Considering plenty of gangland shootings involve one guy slighting another guy, are you saying that gangs are just a bunch of pussies running around the hood? Because that's utter nonsense. Most people would consider gangsters, biker gangs, etc, the definition of "hard".
It's in society's interest to make "beta" behavior seem like the "best" way to act because it keeps the majority of beta-provider working with their heads down. Making beta-behavior seem the most "brave" way to act (continue letting yourself get beat up by the bully, it shows how tough you are that you can take a black eye and act like nothing happened) helps ensure social stability.
Bingo.
In 30 years someone will be making whatever the equivalent of a thread is on whatever the equivalent of a forum is about us.
I don't see this generation as less or more 'pussy' than any other generation. If anything, I see more will and ability to stand up for stuff that people don't agree with, which is aided by the increased linkage via the internet.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
The legacy of this generation will be: millions of selfies! You go girls!
Aliens will describe this generation as : "Incessantly narcissistic people that like to take a lot pictures of themselves doing totally random things, with surgically enhanced, way too big, lips and faces with soooo much botox that you can't even read an emotion." /cheers. You guys sure accomplished a lot.
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Also all of us sitting in front of computers right now typing shit. Thats pretty much Beta to me.
I think about the guts of people who were alive during the world wars, who fought those battles, and I worry that today if it came to that, we would have more hippies than fighters. Myself included in the hippie pile.
Hate to break it to you, but you likely need to google the word "literal". Can't say I liked his terminology, but refering to weakness, or similar, in a group as "a cancer that needs to be burned away", is NOT a literal call for genocide. It's rather funny that you call him out on basic logic and the like, and then come up with an interpretation like that...glass houses, and whatnot.
It's not the fact that they get offended by things. It's how badly they lash back and the methods used.
(of course there are extreme cases where people should lash back)
Unfortunately for you, our generation is so stupid that they actually changed the definition of literal to be its exact opposite, which is to say, metaphorically speaking.
So when I say that I literally shoved my hand down a garbage disposal while it was on after reading this thread, what I really mean is that I didn't do it. That is the dictionary definition of that word.