Baby Boomers vs. Generation X vs. Millennials

I was part of the late boomer ‘me generation’, we were considered spoiled and overly self confident by previous generations. hearing that at the time didn’t bother me

the zoomers today are also spolied and overly self confident, but in a different way. they are more socially conscious and seem altogether more advanced to me

more to the point, perhaps, is how each generation is compelled to surrender to capital in its own way

30 years ago my college tuition was almost feasible, particularly if i spent the first year of it as an rotc midshipman (hoo rah)

a diploma -- which signals class far more clearly than potential -- is much pricier today

mating exploded almost instantly

mb I just don't know enough boomers but all the most retrograde individuals in my life are self-satisfied gen xers

Look me in the eye and tell me, that I'm self-satisfied. Hey, are you self-satisfied?

i feel like millennials are old and exhausted before their time, all too willing to hand the zeitgeist to zoomers

they seem more qualified tbqh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzGnX-MbYE4

treeship getting all introspective, shocker

getting?

(front) the un-introspected life is not worth living

(reverse) lottery: 2 - 12 -14- 19 - 28 - 31 - 40

The time has come to say fair's fair
To pay the rent, to pay our share
The time has come, a fact's a fact
It belongs to them, let's give it back

how can we dance when the babies are booming
how can we sleep while the zoomers are looming

i feel like millennials are old and exhausted before their time, all too willing to hand the zeitgeist to zoomers

― treeship., Tuesday, May 5, 2020 2:36 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i'm a millenial right on the cusp of gen x and i feel ancient tbqh

please feel free to strangle anyone who chirps brightly, "age is just a number". put it on my tab.

that's where generations come into play, because a 40 year old might understand a lot of a 28 year old's experiences, but a 60 year old to a 28 year old, nah

don’t think that’s true at all

I'm at the same shows as the 28 year olds and don't see any 60 year olds man

don’t think relating between generations is about shows

Shows: what, you? No

my neighborhood has turned over a bit but is still disproportionately people in their 30s/40s now

I'm thinking of the nextdoor posters from nearby areas who complain about their homes not appreciating compared to other neighborhoods or their blocks having issues with kids and thinking, yeah, demographics changed and your peers moved to other neighborhoods or the suburbs. but it's evidence that you have a demographic cohort, and you no longer live among them. not your fault, not theirs, but the houses are less-maintained and populated by younger people with even younger kids making comparably less money than your peers who moved :/

that's where generations come into play, because a 40 year old might understand a lot of a 28 year old's experiences, but a 60 year old to a 28 year old, nah

Is that really generations in the demographic sense or just commonalities between ppl are are closer in age? Like would a 2020 60 yr old time traveling boomer relate to a 28 yr old boomer in 1970 as much as they'd relate to a 60 yr old in 1970? Idk depends.

generations are.. made of people.. who age

Thanks siri

I mean, they might bond over having gone to the same Grateful Dead show and then one would ask wtf a smartphone was

xp otm

and a 60 year old in 1970 would have a shitload more grandkids, demographically

Ya. Some things are specific to eras and some things are specific to stages of life. Seems like the 2 get conflated.

fuck you mh

seems more likely to me that a 28 year old might understand a lot of a 40 year old's experiences, but a 28 year old to a 60 year old, nah.

my memories of my twenties have, understandably faded somewhat in the face of further decades of urgent, often difficult struggles, but on the whole it remains the decade where my entire adulthood was formed and many of my most important days were lived out -- compared to which, whatever popular culture was doing at the time pales to insignificance.

the problems I faced and my attempts at solutions are what really mattered. if you think that the problems of people in their twenties today are of a completely different quality than in the 1970s, well, that is what each generation thinks to some extent. it wasn't as different to those in their midst.

any given any year old can understand or not understand anything

that this mode of thought continues as a thinkpoint distresses me

deems, you're not far removed from 28, now, aren't you? sorry if I stepped on your toes there. you seem like an understanding sort of fellow. I was after speaking in a general way.

not at all

im giving out to mh tbh

tbph im not sure i even read the posts under the mh post i found objectionable

this happens a lot

i think it means i overtalked ye soz folks

generations aren't much use when employed on the level of individuals, it's a macro big picture thing. any given 60yo might be sympathetic to the economic plight of 25yos but that overlooks how the dynamics work on the big scale

yes

this is a good thing

due to the protests i've recently been inundated with social media posts from 32-45 year olds exalting "gen z" and applying to them an essentialist laundry list of cartoonish personality traits and i don't think i can take another 10 years of this. it's just gonna keep happening over and over and over again, the same exact way and i don't want to be alive for it. at a certain point the exaltation becomes fetishistic, creepy - millennials applying traits that were bombastically attributed to them 5 years ago in a slightly more bombastic and self-assured manner. turns out zoomers are socially anxious (but it's funny), confrontational, woke, and they tip well - these have nothing to do with age, this is just how the standard twitter user with a commissioned fanart avi of themselves wants to be seen. stop projecting your idealized identity onto teenagers you weirdos! none of this is real you're just contributing to social media's drive to flatten humanity into a more flippable pancake

booming post

fuck, I should have said zooming

lol

due to the protests i've recently been inundated with social media posts from 32-45 year olds exalting "gen z" and applying to them an essentialist laundry list of cartoonish personality traits and i don't think i can take another 10 years of this. it's just gonna keep happening over and over and over again, the same exact way and i don't want to be alive for it. at a certain point the exaltation becomes fetishistic, creepy - millennials applying traits that were bombastically attributed to them 5 years ago in a slightly more bombastic and self-assured manner. turns out zoomers are socially anxious (but it's funny), confrontational, woke, and they tip well - these have nothing to do with age, this is just how the standard twitter user with a commissioned fanart avi of themselves wants to be seen. stop projecting your idealized identity onto teenagers you weirdos! none of this is real you're just contributing to social media's drive to flatten humanity into a more flippable pancake

― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Saturday, June 13, 2020 4:33 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

to be fair gen x did it to millennials first

and the zoomers will do it to the yoomers/xoomers/xillennials/zilent generation/generation pepsi/whatever we settle on in 8-10 years

what percentage of these posts include the line "the kids are alright"?

(17 year old e-girl makes a tik tok about communism)

35 year old leftist professor in bushwick: Methinks the kids are alright :) haha anybody know this girls age?

— Patrick (@lunch_enjoyer) October 31, 2019

Zoomer fetishism is weird because they’re also
heavily influenced by Nazi twitch gamers.

that doesn't represent the zoomers I know

a whole thread about disparaging people who aren't your age

the zoomers you know don't represent the zoomers you don't know

agree, but

I guess we're all thinking about general statements, I'm included