“We have reared a generation of selfish wimps?” Really? It’s taken this long to acknowledge this fact? Actual parenting where the parent lives and acts like a responsible adult that understands the important job of rearing a child, where foundational instruction and accountability, where discipline is exhibited, where adults do not allow children to rule, to make the decisions, and where children are not granted their every whim and spoiled.

Is almost nonexistent. A very rare thing. Especially in America.

Where children do not hear the word “no,” are never told they have to do something they don’t want to do, never having to work, think of others, or show respect, and were permitted to grow up in an unrealistic bubble where the child is idolized has resulted in the totally lost and selfish weak generation now that thinks anyone over the age of 50 should die, that no one over the age of 50 knows anything and that they should never be told what to do. Ever.

Where were the parents? Where were the adults? Where was the instruction to rear young people in order to be able to live in the real world rather than the fantasy world they were permitted to create and reside in?

This is Biblical;

And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them.

Isaiah 3:4 — English Standard Version

“I will make youths their leaders, and unstable rulers will govern them.”

Isaiah 3:4 — Christian Standard Bible

Other translations of Isaiah 3:4

Think the Word of God is some dusty ancient irrelevant book? That there is nothing in the Old Testament worth knowing and studying?

Think again. Better yet, read, study and meditate — think deeply — on the whole Word of God! Something, the most vital element missing and cause of the situation now at hand.

The United Nations, world leaders, and the world media treat a girl from Sweden like an oracle and hang on her every word regarding climate change.

Television programming and advertising, films portray children as the knowing experts, so much smarter than the fumbling, incompetent adults. For decades children on television and in films have been smartmouthed disrespectful and spoiled. This behaviour is treated in the scripts as how things should be.

It has happened across the board without most paying attention or caring as it happened. Evil is usually subtle and not overt and shocking. The evil that erodes o get its way and undo righteousness.

Society worships children and treats them as if they are the guides in life rather than the adults being the guides.

There has been an entire generation, actually, two entire generations reared without discipline. Without God. Without the Bible. Without sound instruction and teaching in reality. How the world works. What respect for others is. How to think of others. Selfishness and poor behaviour and total focusing on self have been the altar gone to and worshipped at for decades now. Godless and always selfish.

I’ve heard for years people say, “Young people are the future…”

But they never finish that sentence. Because oh, what a future it’s going to be considering how they have NOT been reared well and what they truly are inside their hearts and minds!

Weakness, an inability to confront and deal with the realities of the world, a total lack of consideration for others, and never learning basic foundational principles and truths are what the past generation is all about.

Aww, they don’t like being told what to do! Thinking they know it all since they’ve been taught from birth how gifted and special they are. With more concern about creating a sick self-esteem in them rather than building strong principled character.

And now, folks are finally getting fed up? Realizing what they have wrought? Really? About time…

…but tragically, too late. The die has been cast and the spoilt children are not going to suddenly learn, to change, to acquire what they should have been taught many years ago.

All this is part of the spiritual war and setting the stage for the collapse of many vital systems in the world. As witnessed in part in some of what is written in the article below, but should be seen and known by anyone alive today paying even a wee bit of attention.

“We have reared a generation of selfish wimps?” Really!? About time that was fired out. Sadly, too late.

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Tuesday, July 26th, 2022

Boomers strike back: ‘We have reared a generation of selfish wimps’

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

By The Daily Mail

Reprinted from The Daily Mail

A generational feud erupted on social media earlier this summer after a business guru said ‘old-style Boomer managers’ are causing younger staff to leave their jobs. Corporate coach Kathy McKenzie told Daily Mail Australia the No. 1 thing young workers despise is unnecessarily being told what to do by their older bosses. She added that the issue is even more magnified when Baby Boomers share obvious directions with younger staff – particularly women. But Boomers have hit back at ‘lazy’ Millennials, Gen Y and Z, complaining about their working conditions, claiming their generations are just ‘weak babies’ who have no clue about the real world and often produce ‘substandard’ work.

The social media furore comes as droves of disaffected staff are leaving en masse and triggering staff shortages across some of Australia’s most crucial industries including the healthcare sector – with thousands of nurses fleeing on the heels of the pandemic. The rest of the globe has seen a similar jobs crisis unfold post-Covid, in a phenomenon dubbed the ‘Great Resignation’.

‘Youngsters are leaving the workplace because they’d rather sit home on Centrelink (government) payments than doing an actual job,’ Dianne (pictured above), 66, commented as furious discussion broke out over the issue online. ‘I’ve worked with young managers and ones who are well over retirement age. Being a…wit is actually a defect which is found across the age spectrum. If your boss is lacking in this quality, you’ll be miserable at work regardless of his/ her age bracket. Blaming an entire generation for your woes is easier than taking responsibility for poor choices. It’s also spineless and lacking in substance.’

