or invitation to do so, am I not breaking and entering? Of corse I am, right? So naturally, we’re going to ignore them. Arrogance? Maybe, but what has a single celebrity done of any value in the last 20 years or so? Nothing! they have losers who circle jerk them and call themselves a fan base.
Pre-crime, without tooting my own horn too much, is probably the most brilliant thing anyone has ever come up with and yet, I’m supposed to pretend actors and the ilk are on this level? Lmfao! You pretend for a living and I get shit done for the sake of it. We are not the same.
People will say I’m jealous. Weird for a dude who never even tried his hand at any of it and rejected a majority of things I could have done in the field.
People will say I’m arrogant. Technically true, but merited. I’ve bested more people than most celebrities have fans for my Google rank.
People will say I’m petty and that’s your problem.
All things a narcissistic asshole would say. That’s you projecting on me.
What if I told you that pretending the audience matters is neither narcissistic nor selfless. What if I told you, that no matter how well an act of entertainment goes, I always feel dejected after. What’s more narcissistic? Continuing down that path or shunning it? my answer is continuing down that path is more NPD. Why? Because I’m causing myself friction internally. It doesn’t jibe with who I’m am in my youth and who I am as an adult.
Some might say I’m selfish, people need humor. Doesn’t the world need more doctors, police, firefighters, veterinary technicians though? Is it selfish that at 39 years old, I’ve spent the last 20 years of my life educating the world? Have I done light stuff like reviews, sure, but I’ve done some interesting and thoughtful pieces as well.
Why do I phrase such so arrogantly? For a reason, because not only is that entire statement true, not a single bit of it is NPD. It doesn’t met the criteria for it. Delusion? No, we’re past that stage as my system seems to be relevant. Special treatment seeking? No, because the algorithm I invented makes me meet the criteria for a deity. What’s that criteria? Omnipresent, omnipotent and Omniceinant. why is none of this NPD? Because it doesn’t meet the criteria of a personal plight internally and if it can be proven then my rhetoric is irrelevant.
Not writing for instance gives me more of a personal plight. Would that make me NPD? Absolutely! Ironic that not writing, something inherently not necessary would drive me batshit to not do. Yet the egregiously arrogant statement doesn’t.
Here’s a mild NPD test that you can use to see if your one. Which of these statements is true?
1.) I’m a good person if I stop someone from being a celebrity.
2.) I’m a bad person for not stopping someone from becoming famous?
Answer yes to one and you’re NPD. Why? What right did you have to Garudian another persons life? The answer is none. You had intersectionality in the negative way.
Walk by a narc and not give them preferential treatment, they will try to negatively impact your life. Why? Because they took it personally. Oh nooo! That makes me a narc according to internet videos. Why? Because of a phrase over context is more important to the butt hurt brigade than reason.
Not a single one of those last statements were flattering to me, yet, fuck you! Uh oh, I lacked empathy for the reader. Were you really hurt by that though? No? Didn’t think so. Yet I’m a narc for that too!
Pretty much every mental illness in the DSM is just NPD by different names. Nightmare disorder? That’s NPD in sleep. Why? Because it causes you the disorder. Social anxiety? That’s NPD over neurotic tendencies.
As I’ve pointed out in a video from my 20s about Autism “provided a doctor clears it, it’s ok to be an asshole.”-Kage
Damn it, there I go again, being a narc because I quoted my brilliance and was unsympathetic to a fictional desiese, that I don’t believe is caused by weird nutrition, I don’t believe it exists either.
It’s not the fact, that gaslighting, doesn’t exist. Only weak minded bafoons fall for that. It’s not flying monkeys bs or anything the internet has lead legions of idiots to accept and cause NPD witch hunts. It’s a lot more than videos let on.
Shit, even The Bible got it right by naming pride as a sin, because when it’s counter productive, like not taking personal responsibility for yourself , it’s NPD type of shit.
