Baby Boomers vs. Generation X vs. Millennials

Can we make an astrology board i could get into it

one of my fave memes is "roommate cleans negative energy with sage while you clean rest of the apartment" and the person cleaning the rest of the apartment is Virgo or Capricorn. Capricorns are rad too!

I found astrology intriguing when I was a child but if anyone tried to talk to me about my sign rn I would probably curse at them

TBF I am probably not the best representative of common Virgo traits because I'm basically a walking disaster in many ways (gen x represent!).

I fucking hate all of you

― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:44 AM (twenty-one minutes ago)

typical Aries

TBF I am probably not the best representative of common Virgo traits because I'm basically a walking disaster in many ways

It's likely that you have some other planets that are badly aspected w/Virgo ... which creates inner conflict. Also the fact that you consider yourself a "walking disaster" because you feel like you are not living up to some standards or other, is very much a Virgo trait

Culture obv changed during the 'Boomer' years as much as it did between the 'Boomer' and 'X' years. And the outside influences on people of different races, classes, genders, etc within a cohort are going to be very different, for a start.

Sometimes there are big jumps or disruptions in culture that allow you to see a clear before-and-after picture though. The problem is these moments don't often coincide with one other and that's why breaking gens down by particular years is so iffy. And this kind of theory is obviously a macro kind of thing that you can't look at on a micro level. Yeah, everyone is different; people even go through their own personal evolutions.

Like, the basic theory seems to have been that 'seasons of history' occur in a fixed cyclical pattern and that a 'generation' who passes through a 'season of life' during one of these historical seasons is going to have a number of characteristics, values, and behaviours in common. xp to self

Sometimes there are big jumps or disruptions in culture that allow you to see a clear before-and-after picture though.

Yeah, that's true that e.g. people who go through a world war or depression together may have some major shared life-changing experience but I don't think there's enough like this to support the idea of 'Generation X', 'Millennials', and a generation that is being defined before it even has much life experience.

Anyway, I should read the whole book so I can hate it more authoritatively.

Waste of time, you’re probably guessing what it says just fine.

https://sayingimages.com/wp-content/uploads/capricorns-how-you-see-yourself-how-others-see-you-capricorn-meme.jpg

https://78.media.tumblr.com/a30133f9ffc02bfb9f7839ddddfbee00/tumblr_pbbd22Z3m01xxu1gfo1_640.jpg

xxxp Agree with that... I mean I've seen major lifestyle changes due to internet & mobile phones etc. but it's debatable how much effect all that's really had on people and of course more than one generation has had to deal with it.

anyway, Capricorns are obv badasses

see this is a perfect example of being portrayed as a fucking dick

"please believe in this thing we made up, also we hate you"

it is definitely true that no generation has learned different lessons from the same event because it happened when they were in daycare at the time, instead of watching the same event happen as they got ready to start their first full-time job or go off to college.

we have been at war in Afghanistan for 17 years. this has had no substantially different effect on people whether they were born in 1980 or born in 2000. totally provable statement.

Obama would totally be the same person if he had been born during the 1930s. Makes no difference. People are all different and also the same! Shrug a lot and wave your hands around at the uselessness of trying to model anything with less than absolute precision.

But wait so what if Obama had been born with a Kuato, what if that

that makes him a gemini right? that makes the most sense

i'm upper mississippi and i'm on the go
my zodiac sign is the virgo

xxp - so many ilxors adore "angry goat on roof"

also the newspaper memes are all kinda like that

the uselessness of trying to model anything with less than absolute precision.

The difficulty is not that the models derived do not apply broadly to tens of millions of people in aggregate, but that they are often presented as saying something valuable about individuals within that aggregate. A statement such as 'Gen Xers want this, hate that, or view this other thing with suspicion' is so ill-formed that it is either without useful content or else simply a falsehood, depending on how you interpret it. A statement such as Gen Xers are 15% more likely than other cohorts to say they want this, hate that, or view this other thing with suspicion, has some value.

generations and astrology are both horseshit y'all fyi lol

TBF, so are most other means by which we aspire to condense the sum of a person or a people.

