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want. Today, I want to talk about this article I found because, "Oh no, oh my. It's a lot." Don't
think of it so much as an article reading. Think of it as a bedtime story, right? I'll do my
best to read it as calmly as possible. And after I'm done, you're definitely going to wish
you were asleep. 'OK, Boomer.' Really?! Here's what needs to be said to the younger generations.
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before I jump into this article, I just want to acknowledge that I'm 21 years old, right? And
I can see in my analytics that over half of my audience is on that 18 to 24 age range, but I can
also see that there's some older people watching me. So to those older people, I just want to say,
"Don't worry. I would never do you the disservice of lumping you in with the guy who wrote
this article. I know he doesn't speak for all older people. And trust me, after you read this
article, you're going to be glad that he doesn't." So Michael Levin, I don't know much about him
other than that he looks like this and he has a book called, I could be wrong, but probably not,
which honestly tells me everything I need to know about. So I guess he's like a humor columnist. So
a lot of this article is supposed to be sarcastic or I guess satirical, but there's some very
real themes running through this article, which I think should be addressed by somebody of
the younger generation as he puts. Over the ages, generations have competed, criticized and
looked condescendingly down on each other. Most of us know for certain that our own
generation is just right. These older include the squeezers who are hopelessly
out of it. Those younger are lazy pampered, spoiled brats, who don't appreciate the hardships
we adored when we were their age. Now here's the thing that you're going to notice. This is a
theme that goes through the article where he's describing older people and he's like, "Clueless,
squeezers, hopelessly out of it." But then, he describes younger people and it's like, "Lazy,
pampered, spoiled brats. Don't appreciate the hardships." So I don't know about you, but
I'm picking up a little bit of bias here. So he goes into a little bit of detail about
what the definition of a boomer actually is. And then he identifies as one. "I'm a Boomer."
That's a heck of a way to start your paragraph. Later generations look at us as a bunch of
smug, self-satisfied types who rode rising stock and real estate markets to financial
paradise and then yanked up the ladder so that younger people drowning in college debt
were totally shut out of the American dream. Okay, but like which later generations look at
you like that? Because I know I don't, financial paradise? Even when this guy is jokingly talking
himself down, he's seriously talking himself up. And also to imply that anybody is totally shut
down with the American dream boomers, repaying the compliment tend to view those who followed us as
a self-absorbed, handcrafted mocha latte sipping, technology obsessed, phone staring, ridiculously
tattooed, backwards baseball cap Wang, lay abouts, whose greatest desire is to spend the rest
of their lives smoking medicinal marijuana in their parents' basements. Hold on a second,
here it is again. So the older people are smug, self satisfied, but then all the rest of it is
just accomplishment. They wrote rising stock and real estate markets and achieve the American
dream in financial paradise. But then he describes younger people and it's just all bad, right?
We have crappy tattoos, terrible drinks, we live in our parents' basement. We're all
high apparently that's a generational thing. As everyone knows nobody over the age of 24 has
ever even heard of weed, backwards baseball cap wearing. And what year though, because that's
not something that I really see going on today, but this is how they see us, right? No matter
what I do in life, I'm always just going to be a backwards baseball cap wearing kid to Michael
Levin. Both you and me, you're going to have to deal with that as a lay about with crappy tattoos.
And then he says, "and of course we're all right." So again, he's acknowledging at the very least
that some of this is ironic, right? Of course not all young people are a certain way. Of course
not all old people are living the American dream. I know my family isn't... they've never been
rich. And if this was all the article wise, I wouldn't have much to say about it because I can
tell he's meming, right? I mean, he's definitely idealizing older people and talking a whole lot
of trash about younger people, but it's memes, right? I can appreciate a good meme. That's why I
can't appreciate this because it's not good. But this is where the article starts to fall apart.
I never cared one way or the other about all this intergenerational sniping until now. Some young
whippersnapper had the clever idea to turn the "Okay Google" commands into the snide hashtag
"Okay Boomer" as if to say to folks like me, "sit down and shut up old man. Your time has
passed." Just got me madder than Joe Biden being asked about his son Hunter's...
