The Observation Deck

With the health and wellness of many Lakewood's millennials at risk, should the new Lakewood foundation consider partnering with Millennial International?

WARNING: This video could bring you to tears.
Make sure your adult children are not in the room when viewing.

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Corrected link. And thanks Brian for bringing this anguishing situation to my attention. As the father of two millennials, it's gratifying to know that there's help out there....

Big OOPS - I goofed!

I clicked somewhere and lost the Millennial International video and got a Hilary video in its place.

If this caused a permanent error, would someone please re-post that Millennial video? It was awesome.

My apologies, and Thanks.

This video is invaluable. My kids are Post-Millenial = Gen Z. In my continuing effort to provide high-quality parenting, I've sent them this video as a cautionary tale.

Apparently this is funnier above a certain age, maybe?

At 38, for what it's worth, it seems pretty tedious and strained. I wasn't offended, just bored. I suppose that it might come a little closer to working if "millennial" were substituted with "hipster;" I think the latter identity is a much closer match to what this video is attempting to caricature.

Believe it or not, there's considerably more variety among people born after 1980 than is immediately evident from e.g. Newsweek articles, or a recent presidential candidate's interpretation of their lives.

mjkuhns wrote:Apparently this is funnier above a certain age, maybe?

At 38, for what it's worth, it seems pretty tedious and strained. I wasn't offended, just bored. I suppose that it might come a little closer to working if "millennial" were substituted with "hipster;" I think the latter identity is a much closer match to what this video is attempting to caricature.

Believe it or not, there's considerably more variety among people born after 1980 than is immediately evident from e.g. Newsweek articles, or a recent presidential candidate's interpretation of their lives.

Fair enough, good points well-made. My kids will probably have the same reaction, communicated with an eye-roll or simple ambivalence, which is well within the expectations of my job description. Some of us older folks and our humor...

In the interests of good sportsmanship, here's a generational satire from a few years ago, which struck me as wonderfully apt and entertaining. (Aimed more or less at my own age group, i.e. the border region of Generation X and Millennials.)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/video/sketch ... tml?ref=gs

It won't surprise me at all if the appeal, here, is equally lost on anyone more than a few years older or younger than me.

I'm 52, and I find the impugning of entire generations ridiculous. Every generation has been maligned by the one before. In the 60s my brothers were told that superior and more disciplined Russians were set to unseat civilization and clean their clocks. When I graduated in 82 I was told my lazy generation was about to be upended by the more studious and industrious Japanese society. In a time where people are being segmented and pitted against each other everywhere you look, it's tired, unoriginal, and unfunny.

Paul Schrimpf wrote:When I graduated in 82 I was told my lazy generation was about to be upended by the more studious and industrious Japanese society.

Boy do I remember this. We had to study more, and definitely go to year-round schooling, just to have a hope of keeping up. The Japanese were on their way to owning the whole country.

Then sometime in my late teens, Japan's economy plateaued and everyone seemed to forget the whole thing and move on.

Paul Schrimpf wrote:I'm 52, and I find the impugning of entire generations ridiculous. Every generation has been maligned by the one before. In the 60s my brothers were told that superior and more disciplined Russians were set to unseat civilization and clean their clocks. When I graduated in 82 I was told my lazy generation was about to be upended by the more studious and industrious Japanese society. In a time where people are being segmented and pitted against each other everywhere you look, it's tired, unoriginal, and unfunny.

It's a comedic sketch.
It's not an affront to humanity.

m buckley wrote:

Paul Schrimpf wrote:I'm 52, and I find the impugning of entire generations ridiculous. Every generation has been maligned by the one before. In the 60s my brothers were told that superior and more disciplined Russians were set to unseat civilization and clean their clocks. When I graduated in 82 I was told my lazy generation was about to be upended by the more studious and industrious Japanese society. In a time where people are being segmented and pitted against each other everywhere you look, it's tired, unoriginal, and unfunny.

It's a comedic sketch.
It's not an affront to humanity.

Mr. Schrimpf,

My sense of humor finds the sketch funny, but I don't think it impugns an entire generation.

Rather, I was impugning Team Summers. Here is why.

We live in a paradox of ever changing ideas, thought and expression of thought and ideas that at some level do not really "change."

The paradox of the "Millennial International" spoof is that, like all "sweeping generalizations"---it is not true.

It is Team Summers that clearly pits the "rich" and Lakewood "millennials" against our elderly and our most vulnerable, i.e. the "poor".

For example, while planning to demise of the hospital (our largest charity) and privatization of public money to be controlled by his "rich" elitist club members, Summers excluded the "others" from the process entirely---He did not create a "Healthcare Task Force" to plan and analyze the hospital in public.

Rather, Summers and his cronies created the "Active Living and Recreation Task Force" while he hid what was happening in the secret club meetings---the task force was created to pursue the now "privatized" money taken from charitable healthcare which will likely be diverted to flower lined bike trails and recreation assets that favor the "rich" and "millennials."