(That's what "Silent Generation" refers to, it was their version of saying the same thing as "Gen X" Sandwiched between the Greatest Generation who fought WWII and the Boomers who protested Vietnam, no one remembers them)
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I mentioned Mrs Maisel just for convenience but this is totally a thing on that show, Joel Maisel being a child when WWII and the Holocaust happened and feeling like this useless afterthought in the wake of history His fake cousin the war hero
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Same with Butterscotch Horseman's lifelong inferiority complex toward his deceased older brother-in-law Crackerjack (I can't believe my generation's clearest archetype of the frustrated self-loathing of the Kerouac era is an anthropomorphic horse)
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The difference between the Silent Gen and the Boomers is the difference between being the self-aggrandizing "Greatest Generation" war hero's kid brother vs being his son and heir Same as the difference between Gen X and Millennials' relationship to the Boomers
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Yeah, my parents were both born during World War 2 and culturally and in ethos they're much closer to early Boomers than the rest of the Silent Generation.
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People born in the early 80s who remember playing Oregon Trail on Apple II computers when they were in school
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IMO Buttgieg is too old to be millennial. That generation should be 1985-2000.
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