 ‘We have reared a generation of selfish wimps’

Robert (pictured above) said getting direction from bosses is a normal part of any job. ‘How dare the baby boomer bosses dictate to the workers re how to do their job?’ he posted sarcastically. Others commented that the complaints of ‘me, myself & I’ generations are ‘a bit rich’ coming from a group of people who go out of their way to be offended and then post ‘themselves crying on social media’ about it.’ ‘Millennials are selfish, self centered, don’t understand teamwork or responsibility to coworkers or company,’ one person said. ‘The trouble is that they are also so arrogant and entitled that they won’t recognize or admit to any of these traits.’

‘We have reared a generation of selfish wimps,’ Janet (pictured above) said.  A massive cultural divide is creating instability and high-turnover in various sectors throughout Australia.

Kathy McKenzie (pictured above), who founded the business coaching start-up Fire Up, says younger workers don’t have to put up with their bosses ‘making demands’ anymore and are looking to work for employers that know how to foster their talents. ‘In the 80s and 90s, if someone was telling you something that you already knew, you just sucked it up. Now that just doesn’t fly anymore. Especially for younger women,’ she said. ‘When someone starts mansplaining, they know they don’t actually have to put up with that like they did 10 or 15 years ago. Millennials and the new workforce now also really understand what coaching and mentorship is. So if their boomer bosses don’t have that skill they just find it really frustrating and will likely leave.’

But older generations disagree and say maybe if the ‘generation of know-it-alls’ actually listened to their boomer bosses they might be happier about their jobs. ‘That’s what is wrong with the younger generations. They pick and choose what they want to do,’ Christine wrote. ‘But all those other meaningless tasks also need to be done – that’s why they were hired and are being paid.’ Another person had a more philosophical view of the intergenerational conflict. ‘Since time began the young generation puts the generation ahead down, until the young end up the the next mob of fools… Life goes fast,’ the person wrote. Pictured is a stock image.

Australia is currently in the midst of a jobs crisis following the Covid pandemic, with businesses across the country facing staff shortages. A mass exodus of workers fed up with their chosen careers coupled with a sharp slow down of immigration from overseas are two of the key factors driving the 50-year low in unemployment, now sitting at 3.9 per cent. The scope of the issue troubling bosses was laid bare in the latest jobs report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, with 423,500 vacancies going unfilled. Among the sectors most devastated by a shortfall in staff is the healthcare sector, with 20,000 ‘burnt out’ nurses walking out on the job last year. One of those who quit, Amy Halvorsen (pictured), said there was a ‘huge gap’ between nurses working on the floor and management.

 ‘We have reared a generation of selfish wimps’

The 33-year-old started working as a registered nurse in 2017 and was on the front line of the Covid outbreak serving in the neurology and trauma unit at Sydney’s Westmead Hospital. ‘It was so understaffed throughout 2021, and when the new waves of the virus kept coming, there was just no reprieve at all,’ she said. ‘As soon as beds finally started to empty out, we’d be hit with another wave, and there was no forward planning by the health department or the government to fix it. ‘We had patients on breathing apparatus who needed to be watched every ten minutes so it became dangerous.’

Ms. Halvorsen said the conditions were so bad that there were rarely breaks, and nurses had to rely on fellow staff to watch their patients just to go to the bathroom. She raised the issue with hospital management, who told her ‘they are not seeing the same thing. They just see numbers and targets and percentages, not what health staff are going through,’ she said. ‘They were bringing in inexperienced nurses to look after brain surgery patients. It’s dangerous. You’re frustrated, exhausted and overworked already, and then you are having to help train another nurse. The entire support system was falling apart.’

At one point, she was told to contact a counselor as part of NSW Health’s ’employee assistance programs’. ‘Me calling a counsellor who has less mental health experience than me and has no medical background is not okay,’ Ms. Halvorsen said. ‘They don’t understand. They say things like ‘do some deep breathing’. Ms. McKenzie, who also worked as a registered nurse decades earlier, said it’s a classic example of toxic management. ‘A good leader will be transparent about what’s going on and if they don’t know something, they will share what information they do have,’ she said. ‘Good leaders will also take the time to build strong relationships with their teams. You have to actually know your staff. What are their strengths? What are their values and what are their trigger points?’

New data makes it clear the Great Resignation phenomenon is unfolding in Australia with the ABS revealing the number of people who quit to change jobs or chase a business opportunity was now much higher than the tally of people being sacked or retrenched. CommSec chief economist Craig James said: ‘The great job market shuffle is underway. ‘For the first time there are more people that saying they are unemployed because they left their last job rather than those that lost jobs through redundancy, business failure or poor performance.’

Mr. James said employers that didn’t offer better pay and conditions were in danger of losing staff. ‘Employers need to be alert and a little alarmed,’ he said. ‘The job market is tight and a near record number of jobs are vacant and looking to be filled. To attract and retain staff will require a lot more effort than applied in the recent past.’