Pursuant to the Last Post

[tealin]

An interesting opinion piece from a new(?) contributor to the CBC, on the cracks possibly starting in the NRA's stranglehold of American politics ... I, personally, think he's being a bit overoptimistic: he makes an intriguing observation that the paranoia game is harder to play when you have a government friendly to your cause, however if the midterm elections bring a swing in the balance of Congress it'll be right back to where it was before.

Mainly, though, I like the article for this line:

"... confessed gunman Nikolas Cruz unwittingly left behind the NRA's worst nightmare: articulate, engaged teenagers."

Maybe the reason Millennials are done down so much by the establishment is that they (the latter) can tell they have the potential to change the world.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think technically these kids are Gen Z, Millennial teenagers had their last chance to save the world (as teenagers) last year. Not that I've seen a huge difference between Millennials and Gen Z yet. I wonder how this new NRA president will work out and if we'll ever see the end of Executive Vice-President Wayne La Pierre and his ludicrous title.

[tealin]

Fair enough. I realise I am not the arbiter of such things but 2000 seems like such an arbitrary cut-off date ... sure, 9/11 may have changed the world, but nothing has drawn as clear a line across how our brains are wired than the arrival of pocket computing in 2007. Kids who've grown up on mobile devices really are a different generation ... then again, these high school students probably don't remember much of life before the iPhone anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

I completely agree with how arbitrary it seems. I remember being in my late twenties and talking to an adolescent kid and thinking "I don't have a lot in common with this person but somehow we're both Millennials." I have a vague recollection the term was created by economists or marketers and then later social and cultural attributes were ascribed to the name.