One of the problems of the world today is that people do not know how to take responsibility. Everyone blames everyone else but for their own problems. With all of the blaming going on in this world for all of its problems who should be blamed the most? Here are the results from last month's poll: Which generation is to blame for most of our problems? This data was collected from three different websites.
- 8% said The Baby Builders, WWIers, (67-100 years old).
- 48% said The Baby Boomers, Post-WWII (45-67 years old).
- 6% said Generation X, Brat Pack (23-44 years old).
- 2% said Generation Y, ADHD Club (0-22 years old).
- 17% said Goes back even before all of these.
- 19% said The worst is yet to come.
Sure, there have problems in this world since the day that man was created. So the 17% who said it goes back before all of the other choices are correct but that is ancient history. Things could have and should have been able to change since then But they haven't. Who is to blame?
It was refreshing to see that the younger generation (Y) is not being blamed. Too many times the phrase what is wrong with the kids these days is used. Although there is something seriously wrong the kids these kids. They are abused and spoiled at the same time. They feel they deserve the world yet feel depressed as well. They have their future ahead of them but they see no future for themselves. They are a confused generation. But maybe it's not really their fault. Oh, they need to grow up and realize that they are the ones who control their destiny. But there is truth to the fact that they were messed up before they came around. As Billy Joel sang in the 80's (except his idea is misguiding), they didn't start the fire. The world had been messed up for a while. But it seems like things have been getting worse and worse over recent times.
The Baby Builders are not the ones to put most of the blame on. They lived through some horrible times. They went through two World Wars. They lived through the worst economic depression on record. But in all of this they held on to their morals. They kept their family values and in return were able to hold on to their families. They valued work and knew that recreation was in the spare time. Yes, they had their problems as well. They lived through two World Wars because they started them or at least were unable to stop them due to apathy. They were not highly educated and therefore ruined the environment without knowing the effects.
Are the Baby Boomers are to blame for most of the problems? Well, they brought in civil rights. They got the world to look at themselves a different way. They started recycling and other programs that would take stress off mother earth. But they had problems. Their songs told of the these problems. If you can't be with the one you love, then love the one you're with. Sex, drugs, rock n' roll. Woodstock. Make love, not war. But at the same time they were changing the values of marriage. Not only make love, not war, but the idea of free love came around. People became very promiscuous. They got high and "fell in love". They tried to hide their lifestyles by getting abortion to be legalized so they wouldn't have to face their consequence. Then by the time they were 30 they realized to afford some of their lifestyles they needed to get real jobs and stop with the abuse of drugs. When they came down from their highs they realized the person they fell in love with is not the person they love. Divorce rates went to the highest levels in history. Family values were starting to be destroyed. God and country became unreal. So unreal, prayer in school was stopped. God was not allowed to be taught anymore in public schools. And in return moral values were questioned and definitions of the American dream were changed.
Generation X is not to take full blame for this mess. Their main problem is they do not know how to be leaders. Their parents raised them based on books and not reality. Their butts were spared the rod and they became spoiled, hence the term Brat Pack. But their parents gave them the wrong values. Life didn't make sense anymore without values. All they started to care about was having fun. They couldn't make any connections with their parents. And because of this separation they don't know how to be parents because their own parents wanted to be their friends instead of being disciplinarians. If their children have problems they don't know how to deal with it so they take them to a doctor and them labeled as ADHD and give them drugs to feel and act normal. Heavy Metal and Rap ruled because it was a way to show their anger against their parents. But they do have their share of problems. They have disregarded the optimism of making a better world that their parents offered. They don't know how to keep commitments. Now the divorce rate is sky high. It's not as high as it was ten years ago but that is because this generation decided that marriage is not needed. The idea of values is lost since they don't know who God is.
No, the answer is the Baby Boomers. Although perhaps the worst is yet to come.
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