I am undescribible.

this is a board in which we are trying to settle on the exact definition of a "New Jersey," let people have their memes

New Jersey is a Virgo too :)

generational differences can include things like "before and after the polio vaccine," but I can understand how that might seem abstract to most people here

astrology is closest to the longitudinal "hey everybody acts like this if you watch them long enough" Saturn's Return dumbassery

but yes latitude and longitude same thing shrug lol

they're both just lines right

don't try to tell me any different i don't have time for your explanation i'm a goddamn moon in aries you son of a gun

okay so here's another mean meme

https://78.media.tumblr.com/04f6c3734e17535b66071d104422a7c1/tumblr_p5givgAp0T1x95nrqo1_1280.jpg

Slippery When Wet is a Leo just looked it up

The version of generational differences that (I think?) you're describing makes enough sense (I think?) if I read through the sarcasm but that's not really what I understand 'generational theory' to be. xp to Tombot

Or if it is, that's not what I take issue with.

that's true that e.g. people who go through a world war or depression together may have some major shared life-changing experience but I don't think there's enough like this to support the idea of 'Generation X', 'Millennials', and a generation that is being defined before it even has much life experience.

here's one for tauruses (notice free space in middle is food)

http://geekxgirls.com/images/_articles/zodiac-bingo-02.jpg

i'm upper mississippi and i'm on the go
my zodiac sign is the virgo

I respect ums' commitment to bringing hip hop back to its roots

what sign amongst us does not appreciate a robe, i ask

good ass eyebrows?

assbrows?

I recently interviewed a 19 year old who told me "I am an old soul, so I tend to identify with millennials."

— Liam Stack (@liamstack) September 14, 2018

oooooooof

👌

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=entVpj_IT6M

are people born in 1998 really self-identifying as millennials/gen-y'ers these days? is this the future Ella O'Connor fought and died to secure?

it's a good song (especially by youtube musician standards) though I don't think any of his concerns are unique to his generation except for the bit about climate change really hitting the fan

Does it still count as having millennial burnout if I've never come close to optimizing anything?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxdPH_VV4AAyp9N.jpg:small

oh well, whatever, nevermind

https://pics.me.me/boomers-yelling-at-millenials-for-toast-millennials-yelling-at-boomers-39502162.png

A mistrust of science isn’t new — it’s been around since science really started picking up steam, and the thought that it’s definitive of our age is just wrong. Noticing that we should be skeptical of the thought that we are going through some particularly new and baleful moment in the history of ideas. We’re not: we’re just retracing arguments that humans seem, perhaps just as a matter of temperament, to be inclined to trace. The contemporary leftist who responds to those who want to use, e.g. blockchains for social good by pointing out bitcoin’s ecological cost, or who responds cynically to data about how fewer people are living in extreme poverty thanks to capitalism by pointing out that, well, thanks to capitalism, in not so long, fewer people will be living full stop thanks to climate change can, I think, be viewed as giving voice to the same sort of anti-progress viewpoint as Rousseau. It didn’t take Derridean differance to enable people to wonder about the negative effects that progress entrains.

https://medium.com/@mittmattmutt/millennials-as-romantics-not-postmodernists-b678818d84ad

Hat tip michael B for the link

Obviously it’s a super pop, super surface level example of intellectual history, but I think it’s more accurate than, for instance, jordan peterson’s fuming over “postmodern neo-marxists.” There is some truth to the observation that so-called social justice warriors are more interested in perspectives than facts, but this isn’t a point against them. We live in a period of uncertainty—the irrationality of our society is impossible to overlook at this point and there aren’t “pragmatic” answers to things like climate change, only revolutionary ones. In these condtions it makes sense for people to turn to ideologies that from the outside might seem factional or non-constructive to older generations.

It’s not a coincidence that Diogenes is one of the heroes of Jenny Odell’s buzzworthy book about “resisting in place.”

every moment has its same profile