"Obsession With Therapy-Speak": 36 Things Older People Don't Get About The Younger Generations

We got in touch with the person who started this discussion, and they agreed to chat with us about it.

"I came up with the idea for the post when I was just scrolling through Reddit," 5h0gKur4C4ndl explained to Bored Panda.

"It was the first time in a while; quitting and then coming back is a surefire way to get new material."

As the thread went viral, 5h0gKur4C4ndl noticed that "most of the answers were reasonable enough."

The Redditor isn't entirely sure if the conversations will remain civil as time goes on, but so far, the main points seem to be general attitude, convenience issues, and "whatever your grandparents would complain about."

From how we vote to how we tackle climate change and other pressing issues, the generation gap sometimes seems bigger than ever before.

There are the boomers, people born in the post-war baby boom period. The case against them is that they enjoyed free higher education and affordable housing, and then created a huge economic and environmental mess for everyone else to clean up.

Then there are the millennials – folks born between the early '80s and mid-'90s. The charges against them are that they’ve killed off everything from mayonnaise to fabric conditioner, and spend their money away on avocado on toast and oatmeal lattes instead of saving up for what's important in life.

Generation X is sitting largely forgotten in the middle, and Generation Z, the youngsters raised on social media, are just entering the real world.

To some extent, a level of friction between the cohorts is to be expected. "We work together really well in groups,” said Catherine Loveday, professor of psychology at Westminster University, UK. "We are more protective and more supportive towards people in our in-group and we will do a lot to help them."

"The downside is that when we instinctively see someone as being part of an out-group, we tend to not be so supportive towards them."

5h0gKur4C4ndl agrees. "Gaps are inevitable since everyone has their own preferences and needs," the Redditor added.

"If there will ever be something that will allow generations to finally close them, it will likely be because there is something so meaningful, it changes the whole world."

To begin, however, we could at least try and see each other's best attributes and pick up on our similarities instead of antagonizing everyone we don't agree with.