Okay, it's too much politics for me. So first of all, the "Okay Boomer" meme died
like a really long time ago. So I'm not sure why this is cropping up in the Fox news
article from, I think last week. Secondly, Okay Boomer did not come from Okay Google. That's
not where the meme came from at all. And a simple Google search would lead you to the origin, but
maybe I know too much, right? Maybe that's just me being a technology obsessed, phone staring,
backwards baseball cap boy, right? So he seems to be very confused about a meme and also talking
about an old meme as if it's relevant. And both of those are behaviors which I hate to have to
be the one to point it out, but that's "Boomer behavior my guy," but you know what? This man was
nice enough to write up a whole article for us. So I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.
The Okay Boomer hashtag even made it to the hallowed halls of the U.S. Supreme Court. Chief
justice John Roberts died in the whom boomer if ever there was one, has recently whether using
the phrase, "Okay Boomer" in the workplace was not just patronizing, but it was evidence of
age discrimination. I actually agree with him here. So I wouldn't use Okay Boomer in
the workplace because obviously that's a professional environment and I would
expect people to treat me with the same level of respect that I'm treating them with.
However, the internet is not in the workplace, okay. People are going to say stuff.
Are people saying this in a workplace context? We boomers have put up with a lot of
malarkey from self-congratulatory Gen Z types, as they remake the world into something
impersonal, intolerant, unrecognizable and all but unlivable with their heads buried in their
smartphones and their misguided conviction that there's an app for everything that matters.
Now, hold on a second. Did he just say that we're making the world intolerant? Because by
his own definition as a boomer, he was born sometime before 1964. Wow, this man was alive.
It was legal to discriminate against people in the United States, based off of their race,
color, religion, sex or national origin. So, but no, it was me, right? It was us. It was the
baseball cap kids who made the world intolerant. So keep that in mind. But thankfully, even though
we ruined the world by embracing equal rights for everyone, Mr. Michael Levin forgives us. He says
"we tolerate their naivete because we were young ones too. But we can't even get through to them
because their earbuds are cemented to their ears. And they're spending every waking moment, staring
narcissists like at their social media feeds." First of all, we don't have earbuds cemented
to our ears, okay. We have AirPods cemented to our ears. I'll let you call me a baseball cap
boy, but I'll never let you call me poor. As for this idea that we spend every moment staring
narcissists is like at their social media feeds. Now, do you think that my social media feed is
just me? Is it just a reflection of myself? I could see how that would be a little concerning.
But seeing as my social media feed is generally filled with other people, not sure how this makes
me narcissistic. I'm mad as hell at the younger generations. If you're part of this group, I want
to tell you why you've screwed up a perfectly great world and just what you need to do next.
Now I know that that part is hopefully ironic because there's no way he thought the world
was perfectly great. Back when someone like me wouldn't even be allowed to have a YouTube
channel, but then he starts launching into a tirade of why exactly he's better than you, better
than me, better than everybody who's not a boomer. So listen up to why you've ruined the world and
exactly what you need to do to fix it. You spend your days staring into screens. But contrast, we
make eye contact and therefore have empathy and real connection with other human beings. I mean, I
have a family. This whole channel may be a science experiment, but I was still born. I also have
friends, but I'm getting too hung up on this, right? Clearly because I'm self-absorbed, right?
I immediately made it about me SMH. There I go again, baseball boy, classic jeanchy mistake. Let
me listen instead of making it about me. You have hooking up, we have relationships, We live right.
Hold up, there's no more relationships? Also is he trying to act like nobody ever had a hookup
before Tinder existed? Because I find that real hard to believe. Good for you. You live right.
You live right how? What are you vegan? Do you do Zoomba? How do you live right? And the way
that we don't live right, I would love to know you have Apple watches where all you do is look
at your timelines. We have neighborhood watches where we look out for each other. Who checks
their timeline on their Apple watch though. That's what I want to know. Also does he really
think the point of neighborhood watches is to look out for each other? Because you live to get
likes, we live for love. I hate love obviously, like any baseball cap boy. And by the way, this
is all inclusive. I don't care if you're a man, woman, anything else. You are a baseball cap boy
today. We are all backwards baseball cap boys who hate love and are incapable of relationships. We
live for likes, ridiculous. But be sure to drop a like on this video though, because I really help.
