Judging each generation: socially, economically, culturally

[Doctor Phibes]

I’ve always been amused by the fact that Billy Idol is a boomer

Admittedly, I’m very easily amused

[Aqua Letifer]

@Axtremus said in Judging each generation: socially, economically, culturally:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Judging each generation: socially, economically, culturally:

@Axtremus said in Judging each generation: socially, economically, culturally:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Judging each generation: socially, economically, culturally:

Gen X
Socially: Meh. Didn't do nothing, didn't do a lot. Didn't screw things up too badly.
Economically: Took them a long-ass time to get started, but they got into the fold just like everybody else.
Culturally: Hangout sitcoms, D&D, new kinds of Sci-Fi, made video games the medium it is today. They did their part.

Gen X gave you the commercial Internet, which arguably does quite a number on all things social, economic, and cultural.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the other most major contributors to the internet were Boomers, not Gen X. Ask Copper.

I wrote the “commercial Internet”, that comes after the underlying technology has been invented by the likes of Cerf, Khan, and Benners-Lee. Look up Jerry Yang, Larry Page, Sergei Brin, Jeff Bezos, Jack Dorsey, et al.

I'll look them up once you prove you know how to have an actual discussion.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Judging each generation: socially, economically, culturally:

I’ve always been amused by the fact that Billy Idol is a boomer

Admittedly, I’m very easily amused

His new single is actually pretty dope.

[Rainman]

Outstanding, Aqua!
I'm curious: were you being reflective when you wrote it, or pissed off?

[Aqua Letifer]

@Rainman said in Judging each generation: socially, economically, culturally:

Outstanding, Aqua!
I'm curious: were you being reflective when you wrote it, or pissed off?

Little of both.

Usually when people speak of generations, it's in the context to one-liners. Boomers are boomers because they prefer cable to streaming. Millennials are millennials because they buy fair-trade.

That level of analysis is pretty low-resolution, so I thought it'd be a good mental exercise to try to flesh things out a little more. Some things about that list do indeed piss me off.

[Doctor Phibes]

I was born in 1963, but I self-identify as Gen X, since all my friends and wife are. I'd rather be a millennial, but even I can see that would be pushing it.

[Jolly]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Judging each generation: socially, economically, culturally:

I was born in 1963, but I self-identify as Gen X, since all my friends and wife are. I'd rather be a millennial, but even I can see that would be pushing it.

Okay, boomer.

[Jolly]

Aqua's list is good, but as with any generalization, it's a 50,000 foot view.

Wonder how much overlap exists?

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Judging each generation: socially, economically, culturally:

Wonder how much overlap exists?

That was kind of my point - all the cultural stuff for Gen-x'er's is pretty much exactly what I do. And it certainly took me a long-ass time to get started. Now I'm having a little rest. I know people my age who definitely fit the boomer description, but I know a fair few who don't. You're only as old...

And nobody has ever referred to me as having my head remotely near a grindstone.

[Horace]

I’ve devoted my life to helping others. Not sure which generation that would put me in.