"BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion" (pbs)
10/18/2013 at 22:51 • Filed to: Rant, Kind of
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"BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion" (pbs)
10/18/2013 at 22:51 • Filed to: Rant, Kind of | 0
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Alternative to what, you're asking? To millennials, of course. After reading the article, reading the rebuttals, watching the video and even posting my own dumb counter-rant on the front page, I figured that what really annoyed me in Mr. Mosher's rant wasn't as much the way he described his relationship with cars, or even the his impossible demands for a car that would interest "his generation", as Nelson Ireson described in his awesome rebuttal.
No, what really annoyed me was Mr Mosher's attitude towards his big goal of saving the planet, his entitlement that eco friendly cars that run on good thoughts should just be invented for him like right now. Mr. Mosher wants to save the planet, but he's too damn busy ranting and demanding to make good use of what we have now, and focus on what we will probably have in the near future. He wants to stop traffic deaths but he won't put his iPhone down to pay attention to the damn road. He wants self driving cars, but he wants simple cars with no complex electronics to drive the price up. Why do your own part when you can demand other people to do them for you, am I right?
Well, we can't have that here on Oppo. We have been advocating proper driving techniques, the qualities of wagons and the preservation of manual transmissions for ages, but if we want to keep our cars on the road, we have to rise to the points mentioned by Mosher, advocate the responsible use of our cars ourselves, put them in practice and not demand that someone else do it for us. Several great points have been posted here already, from the amount of recycled material that goes into a car, to the benefits of proper maintenance, and even of sharing a car with colleagues that live nearby but it all boils down to the fact that efficiently using what we have now still is a much better option than pulling and millennial by whining to the same people already burdened by those same demands. I know I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but it's up to us to do our part, no one else is going to side with us in defense of what has arguably become one of the main villains of the modern world, so Iask that you think about what you can do and then do it. Let's show them they're wrong and that we can do more good by taking action now, than whining and waiting for things to change later. There's no better way to tank the Millennial argument than that.
Well, that went for a little longer than I expected... And I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense, but I just had to throw it out there. But hey, for those who got all the way down here, here's some, you guessed, 90's rock.
GhostZ
> BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
10/19/2013 at 05:29 |
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I think a growing group of 'millenials' that goes overlooked, and one that I see more and more often at my college, are the fucking ruthless capitalists.
These are the same people who grew up with that "save the world" mentality driven into them by 90s PSAs, but they also have a strong distrust of the Government's ability to do things from the last president and the Iraq war. They look toward Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk,Richard Branson, Warren Buffet and John D. Rockefeller as their heroes.
It's sort of like the little kid who believed he could be an astronaut, and then was hit by the Iraq War and the Financial crisis in a 1-2 punch. Now they find themselves in a sink-or-swim scenario and they are pissed that their opportunity at the "american dream" got shafted, so they are riding on financial deregulation and emerging technology to make their dreams come true by either starting a business or working extremely hard to get it.
It's funny, but the most successful/important people of the next 40 years, I believe, are going to come from the most underprivileged households.
Unlike the people who aspired to have wealth in the previous generation (MTV demonstrating that decadence and fame = success) these people get their kicks from overcoming difficult challenges to make up for their lack of faith in the 'system'. The lazy hipster millennial share this lack of faith, but it's manifested in a dislike for business and effort.
In other words, the Hipster believes that everything worth having takes too much effort because the game is stacked against them. The Capitalist believes that if someone is going to want something, they have to give up everything else and focus on it because the game is stacked against them, but that because of that, the rewards are higher too.
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BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
> GhostZ
10/19/2013 at 12:55 |
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I think you hit the nail on the head here. Millennials are usually regarded as self entitled, but I think the way you put it, that they see the odds against them and fails to put in the effort required to beat them.
It's an interesting fact that this has happened (not sure if it's still happening) already in Japan, it was the herbivore movement, if I remember correctly, where young japanese males gave up trying to be successful with the traditional means because the previous generation had done it, and failed, and they share a lot of characteristics with our local brand of millennials as well, from being self centered to being unable to land and hold well paying jobs, opting to work small service jobs instead.