The "Chosen Generation"

[Anonymous]

I was being ironic.

However, TVs and computers don’t help, and the children certainly play less outside than they used to.

[Anonymous]

SamBee wrote:

I was being ironic.

However, TVs and computers don’t help, and the children certainly play less outside than they used to.

Ya, my apologies. I read that I I usually here it in conversations.

It is true, I strive to see all the points of view I can. It is true that a shift is occurring. I think more outside time would be a good thing. I also see that from a survival point of view in the current economy those strengths may be well what saves us.

They we’re burn into a situation beyond there control and they just adapted and made use if what was avoidable to them.

This disadvantage is also a unique advantage for them. Being able to multi task communication with several people at once as per regular practice. Being able to take constant feedback from peers that would make many generations wince.

As they learn to brand themselves in an increasingly global world online(most jobs require and only accept online applications) to stand out with their own persons and identity.

Working more flexible hours at home but at hours that would seem wincing to previous generations.

The disadvantages have their own advantages and HR departments are begging to notice, discover and make use of them.

Growing up from day 1 in a global always on economy that growing increasing crowded as the world becomes more interconnected and crowded will change the generation that grew up with it in expected and unexpected ways. I think we are just seeing a result of a situation they find themselves much like baby boomers did with Vietnam war.

Only this is the economy they grew up in on day 1. It’s not going to reverse so they need to adapt even if they don’t know or phrase it as adapting. Strengths and weaknesses. Every generation has their own just like individuals.

[Anonymous]

Don’t worry FC, it’s our British sense of humour. Too dry for our own good.

[Anonymous]

‘Scuse the digression ’twill become relevant.

Something that continually makes me laugh on Youtube is people

complaining about current music, and saying how much better it was in their day. You get people saying how great the nineties were (or even early 2000s), and then someone says the eighties were better, and so on

til we reach the fifties! My dad couldn’t stand any kind of rock or pop,

and that includes the Beatles. Wrong generation. (A lot of the music in

the eighties was horrible at the time, and mostly thankfully

forgotten.)

And same thing here, every generation moans about the last one and the

next one. The church is the same. There’s a lot going on just now with

the up and coming generation which isn’t good, and that should be

addressed. However the previous generations to mine in the twentieth

century came up with delights such as World War, potential nuclear

holocaust, apartheid, prosecution of gays, several major genocides etc

etc. So I think as the Maori proverb says “the struggle is eternal”.

I don’t think much of young people’s spirituality in general, but, many

of them, including LDS lack dogmatism and isolation, which is a bonus.

Perception of women is better too. Given a choice between a chlamydia epidemic and potential global destruction by war – I’d plump for the current generation’s mistakes.

[Anonymous]

You do have a point there SamBee. I do believe the current “chosen generation” (whether they be teens, 20s, or 30s) will bring about changes in the church, especially regarding women and SSA. They have influenced me.

[Anonymous]

They have their mistakes and flaws, but they are different to the previous generations.

I just wish I could distil all the recent generations’ good points, and put them together. The self-reliance and courage my father had to draw on during severe

rationing and war, and nearly being blown to pieces by a German torpedo. The flexibility of

views my slightly younger mother brought from a time when values

changed, and she could get a scientific education… a healthy skepticism of authority a younger generation brought, the positive (not the negative!) use of computers my own generation ushered in, and the positive (again not the negative!) tolerance the current generation has for minorities/other cultures etc etc.

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