{"id":2324,"date":"2013-09-14T09:56:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T15:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2013-09-14T09:56:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T15:56:18","slug":"10-reasons-millennials-are-screwed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2013\/09\/10-reasons-millennials-are-screwed.html","title":{"rendered":"10 reasons millennials are screwed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

There\u2019s an interesting article up at Salon<\/a> right now. The gist is that boomers and Gen-Xers love to think they understand the Millennial generation. However, there are a few things the two previous generations may have wrong:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026if there is one claim about the Millennial generation that is truly absurd, it is the notion that they are entitled, spoiled and pampered. Some baby boomers and Gen-X members (especially boomers) insist that Millennials don\u2019t want to pay their dues and expect everything handed to them on a silver platter, but Millennials on the whole are the polar opposite of entitled or spoiled.<\/p>\n

Millennials\u2014those born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s\/early 2000s\u2014in the United States inherited a country that is broken in many respects. From the worst economy in 80 years to a post-9\/11 surveillance state to a dysfunctional healthcare system, Millennials have been given a raw deal. And fighting to get the country back on track will be an enormous task for them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m pretty much dead center of Gen-X by age, although when I took the recent \u201cHow Millennial Are You?\u201d<\/a> quiz at Pew Research Center, I came out 74% Millennial \u2013 strange given the fact that I don\u2019t have a tattoo or any body piercing (yes, that\u2019s on the quiz).<\/p>\n

I do think that our inability to understand one another across age ranges can be a threat to community, and can cause relationship problems, especially within the family system. I am still working hard to try to stay pliable, growing, progressing as a person, and I think this, in part, involves an attempt to develop a better understanding of subsequent generations; not in order to shape them, change them, manipulate them, market to them, or save them, but to love them well.<\/p>\n

My kids are on the tail end of the Millennial generation. I have really come to love this cohort. I do think it\u2019s important that we learn to tell the truth about the world we are handing to them. They do face a lot of challenges as a generation, some that we may not even fully grasp as of yet.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a quick list of the 10 Reasons. What do you think of them? The article itself<\/a> contains much more detail under each of the ten \u2013 I recommend reading it. I\u2019m trying to reserve judgment right now and just listen and learn.<\/p>\n

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  1. A dying middle class<\/li>\n
  2. The financial crash of September 2008<\/li>\n
  3. Crushing student loan debt<\/li>\n
  4. The broken healthcare system<\/li>\n
  5. The post 9\/11 surveillance state<\/li>\n
  6. Endless war<\/li>\n
  7. Painfully low interest rates<\/li>\n
  8. Bailouts and the federal deficit<\/li>\n
  9. The George W. Bush administration<\/li>\n
  10. Unlikely home ownership<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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