I Need Counselling Pleads Gen Y Rep

Ryan Paugh doesn't want to be babied. What he needs, he tells the "adult" world, is old fashioned facilitation. That's not a Latin word for spanking. It means he wants counselling just like old dad used to give on the Leave It To Beaver show.

Wait a second. Is he saying that Gen Y wants to throw off the burden of new-fangled therapeutic coddling in favour of the tough-but-fair, man-to-man talks young fellows used to receive in days gone by?

Sounds like it to me. And you know what that means? Gen Y doesn't want to be different. It wants things to be the same as they were before.

Of course, things never were that way. I've never met a dad like Ward Cleaver. But I find the idea that Gen Y wants to go back to the future interesting.

See Also: Gen Y Coddled, Gen Y The Backlash Begins, Generational Smackdown, 2007 = 1969, Gen Y Hoax 1, Gen Y Hoax 2, Gen Y Hates Hippies

Comments

[Ryan Paugh]

Once again, all you're doing is manipulating words to make things fit exactly the way you want them to. We use the term "facilitation" it the adult-world all the time Animal, and it refers to leading a group of people toward a common goal. In many cases, educating oneself for the better is that common goal.

I'll admit that we can learn from the past, but your incessant hounding on it is preventing progress moving forward.

[Recruiting Animal]

Hey readers, isn't he a riot? A sense of humour makes a leader fun to work with and this guy's got one as you can see.

[Recruiting Animal]

Speaking of the past, today is the day that the four students were shot at Kent State in 1970.

http://www.thrasherswheat.org/fot/ohio.htm

[Stephen]

"On May 4, 1970, a student demonstration at Kent State, Ohio left four students dead, one paralyzed, and eight others wounded. This demonstration, meant to be one of many peaceful demonstrations against the war, was ended abruptly and violently when the National Guard fired into the crowd for 13 seconds. The brief shootings ended the lives of students Jeffrey Miller, Allison Krause, William Schroeder, and Sandra Scheuer. The distances ranged from 270 feet to 390 feet. Some of these students were not even directly involved. Justified or not by self-defense, the "massacre" sparked a nationwide student strike that closed many colleges and universities.

The line, "We're finally on our own" describes the feeling of freedom and independence in college, and the line "Four dead in Ohio" refers to the four slain students at Kent State. The "Tin soldiers" are the National Guard, and many people, including Young, felt that it was President Richard Nixon's fault. "

As we recently were reminded in the Katrina debacle, the Governor of the state is in charge of the National Guard, not the President.

In fact, Wikipedia says this about the governor, James Allen Rhodes (R): {At a news conference in Kent, Ohio, Sunday May 3, 1970, the day before the Kent State incident he said of campus protesters, "They're worse than the brownshirts and the communist element and also the nightriders and the vigilantes. They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America. I think that we're up against the strongest, well-trained, militant, revolutionary group that has ever assembled in America."}

[Ryan Paugh]

Hey Animal:

Who's the guy in the picture? I can't have your readers thinking this guy is Ryan Paugh.

[Recruiting Animal]

Ryan, regular readers know that he's my trademark Gen Y Guy. But, send me a few pictures and I'll see if any appeal to me. Note, however, I reserve the right to indulge my own taste in graphics. (Ask Bull Doza).

[Ryan Paugh]

I'll see what I can come up with...we've got more style than that guy.