To what extent do you think you fit in/identify w/your generation?
I straddle the line between fitting the stereotype and heavily relating to this:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61AMJNM5BWL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
Really, though, I don't know that any of this generational labeling is particularly meaningful in anything but the broadest sense (e.g. there are a lot of boomers, generation "text" or whatevs is probably gonna be more tech-savvy). If you think you've adequately summed up and/or are the voice of a particular generation, you're probably doing it wrong.
― Vaginal Meshes Of The Afternoon (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
it occurs to me that the easiest way to read the top row is 'old people are racist'
xp
― thomp, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
instead of being concerned with generations of the past I think we should think about generations of the future
for example:the spacefaring generationthe exoplanet terraforming generation
― dayo, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, i think the graph is interesting but i think that the goalposts are pretty arbitrary: they're assuming the weight of political consciousness falls the same way upon someone who turns eighteen the day of the new frontier speech as it does someone who turns eighteen the day they join a march yelling 'hey hey lbj etc'
― thomp, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
i voted millenials haha suck it millenials
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
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'
― thomp, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
oy, spot the error
― thomp, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://workexposed.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/gen-y-10-charachteristics.jpg
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
who told them about our secret language
millenials seems the least skeptical of authority of anyone since them who fought in the great wars
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://leftoutside.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/us-population-pyramid.jpg
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
haha people who are zero whats up w/them
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
dayo, your hopes for the future are awfully sanguine. First there's going to be the drone gang war generation
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
generation Z (zero)
― max, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
generation waterworld
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
voted for millenials because i hope for my son's sake that his generation is slightly less insufferable than the current young adult crowd
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
considering voting for gen z because they are the spawn of gen x
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
I'm in that gray zone between X and Y and can't imagine anyone worse that my peers
― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno man, do you think the kids 5 or 10 or 15 years younger than us are cooler? semi-serious question.
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
graph of shitty NYT op-ed writers by generation
thomas friedman (b. 1953) - baby boomerross douthat (b. 1979) - gen Xdavid brooks (b. 1961) - gen Xmaureen dowd (b. 1952) - baby boomer
some other writers
jonah goldberg (b. 1969) - gen Xkathleen parker (b. 1951) - baby boomerjennifer rubin (b. 1968) - gen Xkathryn jean lopez (b. 1976) - gen X
<drops mic>
― Mordy, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.people-press.org/files/2011/11/11-3-11-45.png
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
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, 1 May 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
they just blink once for yes, twice for no
― Mordy, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
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
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
― 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!
― sarahell, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
lol silent generation is such a mean name
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
my dad always refers to his generation as war babies
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
(xp to iatee) all that graph really says is that Gen Xers bought a ton of stupid mortgages
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
that's the only thing I wanted it to say
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
well then, success
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
i bought zero stupid mortgages but then i dont identify as genX im my own generation u cant define me
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
i only like pavement i dont love them
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
I bought a stupid mortgage and Kurt Cobain is still dead!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
you didn't think that would resurrect him?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
I bought zero stupid mortgages because I did a ton of research before signing any papers
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
hah i feel like im more down w/the millenials even tho i voted them the worst
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
mordy, iatee, lorax, frogbs
a special generation with a special acronym
― Ms Tum-Bla-Wi-Tee (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
is lorax a millennial?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
he is now
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
he's not one of ours, that's for sure
― sarahell, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
i always through i was too young for x, too old for y
― goole, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
I came of age in 1999, fuck all yr generations
― mh, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link