As a recap, words are irrelevant unless they can or cannot be proven. The narc needs to basically ruin their lives for it to even be NPD. Only they know for sure. Someone telling you you’re wrong isn’t gaslighting, thinking your friends are special to you isn’t narcissistic, just because a rando online or at the store takes issue with it. Applying to any job doesn’t make you NPD because some places only have a Walmart to work, get the gig and shut up and help yourself and other loved ones.
Lastly, fuck these retarded internet gurus that tell you it’s in phrases or other bullshit. They should all be de-monetized and no longer allowed to practice. They too busy using you as their flying monkeys to witch hunt people and be relevant like most wannabes, when the below average brigade that is the general public, don’t have the credibility or credentials to even type you.
I may not be that old, however, I’m still old enough to have seen come pretty cool shit in my lifetime. One of which was seeing Gen X in their attempt at fame. Gen Z should take notes,, because your parents generation did it right when it came to fame.
Never has this song probably been more accurate
So I didn’t grow up where the conditions to aspire to being worthless like most people in my age range apparently. I mean, acting sucked and I found that out the hard way because my lesbian gym teacher had to force her play down our throats at school. No one in my age range could play and instrument, so even trying a band was out of the question. Short of porn and what teenage male wouldn’t have thought of it, Hollywood desires were really lame.
Then along came YouTube in my 20s, which gave way to a whole bunch of autistic nobodies that craved social acceptance and well, entertainment hasn’t been right or worthwhile in decades.
However, while I’ve always been the anti-celebrity guy, even in my youth, there was a time when I found myself impressed with relative unknowns making an attempt at being part of the privacy challenged brigade and that was Gen X.
I know most people have confused me for a Gen X’er 99% of my life and never really got why, however, I don’t make the criteria for more than just being an Xenial at best. So we can rule out relatable aspects making me more accepting here. As a general rule, I don’t have to relate to someone or something to appreciate it or them. It can happen from time to time, but not necessarily the a big factor.
So the internet was in its infancy back in the 90s and analog equipment still ruled. This is important to understand, since a vacuous imbecile couldn’t just share an ignorant opinion and get dozens of likes for it. You had to want it and you had to mean it.
I appreciate their hustle, a drive which I could never relate to back then. I still can’t relate to it, because it is a far better work ethic than my own, as I go for low hanging fruit and prefer it. If you ever seen my sex life, you’d be like “oh he ain’t kidding.”
Live footage of me with anything that I think is beneath me /sarcasm
That’s young 20 somethings, at the time, knew how to take what was historically 30k or more in 1970s equipment and in the 1990s turn it into better than a Misfits recording. They still weren’t perfect, but had I been a boomer executive in Hollywood, I would have been flabbergasted at how people so young with no professional experience could exhibit such a high degree of learning. Remember, this is how Insane Clown Posse and Eminem made their way on to the scene.
Even upwards of 2005, right as YouTube started, I found myself hanging out and listening to the Celtic punk sound of possible flogging mollys or drop kick murphies that could become huge. Too bad that’s when Gen X dropped everything and became family men. While there is nothing wrong with that, I’ve been plagued by the idea that had Gen X managed to figure out social media, the landscape of music would be so much better than it became, which is the complete opposite of how I thought on the 90s of how many Stephen kings could exist if there was a better set up or even better bands than the Beatles.
You have some decent millennial YouTubers out there, still though, nothing out there is quite right, as it should be. Maybe it has to do with being so young and everything was new. Going out late at night and getting home late or other things that helped to increase the times in which I would be exposed to this, which is a small part of it. However, I don’t think it’s the sole reason for all of it.
I wish I still had access to those mix tapes some random Gen X band handed out in the parking lot of Ozzfest, promoting a potential promising rookie band.
