Oh Hank...

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Oh, Hank...

Problem with Hank and John is that they are... optimistic? I'm not saying that the critics of the Green Brothers is pessimistic, but there's a sense of blind optimism?

They are a cheerleader type... a person who encourages the community to do stuff, and being entrepreneurs that's kind of their job...

What I'm saying here is... You know how parents at a cross-country meet sometime cheer their sons/daughters by saying "You've gone so far, keep it up!" even though they have way more distance to travel? It's intended as encouragement but it gets little... misguided.

Yeah, misguided. That's the word. They kind of forget the whole situation and blindly encourage someone and then go... 'I messed up' when it doesn't pan out...

So back in June, Hank made the post (second link) about racism and how it's "Improving"... obviously it lead to some backlash and Hank hastily defended himself... and then Ferguson happens.

Yeah, Hank probably regret that post.

Which is so embarrassing to call out on Hank again because he's doing same thing here, basically.

I mean Lindsey rightly called bull on this optimism, so I won't go into detail here, but Why?

I mean why are Greens keep making that mistake?

My intuition is age difference. I mean Hank was born '80 and John was born in '77... so they had their childhood in the '80s and their adolescence in the '90 and the dot-com bubble was for them early-mid twenties and they are already doing something...

For me, however born in '94, 9/11 happened when I was 7 and the Great Recession happened when I was 14 or 15 and now I'm looking at more stagnant world at age 19, feeling crippled.

The Millennials had this promise growing up... of prosperity and fortune in the '90s... like the internet and marketing and just everything seems to be handed in a platter... Then the dot-com bubble happened, 9/11 and the Iraq War happened, Great Recession happened and we're hurtling toward 2010's feeling so much loss... there's no hope and no prosperity and we didn't even do anything!

I felt as through millennials feel as though they're against the flow of society, got the short end of the stick, having so much promises and seeing it all just go away. There's resentment for past and disdain/anxiety for the future. It's though we're pushing the rock up the hill and parents are cheering?

It's not anti-authoritarianism, it's not like we rule and adults suck, but adults suck and we have to take up the slack... and cheering won't cut it.

Yeah... so, it's more sinister than I thought. Hank and John's cheering is seen as not an encouragement for a better future, but the leave of responsibility, as in we cheer and you do the all the work.

(Maybe the clash feminism and MRA comes down to the same point... hmm, interesting.)

So, perhaps it's rude say, but shut up and do the work, Hank. Don't need to be a cheerleader.