Comments on: We Don’t Care About The Millenials! http://pyramidrome.com/2009/liz/we-dont-care-about-the-millenials/ getting better at life Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:48:52 -0800 hourly 1 By: James http://pyramidrome.com/2009/liz/we-dont-care-about-the-millenials/comment-page-1/#comment-15 James Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:56:20 +0000 http://pyramidrome.com/?p=72#comment-15 this is a really interesting drome. I think it's particularly insulting for "our generation" to be chastised for being too reliant on technology, or addicted to TV and video games, and lazy when the only reason for these tendencies is the way the boomers set up the consumer culture that we were born into. There's such a disconnect for me between the people that came of age during the radical 60s, and the people that put Reagan into power, spawned cable television and built an industry out of computers. How can they complain about how different we are when they constructed all of this for us to get hooked on?! But I like that you turn it around at the end of your piece. It's ultimately up to us what we do, what we choose to spend our time and well-earned (or not at all earned) money, and it's certainly true that reality TV is popular because of US. It's funny, my older brother was saying to me today that he thought it was funny that struggling corporations like Radio Shack (who just recently tried to make everybody call it 'The Shack' cause it sounds hipper or something) give a shit about the young demographic because a) there aren't too many of us compared to other markets and b) we don't have any fucking money to spend at 'The Shack'. Yet now that I think about it, it pays to cater to us young'uns, because our boomer elders will fork out the dough for all those digital thingies that we covet so hard. I think ultimately we're a product of the toxic environment our parent's generation set up for us, but now that we've come of age, it's our turn to influence the shape of things to come. Unfortunately, these habits our pretty deeply-ingrained and it'll be hard to kick these patterns. I think that using this potentially distracting medium (internet) for the purpose of questioning that very medium (a la <a href="http://whatsonyourthing.com" rel="nofollow">what's on your thing</a>) is a good first step for us to tackle these issues. we can work within this fucked up system. WE CAN OVERCOME this is a really interesting drome.
I think it’s particularly insulting for “our generation” to be chastised for being too reliant on technology, or addicted to TV and video games, and lazy when the only reason for these tendencies is the way the boomers set up the consumer culture that we were born into. There’s such a disconnect for me between the people that came of age during the radical 60s, and the people that put Reagan into power, spawned cable television and built an industry out of computers. How can they complain about how different we are when they constructed all of this for us to get hooked on?!

But I like that you turn it around at the end of your piece. It’s ultimately up to us what we do, what we choose to spend our time and well-earned (or not at all earned) money, and it’s certainly true that reality TV is popular because of US.

It’s funny, my older brother was saying to me today that he thought it was funny that struggling corporations like Radio Shack (who just recently tried to make everybody call it ‘The Shack’ cause it sounds hipper or something) give a shit about the young demographic because a) there aren’t too many of us compared to other markets and b) we don’t have any fucking money to spend at ‘The Shack’. Yet now that I think about it, it pays to cater to us young’uns, because our boomer elders will fork out the dough for all those digital thingies that we covet so hard.

I think ultimately we’re a product of the toxic environment our parent’s generation set up for us, but now that we’ve come of age, it’s our turn to influence the shape of things to come. Unfortunately, these habits our pretty deeply-ingrained and it’ll be hard to kick these patterns. I think that using this potentially distracting medium (internet) for the purpose of questioning that very medium (a la what’s on your thing) is a good first step for us to tackle these issues. we can work within this fucked up system. WE CAN OVERCOME

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