worst generation

i voted millenials haha suck it millenials

and i think the results for
'not yet eighteen when kennedy was shot'
'not yet eighteen during watergate'
'not yet eighteen during the iran hostage crisis'
'not yet eighteen when the berlin war fell'
'not yet eighteen for gulf war ii'
would probably confirm our biases just as effectively and yet they'd tell a pretty different story about 'generations'

oy, spot the error

http://workexposed.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/gen-y-10-charachteristics.jpg

who told them about our secret language

millenials seems the least skeptical of authority of anyone since them who fought in the great wars

People of Clemenza's generation do kind of interest me, those old enough to have soaked up the energy of the '60s and then experience the whiplash into the stupor of the '70s... perhaps it didn't actually feel like that in the moment but it certainly looks like that in (US-biased) retrospect.

The only time I remember that felt like a massive zeitgeist shift was around 1979-1981.

Side note: I seem to recall that when Douglas Coupland came out with the book Generation X the people in it were mostly born in the early 1960s, like Coupland himself. Somehow the Gen X boundary got shifted forward to 1965 and early '60s is now "late boomers." Which actually seems to make more sense to me.

http://leftoutside.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/us-population-pyramid.jpg

haha people who are zero whats up w/them

dayo, your hopes for the future are awfully sanguine. First there's going to be the drone gang war generation

generation Z (zero)

generation waterworld

voted for millenials because i hope for my son's sake that his generation is slightly less insufferable than the current young adult crowd

considering voting for gen z because they are the spawn of gen x

millenials seems the least skeptical of authority of anyone since them who fought in the great wars

I'm in that gray zone between X and Y and can't imagine anyone worse that my peers

i dunno man, do you think the kids 5 or 10 or 15 years younger than us are cooler? semi-serious question.

graph of shitty NYT op-ed writers by generation

thomas friedman (b. 1953) - baby boomer
ross douthat (b. 1979) - gen X
david brooks (b. 1961) - gen X
maureen dowd (b. 1952) - baby boomer

some other writers

jonah goldberg (b. 1969) - gen X
kathleen parker (b. 1951) - baby boomer
jennifer rubin (b. 1968) - gen X
kathryn jean lopez (b. 1976) - gen X

<drops mic>

I dunno man, that's the narrative but it seems like the Occupy movement was as millenial as it was any other generation.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, May 1, 2012 1:12 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there are literally thousands of millenials critical of the governments monetary policy, call in the paramilitaries

haha

http://www.people-press.org/files/2011/11/11-3-11-45.png

wow 64% of the silent generation is not very silent when it comes to answering poll questions

they just blink once for yes, twice for no

http://meyermktg.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/genx5.jpg

"we made it!! we're set for life!! I wish kurt cobain were around to see how far we've come..."

http://www.people-press.org/files/2011/11/11-3-11-61.png

wow 64% of the silent generation is not very silent when it comes to answering poll questions

― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Tuesday, May 1, 2012 10:37 AM (12 minutes ago)

awww you're talking about my parents here!

lol silent generation is such a mean name

my dad always refers to his generation as war babies

guess thats a lil narrower window

i don't think it's that mean, there are definitely plenty of times when i wish my mom were more silent.

(xp to iatee) all that graph really says is that Gen Xers bought a ton of stupid mortgages

that's the only thing I wanted it to say

well then, success

i bought zero stupid mortgages but then i dont identify as genX im my own generation u cant define me

i only like pavement i dont love them

i bouht zero stupid mortgages because i am not a sell-out like those other people who were born around the same time i was.

I bought a stupid mortgage and Kurt Cobain is still dead!

you didn't think that would resurrect him?

I bought zero stupid mortgages because I did a ton of research before signing any papers

not a hard rule, but all this bloody internecine generational conflict on ilx makes me realize that the posters i really like tend to be members of my generational cohort.

hah i feel like im more down w/the millenials even tho i voted them the worst

mordy, iatee, lorax, frogbs

a special generation with a special acronym

is lorax a millennial?

he is now

he's not one of ours, that's for sure

i always through i was too young for x, too old for y

I came of age in 1999, fuck all yr generations

http://i.imgur.com/Q5nvd.jpg

looks p old

and yes despite hearing for ten years about scott weiland milarepa fund swingin on the flippity flop, every measure shows generation x to be shockingly conservative

SHOCKINGLY

I feel bad for generational tweeners