I hate almost everyone my age. Everybody just follows everybody else. If you do different, then you are wrong by default. Nobody is a free-thinker, and if you try and be one then you inevitably get left out, so your only friends are other weird people.
To be honest, it's never been any different. It was like that when I was 16 and it was like that when my dad was at school.
I'm starting to get involved in the union movement and we have a mailing list of a couple of thousand people (most of them colleagues). Last week, I saw three of them using the list for this kind of bullying and discrimination, albeit politely and cleverly (although not clever enough for to see through). Two of them are in their fifties! They do the same thing they did at school. Just with more subtlety. It was horrible to watch.
Truth of it is, people have to learn to play the game. From your posts, you remind me of me. I used to expect people to play fair, to acknowledge my talents, and to be inclusive. Now I expect nothing and I'm quite happy to roll my sleeves up and play politics.
Is it normal that i hate my generation?
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I hate almost everyone my age. Everybody just follows everybody else. If you do different, then you are wrong by default. Nobody is a free-thinker, and if you try and be one then you inevitably get left out, so your only friends are other weird people.
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To be honest, it's never been any different. It was like that when I was 16 and it was like that when my dad was at school.
I'm starting to get involved in the union movement and we have a mailing list of a couple of thousand people (most of them colleagues). Last week, I saw three of them using the list for this kind of bullying and discrimination, albeit politely and cleverly (although not clever enough for to see through). Two of them are in their fifties! They do the same thing they did at school. Just with more subtlety. It was horrible to watch.
Truth of it is, people have to learn to play the game. From your posts, you remind me of me. I used to expect people to play fair, to acknowledge my talents, and to be inclusive. Now I expect nothing and I'm quite happy to roll my sleeves up and play politics.