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Schoolyards and the Myth of Accountability
Blaming another is not accountability; it’s a distraction
Our society has become generationally challenged.
We’ve split our population into groups and assigned them names, like Boomers, Millennials, and Gen Zers, so that we won’t get confused and think our parents or grandparents are from the same generation as us.
We describe each of them differently and assign certain historical events to their watch, usually ones that caused problems for the next generation, to make sure that they understand that it was their fault.
As a result, each group becomes desperate in its efforts to shift blame from one group to the next. Like a game of musical chairs, it’s intent on not being left standing when the music stops.
Accountability is not a neighborhood we want to live in anymore.
Boomers became responsible for the Vietnam War and the chaos that ensued for decades to come, when the Boomers were the ones being named daily on the wounded and killed in action stats reported on the nightly news.
Millennials are accused of being a lost generation, unfocused and obsessed with pointing fingers at earlier generations for the unmitigated shitstorm they were born into.
