“I don't think we’re as amazing as our parents are. I'm not going to have any struggles to tell my kids about. What's my story going to be like? Ah, son, once, when I was flying from New York to L.A., my iPad died!”— Aziz Ansari, youtube.com
“Pokemon brings millennials out of their natural environment - their parents' basements.”— Paul Joseph Watson, twitter.com
“I don’t think there’s any shortage of advice to Millennials, so I’m not going to join the chorus. They can Google anything they need anyway. These poor kids have been helicoptered over since they were infants, promised the sky, then had the economic ladder pulled out from under them, and now they ge…”— Clayton Cubitt, playboy.com
“We want something that’s very passionate, or boiling, from the get-go. In the past, people weren’t looking for something boiling; they just needed some water. Once they found it and committed to a life together, they did their best to heat things up. Now, if things aren’t boiling, committing to marr…”— Aziz Ansari, amazon.com
“Life under contemporary capitalism demands an aggressive alienation from each other and our bodies. Most of western culture is dedicated to recouping sensation amid that strain. When your life doesn’t seem to have much meaning, wringing the most out of moments of pleasure and friendship take on a ne…”— Ayesha Siddiqi, thenewinquiry.com
“I’ll throw you in a vine and make you famous and shit. This, and other exchanges about favor-based social economies, exemplify how much social capital has replaced liquid assets for millennials. There isn’t much cash between us, but maybe we’ll get friendly with the right celebrity online who’ll thr…”— Ayesha Siddiqi, thenewinquiry.com
“But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. It's all very sweeping, and not the way we actually are as people.”— Jon Ronson, amazon.com
“Millennials' median income is actually lower in real terms than what Gen Xers earned at the same age. And unemployment and student debt are only a couple of reasons among many that young people today face greater economic hardship than did older generations.”— Josh Weiss, cnbc.com