Marian Salzman presents another pointless perspective for Adweek, now sharing her keen insights on millennials. Although technically, the ramblings aren’t her insights, as the woman essentially regurgitates observations that have been common knowledge since at least 2000, when Neil Howe and William Strauss published Millennials Rising. Salzman wonders how the youthful generation will respond in the uncertain days ahead. Well, you don’t have to call yourself a futurist to predict they won’t be wasting their time reading overpaid hucksters like Salzman.
I hate all of these kinds of articles. None of them are saying anything new. I get it; my generation likes computers.
ReplyDeleteIn this article, that's pretty much the only thing that's really setting us apart from other generations who have had to deal with similar crises.
There's gotta be a better word than huckster to describe Salzman and her ilk. She's almost Palin-esque in her brazenness to display her cluelessness and ignore even the slightest possibility (or certainty in her case) that she doesn't have half an iota of what she's talking about.
ReplyDeleteAnd what's worse is she's consistently given a platform, validation and compensation by so many in the business world.
At some point, even the truly stupid people amongst us has looked in the mirror and thought, "something's not right here."
Chris Rock told a great joke about his neighborhood and how what few black folks are in it have to be lightyears ahead of their neighbors in accomplishments to aquire enough assets to afford to be there.
Salzman reminds me that a new phase in Civil Rights Movement might be the ability for people of color to be just as stupid, inept and unqualified as Salzman yet still get comparable opportunities and rewards.
Reading her article was like watching fellatio performed in print...on that douchebag who always pops his collar.
ReplyDeleteI hate articles that talk about our need to pander to millennials, rather than the other way around. Since when did entry-level carry that kind of gravitas?
Tripe.