Are millennials the greatest generation so far?

[MarkusSweden]

People born between 1982-2000, so called millennials, seem to be well educated, they know about the man made climate change, they know that all people are equal no matter what color or religion.

They are up to date with the post modern society. They embrace equal rights between men and women by supporting feminism. In short they are politically aware. I try to be up to date with politics as well but I constantly fail and fall for those crazy populist ideas which I now know is totally wrong(I will not do that mistake again).

Millennials seem to intuitively understand the world, humans, politics. They are without prejudice and fight for the good. Social justice warriors is a stupid label, because they only strive for a better world for all of us. The SJW-label is just an attempt to discredit the brave millennials for doing the right things. 

Some of their deeds might be green, but remember, they are still young, plenty of time to get to yellow and turquoise. And green is not bad at all.

People born after 2000 or before 1982 might be great as well, but maybe not as great as the brilliant millennials. 

Are the millennials the pinnacle of all generations?

Elaborate.

Edited September 3, 2018 by MarkusSweden

[Shadowraix]

I really don't like lumping people into overarching labels, but I think it just has to do with neuroplasticity.

The SJW label was for those who had good causes, but always executed it in a poor and forceful fashion. But it has since been used as some cop out to discredit in recent time. Mostly comes from not liking opposition and/or assumptions about the ideas and intentions of a person.

But as you get older neuroplasticity goes down and you become less receptive to new ideas. Of course you can do various things to retain your receptiveness. Plenty of older people are very receptive to new ideas.

I also think it has to be that millennials in a general sense has bought less and less into very rigid cultural norms like conservative christian life. Linkin Park - Numb reminds me a lot of that. 

I'm pretty sure the year start for Gen Z is 1993/1995 to 2014 or something like that. Millennials are starting to fully integrate into the workplace and political space while Gen Z are just beginning/exiting college and I do wonder how this plays out. We are one of the first groups to grow up with computer technology being very prominent in our lives so we from the get go have access to way more information growing up. 

But yes I do think in general millennials are going to be a part of a huge transition. As a gen Z myself I know I am going to see a lot of big names pass away in my time and with them gone it'll be interesting how all these big name innovation companies change how we live especially as millennials rise into power. I think there is definitely some sorting out to do still in finding a balance in how to improve the world. (Forcing people to speak in a certain way is definitely counter intuitive)

[Shadowraix]

3 hours ago, Caterpillar said:

Equal rights are cool but feminism is only about females. If there was a movement called equalism I would join it.

Female perspective, but yeah I get your criticism.

There is a type of equalism and that is called egalitarianism.

[Shadowraix]

1 hour ago, Etherial Cat said:

Feminism is a good word. It is about knocking down the inequalities targeting exclusively females. I don't think it is wrong to use this semantic, despite the fact that its turning off a lot of man who tends to see it as a female supremacist ideology. If you see it as such, you might want to inform yourself more on the topic.  

Being shy about it would prove the point that the female voice is not to be heard with comfort in society... Do we really want that?

I don't think it really has to do with being 'informed' per se but making clear distinction between the literary word and the current political climate. Radicalists essentially hijacked the feminist movement to tilt the seesaw for power. And a political movement is only as good as its people and takes no note for literary definitions. So you can say they aren't feminists but such linguistics doesn't change the political climate.

[Shadowraix]

30 minutes ago, Etherial Cat said:

What about not putting every feminist in the same bucket, since as you said it yourself well, feminism can be hijacked"?

Isn't this position itself as radical as the radicalist you're complaining about?

When you say a political movement is only as good as its people, I totally agree with you. But honestly, why hate on feminism for its excess when most ideologies are suffering from the same affliction?

 

This ultimately comes down to intent by language against interpretation of language.

I think most people know the literary definition is noble and I'm not going to deny having called feminism trash, but in that vagueness I mean its current political state is awful.

People hate on radicals of every movement. (The radical side of feminism got labeled as feminazis ans that became a more definitive term to represent the section they are talking about which can help avoid the interpretation of generalizing)

The current attention of the radicalism I think is due to figures like Anita Sarkeesian which uprises journalism and sometimes the start of whole YouTube channels around the criticism of the arguments being made. The attention grew and grew until it hit its peak. From what I have seen, its died down a lot. I don't see nearly as much content on say Anita as I used to or feminism in general.

Edited September 3, 2018 by Shadowraix