You have influencers, we have thinkers. You have politicians, we had statesmen. I am somewhat of
an influencer. Use code D'Angelo when you check out@manscaped.com, that sort of thing. But I am
a thinker. Now that I'm starting to feel a little did I say offended. You have politicians,
we had statesman. No, you had politicians as well. We still have politicians. Show me
a politician who is 21 years old right now, show me a Gen Z politician. I know that
they exist, but you have to realize that most politicians are by your own definition,
"Boomers." We win awards for accomplishments. You expect participation ribbons just for showing
up. What accomplishments though, global warming? Nice, you accomplish that real good. You
want an award for this economy that we're in right now? Because great job amazing moves
as for expecting participation ribbons just for showing up. First of all, showing up is hard,
but no, it's more so that I expect a ribbon for the work that I put into things and I would
prefer to not have it written off as unimportant, just because the person doing so is 40 years older
than me. You have Facebook friends, we have real friends. We do not have Facebook friends. I am
21 years old. Do you think I follow anybody on Facebook? You think I have Facebook installed on
any of my devices? You have Facebook friends. I have real friends, too. Some of them are on the
internet, probably just like mind-boggling right? That you could meet somebody via technology
and still connect with them as a human person. We have tolerance, you have cancel culture. And
college campuses we had open discourse or free speech. Today, you have a McCarthyism of the
left and trigger words because any idea you don't agree with Cindy screaming for crayons
and Teddy bears. You have tolerance? For who? In the world that you were born into, there
was no tolerance for anybody other than the people that they were tolerant for it. And as
for cancel culture, I'm so sorry. On behalf of all baseball cap babies that when people do bad
things, people have the right to speak up and call them out for it. I'll work on that. I'll make
sure that stops happening. As for a trigger words, that's a very bad way of putting this. I'm just
going to adjust the underlying issue here. As for this notion that any idea I don't agree with it,
sends me screaming for crayons and Teddy bears. For that, I raise you one. Any criticism of me I
don't agree with is automatically cancel culture. When it comes to personal finance, we balance our
checkbooks. You don't even know how much you spend that Starbucks, hint, a lot. Hint, Starbucks is
trash. I don't shop there. You have meek jobs, we have careers. Meek jobs, as in, we get low
paying jobs. Everyone who works at McDonald's chooses to recommend Donald's right? Like back
when I used to work at a literal gas station, convenience store, that was my choice. I could
have had a career, but there I was, selling car fresheners. I'm sorry, sir. I would like one
career please? Culture? Same thing. We have classic music from the 1960s and 70s, The Beach
Boys, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Motown legends, Billy Joel, Aerosmith, ZZ Top and many more.
You have Billie Eilish and other whiny balladeers who can only write songs about how some dope human
in the club won't return your texts. First of all, Billie Eilish, isn't old enough to go to a club. I
take it. You've never heard of Billie Eilish song before, but he does bring up something which
I would love to address like right now. Maybe, and hear me out, maybe music hasn't gotten worse
over time. Maybe you've just gotten Murcia, finding good music because you're out of touch
with modern technology and you don't know how to sort things in a way that allows you to
consume media, which you enjoy, as opposed to the understandably overrated artists that flood
our timelines. But no, Billie Eilish is bad. Okay, Jinsey ears. I get it. You're in the
squeeze because of student loans and yes, it looks like our generation pulled up the ladder.
If you could just stop saying, pulled up the ladder, I'd really appreciate it. It's like this
notion that I need a ladder or that you even have the capability to give me anything that I couldn't
give myself. Let me just throw this out there. Nobody in this world, boomer or otherwise
has anything that I can't get for myself. And that's not just for me. That's for everybody
watching this video. There's nobody in the world who has something that they need to hand me a
ladder, so I could reach it too. If you did that, I can do that too. So no, I don't really
need any ladders from boomers or anyone, but maybe I don't know I need the ladder, right?
