Millennials in Politics
(1) Amongst the millennial generation today, millennials are perceived as being self entitled and only worried about their own self preservation.The author Ron Fournier argues that many people from different generations are frustrated and strongly believe that the millennial generation will cause a great downfall in our political system today due to their lack of confidence in our government. Fournier in his essay, discusses the common misconceptions about millennials and refutes them with examples of how millennials are taking big steps to radically change our political system. Similar to Fournier, authors David and Jack Cahn, address the various doubts other generations have about millennials, but counter this misconception with how this generation is the exact opposite of these stereotypes and exemplify what they can really achieve in our political system. This Cahn “manifesto” extends Fournier’s logical conclusion about revolutionary, or worse, millennial political goals.
(2) Self preservation, is first introduced through Hobbes’s, an …show more content…
These two views that interlink might influence my reader’s idea of self preservation because of the way each piece of evidence shared shows that initially they thought these actions were done to only benefit one person but in the end were done to achieve the goal of changing the world to benefit everyone in a more effective manner than past generations. Both texts also show the sweeping generalization fallacies that other generations commit when perceiving the millennial generation as ineffective and entitled, but then refute these generalizations with evidence of their passion to change how our political system works, in order to benefit not just one person but all of the
(1) Amongst the millennial generation today, millennials are perceived as being self entitled and only worried about their own self preservation.The author Ron Fournier argues that many people from different generations are frustrated and strongly believe that the millennial generation will cause a great downfall in our political system today due to their lack of confidence in our government. Fournier in his essay, discusses the common misconceptions about millennials and refutes them with examples of how millennials are taking big steps to radically change our political system. Similar to Fournier, authors David and Jack Cahn, address the various doubts other generations have about millennials, but counter this misconception with how this generation is the exact opposite of these stereotypes and exemplify what they can really achieve in our political system. This Cahn “manifesto” extends Fournier’s logical conclusion about revolutionary, or worse, millennial political goals.
(2) Self preservation, is first introduced through Hobbes’s, an …show more content…
These two views that interlink might influence my reader’s idea of self preservation because of the way each piece of evidence shared shows that initially they thought these actions were done to only benefit one person but in the end were done to achieve the goal of changing the world to benefit everyone in a more effective manner than past generations. Both texts also show the sweeping generalization fallacies that other generations commit when perceiving the millennial generation as ineffective and entitled, but then refute these generalizations with evidence of their passion to change how our political system works, in order to benefit not just one person but all of the