For quite some time, I’ve urged (and occasionally tweaked) the Slackoisie to rise up from their gutter and overcome their parents’ well-intended mistakes to make something of their wasted narcissistic lives. But I never said it as well as this.
From your baby boomer parents, we apologize for misleading you and handing you a world that sucks. Wrong though we may be, you can either whine about your miserable life or do something to make it better. Your choice.
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That was very good. He’s got a genuinely great wit; pulling off what most fall on their face attempting.
I couldn’t help but think about how many parents in the audience must have been squirming and shooting laser beams at him as he took them down. The classic helicopter parents engaged in “the great race”, etc.
Thanks for sharing that.
“That 4 Jews pushed through this unconstitutional Bill is an indication of how Jewry has entirely seized control of Capitol Hill, subjugating America to the anti-Christ religion and agenda of Judaism.”
The Bill, “H.R. 4133: United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012,” legally binds America to a “Jewish” state…with Jewry’s ink dripping its agenda from start to finish of the legislation.
– THIS UNCONSTITUTIONAL LEGISLATION passed under a procedure called “suspension of the rules”
– This is the first time in history that Congress committed America to the racial and religious makeup of a foreign state.
– Any peace settlement would be contingent on Christian and Muslim Palestinians recognizing Israel as a “Jewish” state relegating themselves to 2nd class citizens
– Israel would then be exempt from its ongoing violations of international humanitarian law and future crimes against humanity and related war crimes.
– Only Ron Paul (and Joe Donnelly) stood up against the ongoing Judaic infiltration of legislative polity
– Ron Paul reminds us that the Constitution prohibits the establishment of any particular religion in the US.
WHO THEN CAN DENY that Congress has made a pact with the devil?
WHO THEN CAN DENY that Congress is now in league with the anti-Christ himself?
It’s always good remember that there are complete psychos out there. Thanks for the reminder, and hope the gamma rays don’t get through your tin foil hat.
Sometimes you are just plain cruel. Tin foil is almost impossible to find and aluminum foil works much better anyway.
“From your baby boomer parents, we apologize for misleading you and handing you a world that sucks. “
No you don’t.
Some more than others.
I sent a link to the video to my 26-y/o son, now working in LA. He’d seen it, but reported an amusing observation.
His friends from the East Coast were all, “Right on! Tell it like it is!”
His friends from the West Coast were appalled at the crassness of the speaker and found him unspeakably cruel.
Fascinating.
Colanders work the best, especially if you hook a few screen door springs to the holes.
Like I used to tell my parents, when they asked why “I have to act like that”: I blame your genes. Or maybe it’s bad parenting… I don’t know.
[Then they switched to a language we kids couldn’t understand. Probably discussing how much it would cost to send me to boarding school.]
Anyway, how silly is it for one generation to complain about the next? If they’re as bad as you say, then whose fault is that?
Blame is for kids. What are you going to do about it?
“you can either whine about your miserable life or do something to make it better. Your choice.”
That’s a false choice. It’s entirely possible to both complain about the world that sucks while also working to make it better.
I think the people who are responsible for creating the crappy system are afraid of being held accountable for it. If I shot you on the leg, you’d almost certainly seek medical attention, but you’d also seek my prosecution, and telling you that you have to choose between dwelling on my guilt or going to physical therapy is absurd. Of course you can do both.
People who use phrases like “Generation Whine” are just trying to deflect attention from their own failures and responsibility. Not just because they want to avoid the blame and admission of guilt, but because they want to continue to reap their ill gotten gains.
The Emory professor who gave a commencement speech a few years ago comes to mind. Commenting on the terrible job market, she told graduates they needed to learn to become “givers” instead of “takers,” and move to Kansas and work for the small town folk. I doubt at the next faculty meeting she said “We need to become givers instead of takers as well, accept salary freezes or even cuts if necessary in order to turn back escalating tuition. We may even need to reduce enrollment to maintain high academic standards and decrease the over supply of lawyers, and sure that might mean reducing faculty head count, but some of us will just have to move to Kansas and seek work there.”
