When a race stops caring for its young, its extinction is not only imminent but well deserved
The title is a quote from the op-ed article by a teacher called "Go Ahead, Millennials, Destroy Us". It is about the students and children who are rising up against that status quo that says:
burying a few dozen [children] a year has apparently been a price that lots of Americans were willing to pay to hold onto the props of their pathetic role-playing fantasies
- Image source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/opinion/go-ahead-millennials-destroy-us.html *
I particularly like how it says:
As soon as the first N.R.A. A-rated congressman loses an election, other politicians’ deeply held convictions about Second Amendment rights will start rapidly evolving.
and ends with
My message, as an aging Gen X-er to millennials and those coming after them, is: Go get us. Take us down — all those cringing provincials who still think climate change is a hoax, that being transgender is a fad or that “socialism” means purges and re-education camps. Rid the world of all our outmoded opinions, vestigial prejudices and rotten institutions. Gender roles as disfiguring as foot-binding, the moribund and vampiric two-party system, the savage theology of capitalism — rip it all to the ground. I for one can’t wait till we’re gone. I just wish I could live to see the world without us.
The eternal truth of this whole matter is - the times they are a changing.
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Here's a question - what about us Xennials? Those of us who don't fit into GenX and are a little too old to be considered millenials? The ones who had analog childhoods and digital adulthoods? (although to be fair I remember having a Prodigy account when I was 11 and installing AOL 1.0 on the family computer when I was 13).
But you are correct - the times they are a-changing. Honestly I still believe that it starts inside oneself. The fact that I've seen my own beliefs change and evolve gives me hope. I suppose we are meant to be the bridge between GenX and Millenials.