On Thursday, NBC’s Today show devoted a full segment to examining the popular “Ok, Boomer” meme on social media by talking to a group of teenagers and senior citizens about the generation gap.
Amid other reasons for the divide, correspondents Savannah Sellers and Harry Smith touted climate change as a major cause of generational tension.
“This ‘Ok, Boomer’ meme online began out of this place that was young people feeling like older people think everything with us is a kid problem, but really, young people are like, ‘But there’s no Social Security, boomers aren’t moving, they’re staying alive longer,’” Sellers told the group.
“It’s just difficult to care about politics when the older generation is inadvertently causing problems that are affecting our future,” 18-year-old Elijah Smith complained. Moments later, 68-year-old Lee Raines lamented:
I was coming of age, I thought there was progress, and it was just going to get better and better and better and better. And somewhere along the way that became untrue.
And I think this generation is coming into kind of the backwash of the same problems being as urgent as they were when I was their age.
Harry Smith confessed: “So I’m 68 years old. Everybody I work with is younger than I am. And I live in mortal fear. Like, am I the crazy old guy?”
Following the taped segment, Sellers argued: “You know, the meme has caught on because of things like climate change, that Millennials feel Boomers don’t necessarily understand their concern over.”
Smith agreed:
I remember the first Earth Day, right? But the climate, the planet has only gotten warmer and warmer. The seas are warmer and warmer. All these young people with hundreds of thousands of dollars of student debt. When you think about, there is truth in the grievance, I think.
Weatherman and climate activist Al Roker chimed in: “Sure. First generation that’s gonna do worse than their parents.”
Younger and older generations complaining about one another is certainly nothing new. The idea that climate change is the central issue driving a wedge between Millennials and Baby Boomers is really overstating the case.
Ultimately the “Ok, Boomer” meme is more about satire than any substantive policy debate.
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The generation gap is nothing new. It was happening when I was in college in the 1970’s without the impact of the climate change fraud. I have read some accounts of a similar issue during the time of the ancient Greeks. What is happening here is in order to make “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” they need as many excuses as possible and generation gap is just one of them.
The younger generation has been let down and this is one example of how climate change is diverting attention away from real problems. I graduated from the most expensive public college in the state of Oregon. My tuition and fees for my last quarter were $450 for a full load. The most expensive book was in my electrical engineering major ran about $35. Today a general education book can run over $200 and practices by publishers and colleges often make the use of used books impossible. By taking a couple of years off to work full time before I finished my education I was able to graduate dept free. Today students graduate with tens of thousands of dollars of dept. This is one of a number of issues that desperately needs attention but the focus is all on climate change.
TODAY like just about all of NBC news is fake news and leftists propeganda i quit watching these fake news programs years ago and GMA as well as CBS MORNING NEWS,CBS SUNDAY MORNING, and 60 MINUTES is all fake news 99/44&100% Fake News