Generation U

Maybe it's me. Perhaps Oprah is right; old white people just have to die. (Yes, she actually said that.) Since I'm not raising my hand and volunteering to fulfill Oprah's desire, I guess I'll just keep doing what I'm doing (trying to enjoy life) until God grants her wish.

In the meantime, it has occurred to me that perhaps the wrong generation is being told to fuck die off. As we witness the greatest generation wane to extinction with the baby boomers joining them in spectacular numbers, the thought that life is sometimes unfair has crossed my mind lately. Personally, I think the wrong generations are dying off.

Let's get one thing on the table: The generation labeled the greatest generation is aptly named, because there will never be a generation as great as that one. They are the ones that bled and died so that you wouldn't be goose-stepping while speaking German ... or Japanese, or perhaps both.

Those that came home sired the baby boomers and I happen to be one of those. Lately, somehow I'm being told that I'm guilty of something. It's a color and I'm also told I'm privileged because of it. Never mind that I came from a poor white (broken) family and worked myself out of it, never mind that I made sacrifices and decisions along the way that sometimes hurt me and sometimes helped me. All I wanted was an opportunity, and while there are those that will argue with me that opportunity comes in different flavors, I can say that America does offer opportunity to everybody, but it doesn't tell them it's opportunity. You have to figure that out by yourself.

Then came the Gen-Xers and things began to change. I'm not going to blame the X'ers for the problems of America, but I am going to say they weren't as repulsed as their parents were at the problems liberalism has wreaked on America.

Millennials  came next and they carried America's journey left ever further, but they understood the limits. They understood that America is a capitalist country and that to succeed they had to embrace a work ethic as their parents before them had done.

But now we're dealing with Generation Z and this generation has some rather funny ideas about things. They're the ones with measurable numbers promoting socialism and ... well, I call it free everything. Somehow, the work to be successful (and eat) paradigm has faded away. They don't only want it, they want it now. The idea of working and saving is an insult to many of them.

I think the nickname they have been given is wrong. Gen-Z may have a cool ring to it, but it's inaccurate. A more appropriate name would be Generation-U and in my opinion (which means nothing) it more accurately describes their mantra.

Gen-U is the term I have in mind. The "U" could mean unhappy and I'm certain many of them are. But the more accurate term would be ungrateful and that's what I mean when I say Gen-U. No, not every person born in the late 1990s and on is ungrateful, but as I view the rioters, arsonist destroyers and looters in the major cities (not to mention Antifa, Chazmania and so on), it becomes obvious that these are the worst of the current generation. I'm not sure what will make them happy (other than free everything and/or political power), but then again I don't really care if they're happy or not. I just care that they're not trying to tear down the system that allows opportunity to be seized.

Generation U. If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit. From my point of view, the glove fits pretty damn good.