Baby Boomers vs. Generation X vs. Millennials

This would be a whole lot easier if everybody was born in clumps. Like in 1945, someone decided: let's all fuck for a year and we'll have a generation of kids who all share a common experience. Then we'll take a breather to raise those kids so that they all have the same values, experiences, and cultural touchstones.

Okay, that went great. Now it's 1965, let's make another bunch. These ones will be totally tubular.

Hmmm. 1985. Where were we? Oh yeah, reproduction. Quick, everybody make some babies.

Instead, what we have is a continuous stream of births. Alas.

http://www.clickhole.com/article/no-coincidence-9-months-after-fuck-day-first-wave--4234

I don't really know any teenagers atm but I follow a few on twitter as an anthropological experiment, and I think I like this gen of highschoolers. they remind me much more of my gen than do the millennials.

I just bought two Wharton collections from Library of America and I think that book is included in the second one - can't wait!

dang there are kids in high school who weren't alive on 9/11

I just bought two Wharton collections from Library of America and I think that book is included in the second one - can't wait!

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱),

that's where I read it. The Mother's Recompense is better.

I just bought two Wharton collections from Library of America and I think that book is included in the second one - can't wait!

If The Bunner Sisters is in there, go straight to that one, wow.

Twilight Sleep not just bad but really different from the good stuff; to the point it was literally hard for me to get my head around the fact that the same person wrote it.

In good Wharton, by the way, generational differences are certainly an issue but I think the view from middle age is less "kids today are terrible let us explain to them how they should be" than "our time is done, we shall now graciously and regretfully fade into the expensive wallpaper"

Wharton's heroine in Summer is a teenage unwed mother

i am totally Generation Wharton

Boy, Gen X's stock couldn't be much lower these days (b. 1968)...we truly are the Jan Brady of this bunch

i am seeing more and more pieces about how my generation's anxiousness and fragility is secretly manipulative, a way for us to get our way.

― Treeship, Monday, 2 May 2016 13:22 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Starting to believe this btw

lol

Boy, Gen X's stock couldn't be much lower these days

I dunno, our attitude is described as "conditional loyalty" which I think far the most sensible stance out of all those depicted

but then I would (b.1971, have purchased Zima)

well at least you never boomed a baby

Time to drown my Gen X sorrows in OK Cola

had a millennial written Twilight Sleep she'd have called it Twilight: Sleep.

i think of millenials as 'people who got fucked over economically and are really tight with their moms'
gen x as...ted rall basically?
there's some people in there who hate the carter administration because gas lines
and boomers think they invented everything

I am poorly educated

or...
...millenials unlock mountain dew badges through phone things
...gen x hated marketing but the ads for mountain dew were a tongue-in-cheek mockery of how bad ads are
...and boomers had mountain dew ads with an actual fucking hillbilly

or...
...millenials make dank memes for their youngs tumblr gif thing
...gen x got in flame wars on usenet
...everyone before that your life is unfathomable bcz no internet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm_LmlFeNnM

i wish i was a racecar driver who enjoyed the undying loyalty of wanda. baby boomers had all the luck .

A little history lesson for you millennials who might not be aware that a lot of the slang you use today originated from gen x-ers.

http://hoaxes.org/images/hoaxarchive/1992grungespeak01.jpg

my own personal marker for Millennials is that they can't have actual, living memories of the 80s.

― ryan, Monday, May 2, 2016 3:22 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what's the cutoff for millennials? i was born in '82 and i remember most things from age 2-3 on up pretty well

idk, i think millennials were born in the mid-late 80s and came of age in the 00s and very early 10s. early 80s seems like a gray zone generationally. seems more like Gen X to me

xpost Gen X is the Jan Brady of the bunch because they're the most underpopulated of the three by far

it used to be defined as mid-80s, newer defs stick it in some wobbly 1980-1985 beginning age

i'm a highlander

X gonna give it to ya

...gen x got in flame wars on usenet

lol yes this

It doesn't seem polite to vote for my own generation, but it doesn't seem right to vote against myself either. I think I will abstain. Yes, that's the ticket!

Typical generational apathy and indecision

so, are we voting for favorite, or most hated?

same thing, in this case..

