Note that the power to name ourselves was never a power Millennials got (coined 1987, before many of us were born) or for that matter Gen-X or Boomers... https://twitter.com/jonesieman/status/955889990726283264 …
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(Maybe the problem is that generational thinking is always the old overdetermining the trajectory of the young)
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Replying to @DLind
Generations don't exist. It's dumb astrology we've decided means something.
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Replying to @willwilkinson @DLind
There is a different cultural cohort for an year. If we insist on arbirary twenty year groupings, it's your birthday plus and minus ten years.
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Like all periodizations, generations are fluid & debatable, but there is in fact such a thing as a shared set of experiences -- coming of age in a great war or depression.
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Of course. But the idea that people born in 1962 share much with people born in 1981, just because they fall within an arbitray twenty-year span, is totally moronic.
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Agree on that. Might be better to have long & short generations tied to historical events.
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