re: Why does this generation lack creativity?

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Still stupid. Driven people will be driven. People still make mistakes and learn from them. You can't tell me people living at home now after graduating is worse than hippie communes and shite. It is just a different form. The economy is different. I mean I got an engineering degree. I do not vote democrat, nor will I ever. There are still young, driven, entrepreneurs all around us. One of my best friends never went to college, joined the Air Force as a fire fighter, came down to college station and partied like a maniac, and didn't go to school, and now owns and operates a multi-million dollar SEO company. He is 24. I do know some people that fricked up, did too many drugs, were lazy and entitled, and have a terrible attitude and mindset towards life. Those people have always been around. Their parents are the same way. Let me ask you this, are your kids going to be entitled? I doubt it.

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Big big difference.

In my day the hippies were, BY FAR, the minority. Now, did they get a disproportionate about of coverage by the press and have they received a disproportionate amount of favorable revisionist history coverage by the media today ... yes. But hippies and peace-nics, (as we called them), the anti-Americans, anti-U.S., anti-military were smelly, nasty and pretty much useless and BY FAR the minority.

These days the real achievers are the minority and the entitlement crowd, the anti U.S., anti-military, anti-elders crowd is the majority among young people.

My generation, and the generation before mine and the one before theirs, we built the country to the richest, most powerful, in the world .... probably in the history of the world.

This current generation will tear it down in one generation. China will surpass us in everything before most of this current generation turns 40 so I am giving the twenty-something year olds roughly twenty years to completely ruin everything. And I'll be right, as usual. It's a shame really.