Baby Boomers vs. Generation X vs. Millennials

as a millennial born in the nineties, i learned a lot from VH1's I Love the 80's.

I first heard "Billie Jean" and "Blue Monday" as MIDI files in a freeware Pac-Man clone for Windows 95

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

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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 think it's wasted but in hindsight there are so many other things that I could/should have done that would have set me up much better in the long run. Considering that money has been a major source of stress for me my entire adult life, I can't help but think it might have been wiser to pursue a more practical degree. I never wanted to teach though now I think I prob should have. Idk. I'm glad you're happy you did it I just know that I (and several friends in similar situations) would have been a lot better off going down a more technical or career specific route.

Map there are some cool cops out there and you would be one of them, I say go for it why not

I had sex with one of them.

Lol

One of my classmates in an alternative processes photography class was a film major, she and her husband had run up $20k in debt without yet completing her final project. At the time I was thinking about taking the intro film classes and seeing where it went but talking with her put that idea to bed immediately.

xps sorry if that sound grumpy or aggressive ENBB. I feel quite defensive about it tbh - because I loved it so much, because I hate what's happening to the liberal arts in this shitty country and how education is becoming purely about how we can make students into tiny profit machines. Which is to say, unfortunately, you're broadly right.

I'm on the 'map, don't become a cop' side I think. Retrain as a teacher. You'd be awesome.

Clearly, law enforcement could be recruiting much, much better people. On the other hand, much, much better people are typically not drawn to law enforcement as a career. I say "typically," with no offense intended to map; however, I wonder if even the people who aren't already disposed to being authoritarian bully boys are eventually ground down by the nature and structure of policing.

Xpost - not at all, I totally understand. It's incredibly disappointing.

I haven't interacted with many cops on a personal level but when working with Black and Latino cops working as off-duty security - people who didn't seem law and order reactionary bullies by nature - it seemed like the camaraderie of the group does much of the work in making authoritarianism more acceptable. The other cops are your teammates, your bosses are constantly making you feel like victims and potentially at risk 24/7 from people outside the team.

When I applied for colleges, I was hoping for maximum financial aid and possibly scholarships - because of that, I was going to pay roughly the same wherever I went, so applied to the places that attracted me most. If that sounds like B’s situation, she could do the same?

Friends’ burgeoning filmmaker kid is going to my old college which now has an amazing film department 18yo me might’ve gravitated towards (or might’ve been terrified of having to compete with nepos to get a place on the course). My college educated plenty of successful filmmakers/showrunners before the programme became what it is today, many of whom were NOT producers’ children or wealthy to begin with. There are so many applied careers that originate in film studies; not everyone winds up a director because there are thousands of other jobs a film grad can do.

You can always pivot from a film degree to making horny vampire music like Boy Harsher.

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

Best boy

I studied english and I have had a lucrative enough 20+ year career in tech so I dismiss these "don't study english" canards. in fact I'd gather that it may be harder to land a job with a CS degree right now because you are competing against people with deeper career experience, a trillion other recent CS grads, and the desire to ship those jobs out of the US to keep costs low. people should study what they enjoy in college, I think.