I read a really bad late novel by Edith Wharton (Twilight Sleep, 1927) which is 100% on the theme of "this younger generation of people is feckless and useless, what will a world in their incapable hands be like"

It's actually the other way round in some of Henry Green's post war novels: like, here we are (the younger generation) having to struggle all the hours God sends, doing crappy office jobs, having to put up with rationing etc when you lot (the older generation) got to enjoy yourselves drinking and dancing and having sex with one another in the 20s and 30s.

as a millennial I'd like to officially disavow the generation that refers to Larry Graham as "Drake's uncle"

http://www.factmag.com/2016/05/16/drakes-uncle-leads-tributes-at-prince-memorial-service-in-minneapolis/

everybody check out this song it is PERFECT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpE1Pa8vvI

i tried to sit through it, had to turn audio off quick, then i tried just reading it, and i skimmed and got to the participation trophy line and i was just reminded how fucked up capitalism is for the 15th time today

who is micah tyler and why is he cloning himself so much and also why does he wear so many hats

i don't know but people keep posting it on facebook. a group of 3-4 people keep posting parody videos about millennials and the guy who hates vegans and people who do yoga

some ppl just hella thirsty for the approval of their shitty elders man

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Lines up with board demographics.

haha eff baby boomers

Hey! I resemble that remark!

Some days, I just like to sit back and watch my generation march briskly into oblivion. We are gonna the meanest and the crankiest. Can't wait.

http://i.imgur.com/TZihEZg.png

millennials do love their boycotting too much. that said i'll bet the dude in the band cheryl mentioned probably sucks and deserves it.

I don't know how Snapchat is supposed to work. The last new band I got into was Spoon. But damn, watching the Pokemon Go explosion fire up my peers like it was Elvis shaking his pelvis on Milton Berle made me realize that sun has already set on the Generation Xpire.

intimate sing-a-long with a bunch of washed up gen-x'ers sounds like an ok time, or more likely, a slice of hell on earth

fwiw, i was once in a lesbian group where one of the ladies was a cop. she said she got a _lot_ of hatred from queer people. personally i'm more opposed to the oppressive institution of policing than every single individual cop, but apparently a lot of gay people treat gay cops like shit.

my cousin is a cop and I'm very embarrassed about it. shit happens I guess

i'm more opposed to the oppressive institution of policing than every single individual cop

Agree but the way the oppressive institution exerts its power is through individuals so in real life it's pretty impossible to keep those separate.

The only way the institution really changes is if a wider range of people apply to become cops, and I guess you can take the pessimistic view that it doesn't matter, anyone who puts on the uniform becomes absorbed into the unchangeable institution, but I do not take the pessimistic view.

Or you can become an editor, cinematographer, casting director, prop maker… anything, really.

^^This. I just got back from a memorial for a mentor of mine who founded a film program at the CC I used to work at. It's highly likely that a substantial portion of any crew working productions in Houston in the past 20 years, from studio features and series down to commercials airing global to local, were trained in his academy.

Not to mention all the camera and sound people who work sporting events, big concerts, megachurches etc.

pretty well documented that 'good' reform-minded cops (in the NYPD, at the very least) are subject to the whole suppressive person package, up to and including 'accidental' death

reforming a gang from the bottom up is practically impossible

Xp akm did you read D Bond-Graham’s book about the Oakland PD? … I do not doubt there are worse police departments in the US, but ours (OPD) is historically awful and incompetent, which might make it worse than LAPD as a potential employee? Idk…

Forensic accounting usually requires an accounting degree or at least a lot of coursework in accounting from when I looked into it … there were multiple levels of prerequisites before they’d let you take the forensic accounting class ime

i think we need more english grads as cops and more cops as computer programmers and fewer philosophers as baristas

A journeyman’s ticket in a trade and 10 years’ experience on the jobsite before you’re allowed to start studying philosophy.

And that’s another part of the whole cost of education issue! Degree inflation. Probably millennial and younger are most effected, but genx and even boomers have been too… older people who change careers or move to other states, in some cases.

Like, getting needs based scholarships and grants for undergrad was possible (not saying everyone got all they needed) … tax credits are also fairly significant… but the increasing requirements of graduate degrees (Masters, MFA, MBA etc) for employment combined with next to no grant/scholarship assistance, only loans… I feel like a lot of recent labor organizing, specifically in the arts and academia, is spurred by all the debt the workers incurred to get these jobs that do little to repay the debt

I used to work at a museum for $18/hr… but I had no student debt. Someone who has $100k of student debt and is working for those wages (increased a bit since i left)… fuck yea they’re going to unionize and demand better pay

i think i am gonna keep talking about the police thing but i'm gonna do it over here:

Abolish the Police