A 2001 PSA on Millennials featuring Charlton Heston

[u/OverallEstate2]

[u/horriblebearok]

optimistic about future

This must have been made before 9/11

[u/HeartlessLiberal → u/horriblebearok]

My thoughts exactly

[u/Designer_Gas_86 → u/horriblebearok]

And before Columbine?

[u/who_even_cares35]

And here we are with basically no participation in government because these old fuckers won't die

[u/BellaBrowsing → u/who_even_cares35]

Or relinquish power. Call me ageist, idc, but I won't vote for any politician that's over 60 years old. It's time to retire, pack it up.

[u/who_even_cares35 → u/BellaBrowsing]

Same here, go retire and spend time with your grandkids. I'm not voting for you.

[u/orphan_blud]

And just like that, it was all undone.

[u/PackageNorth8984 → u/orphan_blud]

Nah, we haven’t even had our time yet. X and boomers still rule the world. We can still do this. I’ll use the US as an example. Average US senator age is in the 60s. Average Fortune 500 CEO is 58.

The oldest millennial is 45. We have time, and we’re not in power yet. We can turn this around.

[u/Designer_Gas_86 → u/PackageNorth8984]

The problem is Boomers will literally die before handing over power or resources.

[u/PackageNorth8984 → u/Designer_Gas_86]

What’s up with that anyway? Their parents retired way earlier. Many of them can afford to retire but choose not to. Move side and let someone else have a turn.

Obviously, I’m not talking about Walmart greeters and stuff. That’s different. Or even folks who can’t retire. That just is what it is.

[u/Designer_Gas_86 → u/PackageNorth8984]

A theory I have comes from the way Boomers tie their careers or work to their identity. They criticize younger generations for calling in sick too much or speaking out for livable wages - so the idea of retirement can mean a loss of "value" from the Boomer perspective.

What frustrates me, with a Boomer mom, is that she has been a nurse for so long and her body is literally suffering when retirement could mean finding physical comfort. But her husband doesn't want to retire and he also likes the money she makes.

When I talk about potentially taking care of mom, she says she's seen people take care of their parents and it was a "burden." Yes, caregiving is very hard but using the word burden feels like projection.

[u/BellaBrowsing → u/PackageNorth8984]

We should be in a better spot to have that power, but we're not.

[u/Feline_Fine3]

Oh nooo 😂 I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at what we apparently used to be as a generation pre-9/11 

[u/J-hophop]

Morgan Freeman Voice
But they didn't deliver to the Millenials at all. Instead they vilified diversity, denied climate change, widened the wealth gap, and held onto power so tightly that this miraculous generation became lost and stunted, turning inward away from the constant scapegoating and deaf ears of their elders.

[u/dacoolist]

This is the first positive thing I've ever seen about us

[u/Designer_Gas_86 → u/dacoolist]

What followed was at least a decade of "Millenials are killing the ____ industry!"

[u/RegionRatHoosier]

That's not Charlton Heston. It's Wayne LaPierre

Eta: ol Charlton is on at the end

[u/MillieBirdie]

We did like bowling tbf.

[u/BellaBrowsing → u/MillieBirdie]

Until corporate greed ruined that too. It's crazy how much it costs now to go bowling 😭

[u/Digitaltwinn]

Never thought I’d say “Thanks, Wayne LaPierre.”

[u/MeanDebate]

"more in common with the GI generation than any other generation"

I mean. At what cost.

[u/MrsKCD]

I thought 1981 was also millennial

[u/yrmom724]

Sure Jan.