The younger generations are doing a lot to make the world better, at least relative to their ability to create change. And yet the older generations, with the wealth and influence to actually fix things refuse to do so, actively work to make the world worse, and then complain that the younger folk aren’t solving the world’s problems fast enough.
Look, you can either whine about the younger generation, or you can help us to make things better. Your choice.
I like this comment. And that’s coming from a Gen Xer (I guess, though it depends on how you slice it; born ’63)(
It’s the same old whine: Why can’t you old people fix it for us. We’re too helpless. We’re too pathetic. You did it so you should fix it, all while they sit in their mommy’s basement on the couch eating cheetos and feeling bad for themselves.
LST doesn’t have any official power or authority, so yeah, we do actually need the old people (ABA, DoE, FTC) to participate in the process just a little bit.
They’re not “old people” Bl1y. This is part of your youthful myopia, and why your whine goes unheard. These are the “official people” who behave like official people always have. Old people hate these self-aggrandizing mutts, whose only purpose in life is sustain their old self-importance. We’ve been fighting these types of people our whole lives. Didn’t you realize this?
If you think it’s official power that will help, then you’ve got no chance at all. You just want to be one of them, and when you put on the official hat, you’ll do the same thing they do. That’s how official people are.
Fighting them? Or sitting in your arm chairs saying to each other “that’s bad, someone ought to stop that,” because us younger folk definitely aren’t seeing the older folk accomplishing much. If you are fighting it doesn’t look like you’re doing a very good job.
Geez, that’s harsh. So we’re not fighting you battles well enough to please you young folk? Bummer. We are just awful rotton old folks not doing a very good job of making your world a happy place.
How old were you when your mommy stopped chewing your food for you?
Can you point to an example of the older generation of lawyers fighting to improve legal education and practice?
Nothing. Sometimes the only winning move is not to play.
It helps to recognize self-inflicted problems. Evil may triumph when good men do nothing, but also when they lack the ability to sit quietly in a room alone.
It’s been like pulling teeth to get you to finally come out with your “big issue” that we should all fight over. Before I answer your question, however, there is a more important point to make. Do you think some innocent guy on death row thinks the biggest issue in the law is whether you got value for your law school dollar? Do you seriously think your personal pet peeve is the center of the legal universe? Do you not recognize the entitlement inherent in believing your concerns should be everyone’s concerns, that we should all be fighting to fix your problem?
And yet, some are.
Now, to your answer: Paul Campos, Jim Chen, Bill Henderson, Paul Lippe, me. Now a question for you: Do you think the rest of the world exists solely to fight your personal battles?
You underestimate yourself.
I’m pretty sure the issue of legal education was on topic with your post. It’s on a law blog, there’s a video from a graduation speech, and you talk about young folk complaining about the crappy world they’ve entered. There are of course thousands of other important issues, but something like the capital defense doesn’t really seem on point.
Had I asked what your generation had done to improve legal education on one of your posts about police abuse, then I’d think you’d have a good point, but on a post about the world recent grads are facing? Pretty sure I was on topic.
As to Campos et al, there are some older attorneys and professors concerned with legal education reform. But my point was that very few people are “fighting” to do anything.
Plenty of professors will acknowledge that there are problems, then they won’t make a peep when the school gets its annual tuition hike and unemployment of their graduates hits double digits. Plenty of older attorneys will complain that recent grads aren’t practice ready, but how many have done anything to try to reform law school curricula? How many have decided to cut their profitability a little bit to mentor and train a recent graduate?
The post is about young people breaking away from their culture narcissism and entitlement and making something of themselves. Your issue is certainly within the very broad framework of the post. Your expectation that it’s the core, and therefore ought to be the focus of everyone who came before you, who have done an lousy job of paving your way, is misguided.
I know what your point is. I’m trying to tell you something that you refuse to hear. Stop waiting for someone else to fight your battles and make your life happy. It’s not going to happen. You’re not special. So either seize control and responsibility for your own life or get used to misery, because you’re going to have a life of it.
You are right. No one else, young or old, is fighting to the death for your happiness. You are your only hope. That’s the only option left for you, no matter how much you whine or how long you argue, or even how right you are. So what if you’re right? It’s still either you or no one, so do something about it.