Maybe I'm just very uniquely fixed on the ethics of naming culture but that was the ugliest and most concerning joke honestly It's like those kids have internalized all these Ross Douthat-esque ideas about respectability and the Biblical ideal of setting aside childish thingshttps://twitter.com/spacetwinks/status/1272185342293159937 …
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(But seriously the beatnik shit is a pretty sound argument for the whole generational cycle thing if you look into it, which most people our age haven't Like the Silent Generation totally are the Gen Xers to the Greatest Generation's Boomers On the Road is their Reality Bites)
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And hence the current resonance where the Zoomers seem to be consciously replicating the Xers' stance of "I'm a cynical nihilist, this grand drama -- WWII, Vietnam, 9/11 -- you older siblings think your lives were defined by is silly to me"
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