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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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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I mean, like, when the Boomers were teens and coming up that was a "generational shift", one of the first ones that mass media and pop culture recorded in fact "Holy shit why are the teens so full of themselves all of a sudden, I thought teens were docile and disaffected"
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Every generation has one defining terrible creative work that embodies all their worst qualities. St. Elmo's Fire, Reality Bites, Garden State...
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