Maybe it's the ladder I never knew I needed, but that's just like you kids to play the victim card.
And truth, every generation has a hard, just in different ways. Well, you know what else we have
in this generation? Emotional intelligence. That's the thing. And generally emotional intelligence
would dictate that while it may be true that you have experienced equal, if not more drastic
hardships than others. When they're explaining those hardships to you, maybe you don't make it
about yourself. Maybe if someone's explaining a hardship to you and you're making it about
yourself, he might be a little dare I say, self-absored? That might even be narcissistic.
No way, is Michael Levin a baseball cap baby? My mind is being blown right now. I don't know
about you. This is the best bedtime story ever. I haven't laughed like this since... Let's be
honest, I'm not laughing. You actually have the benefit of disinterment disintermediation, a
word that didn't exist when we were your age, does it exist now? What kind of word is that. On
Amazon Etsy, Fiverr or Upwork and other sites, you can sell your ideas, creations books in
time to markets all over the planet without ever having to create a resume or get a job.
This man just said on Amazon Etsy, Fiverr, Upwork, and other sites, you can turn your ideas
into a job and then profit from them without ever having to create a resume or get a job.
So make that one make sense. I guess this what I'm doing right here is not a job. I've just been
doing it every day because of disintermediation. See? I'm learning. I may be a baseball baby,
but I can pick up a trick or two. By contrast, we had to improve ourselves to gatekeepers
and bosses working our way up slowly instead of starting tech companies and becoming
gazillionaires not long after hitting puberty. So you do realize that Bill Gates is
a boomer, right? Bill Gates is 64 years old. So if Bill Gates and his boomer self could start an
enormous tech company, how would you look at this? Jeff Bezos was born in 1964, making him barely
a boomer, but still one nonetheless. It's almost like even if you're over a certain age, if
you embrace new technology instead of outright rejecting it, then you can find out how to make
it work for you until they're feeling like it separates you from other people who do know how to
use it. But what I know, I'm a baseball cap boy. I'm having too much fun with this baseball
cap boy thing, pro tip, as you young folks like to say the next time you... hold Up pro tip?
Why young folks like to say that? And by the way, if we young folks like to say pro tip, then what
was it a few minutes ago when you were like, "Hint." Is that not just a different word
for the same thing? It's almost like people snarkily bringing up information has always been
a thing way since before Shakespeare. Anyway, pro tip as you young folks like to say, the next
time you see gray hair, think of it as a sign, meaning information center. We boomers
didn't get where we are by hanging around coffee shops and staring at Instachat and
SnapFace. Okay, obviously that's irony, but we earned everything we have from our careers
to our marriages, to our houses, to our 401Ks. And if you can get over your own youthful arrogance
and ask us, we might just tell you how we did it. Oh yes. Great Michael Levin, we come to you today
to ask how you wound up in your marriage and your 401K and your career. Please, please. I'm just a
struggling YouTuber, okay? I'm just a struggling baseball boy. I mean, I literally have a career.
I just did that Manscaped ad. Use code D'Angelo when you check out Manscaped after this video.
By the way, it's almost over. People who do things on the internet have careers, I'm doing
work and then I'm getting money. And then I'm using that money to pay for my responsibilities.
But like, it's not a career. It's just it's... I mean, I edited this video at a freaking
Starbucks. Is that not the most Gen Z thing you've ever heard? I edited this video at the
Starbucks guys. Where is my baseball cap? Anyway, I feel like I tore that article to shreds.
Michael Levin, if you're watching this, it's all in good fun, maybe. Though there were
some very questionable ideas you had running through that article. So I hope despite
all of my sarcasm and my bad attitude, I was able to at least address some of them.
But I mean, even if I didn't address it, even if I was right and he was wrong, I'm
wearing a backwards baseball cap right now. You're going to listen to a backwards baseball cap
baby? I didn't think so. So ultimately, who cares?