Now that Gen Z has had some time and are producing some promising things, it’s kinda changing, but not drastically enough. Maybe some of them need to get their parents to break out their old analog gear and teach them how to utilize it. I know I learned a bit from them, that part of the reason I can mix sounds pretty well, taking an Interest in what they were doing. Could give Gen Z an edge over the talking heads of idiot millennials that failed school, but still need to ADHD clip their way to an opinion that offers nothing. it’s not too late to take it back and move away from the idiocracy that entrainment has become. Threads is filled with some of this, so I know it’s true. Just up to Gen Z to figure out how to do it better.
INTRODUCTION
What can be said about generations that hasn’t already been made up, through random samples, by people who lack a degree in any science, never mind sociology? That is what we’re going to attempt to explore in this essay by doing some real analysis and sorting the chaff from the wheat from someone who has actually attended college and knows how sociology works.
WHAT IS A GENERATION
A generation is defined as a period of twenty years of child births that result in some level of alleged similarity between human beings belonging to this arbitrary system that makes little more sense than the bullshit astrogeology or religion that morons tend to buy into. The idea behind a generation, besides time of birth, is apparently the way of the world at the time someone is born. You know, much like how mars in retrograde impacts gullible people and lunatics use the full moon to blame for their actions or even how some idiots think your magical body energy feels like another generation entirely, unlike Rainman, these people are not idiot savants, they’re just dull. These are the two major things that we’re going to look at and put into perspective in regards to those born into these generations and also what is and isn’t nature vs nurture.
FUCK YEAH, SCIENCE BITCH
It is important to remember that no one cared about generations prior to the baby boomers and that was important to keep track of in regards to social security, whilst Gen X was only slightly monitored by the government, but with little to care about. Mostly this bullshit comes from marketers looking to make sales and helplessly inept people who don’t understand individual people’s psychology, so they hop on the internet and read the first douchenozzle that created a post, confirming their bias and accepted it as fact. If you don’t match their mold, they suffer sever cognitive dissonance and cannot reason why you are the exception, so it is important to note that most idiots giving a fuck about this shit are predominately sensing types in the MBTI, except they don’t accept the MBTI as a fact, since it is theory and a lot of Sensing types despise theory. Instead, they like to go on personal experience, which one does not inviolate. Sadly for them, we’re what you call intellects and that means personal anecdotal evidence doesn’t count as fact. Now, if there was a way to quantify these things as truths, we could start to consider them as potentially having merit. One should not consider anecdotal the same as observational. Observational is that which is discernible by anyone within the world, it isn’t limited to just one person’s experience. The thing with these sensors is that, their precious experience they’re drawing upon, besides being the hallmark of a giant cuckholded racist prick, is that it lacks falsifiability. Science looks for falsifiability in regards to that which it considers in regards to hypothi. An example of falsifiability is all apples are green. Even if all observable apples are indeed green, it cannot be 100% true that there isn’t red apples.
GENERATIONS II-ELECTRIC BOOGALOU
We’re going to be discussing three primary generations, whilst temporarily leaving Gen Z out of this, as we will get to them by the end of the article. Right now, we’re dealing with Baby Boomer, Generation X and Millennials, the three generations with the most “adults” within the workforce.
What years are these generations born into? Good fucking question, because no one has any real data that makes sense in order for it to be a valid truth hood. Let us look at the book, generations, that claimed to have started it all and then extrapolate to that, with the common and more accepted answers that are mindlessly floating all over the internet.
Generations defined Boomers as 1943-1960, Gen X as 1961-1981 and Millennials as 1982-2004. This may seem different from the years you’re used to, since, much like religion, any asshole with an internet connection and an opinion can hop on, write an article at a 4th grade level, back it up with no real data and have it become easily accepted by the masses who eat this claptrap up. In other words, every idiot thinks they’re an expert, much to the chagrin of those of us who have actually put effort into studying. More common versions of the age ranges put Boomers up to 1964, Gen X from 1966-1982 and Millennials from 1983 until about 1996 or so. These age ranges are easier to work with then the book generations, which is a fantastic work of fiction, with its only equal being L.Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics.
