I was scrolling through Facebook yesterday and I came across this:

I can imagine that world.  It’s the world we live in.  The one that operates in a monetary system, where you need money to do anything.

We elect a government to manage the country because otherwise it would be anarchy.  So it only makes sense that we look to that government to solve the problems that we face as a society.  Since everything operates in terms of dollars because of the aforementioned monetary system, governments come up with budgets for each issue.

Then it dawned on me…

Facebook has been taken over by old men for the sole purpose of complaining about the generation who created Facebook.

Memes like these are prevalent on FB.  It’s just boomers who have become their parents complaining about Millennials.  They make fun of “man-buns” when they themselves wore their hair in ponytails if it were long.  A man bun is just a ponytail not pulled all the way through.  Maybe that’s why they hate it because they view us as lazy, just like their parents viewed them.

They call us soft, but they were thought to be soft because they didn’t fight in the Great War or WW2.  The truth of the matter is that there is never not war.  There are always brave young men and women risking it all to fight for their country, and although the wars and the battles within the wars are all different, the risk and the fight is the same.

I have grown wary of Baby Boomers talking about politics and “the good old days.”  Your “good old days” is what’s led us to the current situation that we’re in, where the oceans are filled with plastic and people with mental illnesses have heroin addictions.  You’ve had decades upon decades of the power to affect change and now the planet is heating up and you don’t understand that taxing heavy polluters and rewarding those who go green is one viable strategy to do deal with climate change.

It’s called incentivizing, like when you give someone incentive to act in a way that you desire.

But for you Boomer it’s just about how much money you have in your pocket.

You are individualistic.

Millennial’s view society as communal.  We all have a responsibility to one another.

You went from using brown paper bags for your groceries to plastic bags because they were cheaper.  Then Millennial’s came a long and told you that your parent’s had it right with the paper bags.  You’ve had your chance Boomers, and you squandered it.

Hush up and let us get down to fixing your messes.