re: Are the Millenials Ruining Sports Message Boards?

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Which, once again, goes to prove why general assumptions of an entire generation of people are insanely idiotic.

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Eh. There is pretty clear social data on shifting values. It all builds on each other. A bunch of people went off to war and when they got back they fricked like rabbits. That made the Baby Boomers. Then then had kids. Then their kids had kids. And so on and so forth. Until there is another societal transformation that's as unifying as WW2, then each generations will be less contrasted, but when you take a poll of Generation X and 85% answer one way and then 85% another, it only makes sense.

And I do think that the Internet and cell phones might be something almost as significant as WW2 was. Kids born from 2000 onwards don't know what it's like to go more than 5 hours with contact to the entire planet. They didn't run around their neighborhoods without snapchatting the entire event.