Here is a venn diagram of generations with overlaps between them and the same tropes they used over and over again, in regards to the generations:
As you can see, a lot of these are easily due to personality types as opposed to rearing. How does independent thinking come about through rearing alone? How about herd mentality? What type of parent would force their child to be a sheep? While some attribute the school system for attempting to force herd think on the child, clearly from one look on the internet, there are plenty of millennials thinking independently. This is falsifiability in action and because we cannot be sure of any one individual’s upbringing, the only conclusion we can draw from the “evidence” is that either the person was born this way or learned the behavior. If they’re born this way, it is most likely from personality type. For instance, the Gen X personality type is made of four different intuitive on the Myers-Brigg’s with the remainder of Millennials being akin to sensing types. Raring would have very little to do with these traits as they would, without a doubt, have been innate in the individual from birth. Albeit, the MBTI is really more of a system, then a collection of traits, but I do think, the system impacts some traits, but can be altered of course. Sensors do not tend to be comfortable with theory, but some can understand it well. This isn’t really a paradox, since a sensors system, combined with say, a higher intelligence, may confer such ability on the personality. No one really bothered to factor in the personality types in regards to generational discrepancy and I think that plays a major problem in regards to how and why people seem to have overlap and confliction in regards to discussion on the individuals that are sampled.
THE GIST OF IT
Now that we have that out of the way, we need to get into the crux of my article, which is, the MBTI is ultimately responsible for the generational discrepancies and the generations should be turned into personality types and dispense with the rearing bullshit, since very little is discernible from the untrained person, in regards to a person’s background.
Hitherto, we’ve had only someone’s personal testimony to relay on from a second hand source. In other words, no one has bother to check the veracity of the claims in regards to the sampling of people that took part in nonexistent studies. These have never been the backbone of science, nor have they ever contributed to anything outside of the odd whack job article, riddled with typos, written at a 4th grade level and slapped onto the internet with little thought put into the implications of such. Now we have a deeper understanding of how science should work in regards to these types of hypothi, but not a single one on the internet hold ups to snuff. Much like fake news is now abhorrent, we should also look at pseudo-science the same way and extirpate that from our lives as well. If you choose to indulge yourself in such piffle, that is up to you, but do not expect everyone to be peachy keen on your ignorance, nor should it be accepted enmass. Just because you’re unable to think critically, doesn’t mean everyone is like yourself. Solipsism plays a small factor in such atrocities against the thinking mindset and colleges really need to do back to teaching critical thinking, but I digress.
Furthermore, we should demand more from studies if they’re going to claim to be such and ask for and demand more of these people evidence. I was able to, in less than 10 pages, showcase everything wrong with generational bullshit, but these people cannot even add real data to supplement their experience? The generational gaps being reworked to become personality types as opposed to years of birth, as it would make a lot more sense and even help within the workforce. Not everyone needs to be told what to do and some people work better in groups, these are traits that we can observe, but cannot really have much to do with upbringing and while we cannot always appreciate the nuance in the differences between us, we need to learn to accept them as parts of a system and genetic as opposed to things that can be changed. A tiger cannot change his stripes, nor can the thinker repress their thoughts.
Now, I turn my sights to Gen Z, whom are just really getting into adulthood, I don’t know shit from shinola about how they were raised and minus the few dullards on the internet eating tide pods, they are all different individuals and should be seen as such. They are a group of people, made up of different backgrounds, different personality types. Some match the core experience, some are outliers who don’t fit the mold. Some of them are young right now and some are mentally old. Regardless of the pattern, let us learn from our past mistakes and correct course while we can, because our future depends on these kids being heard and given an opportunity to shine and the only way to do that is give them a hand up, because they seem to have quite a hand on what is going on and an ability to bring that message to the world, let us give them the chance no one was willing to give the other generations and hear them out whilst wishing them luck, so they won’t be stuck betwixt a rock and a hard place in their adulthood!
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