“Disco gen rejected the hippie gen, which was lamented in liberal college papers at the time.”
Yay! This is something never brought up, and I thank you.
It’s 1 of the big problems with putting all those people under “Baby Boomer” umbrella - they were totally different.
I hate hippies and the ‘60s culture (which to this day they still can’t stop patting themselves on the back). Personally I see the ‘60s as the real fashion disasters, not to mention disaster in just about everything else. And I DO mean everything.
“It’s 1 of the big problems with putting all those people under ‘Baby Boomer’ umbrella - they were totally different.”
Yes, the MSM, historians, etc. like when discussing generations to treat whole, big 20 year chunks of babies as the same, forgetting that people are born all the time, and not during discreet units of time. I can sympathize, in that there are shared experiences based on age and too much information swirling around not to cut corners when dreaming up theories. But such block divisions are arbitrary and often unuseful.
Take me, for instance. My parents were Baby Boomers, no doubt, having been born in ‘47 and ‘51, respectively, and living through rock ‘n’ roll, the moon landing, Vietnam, etc., which by definition makes me a Gen-X-er. In addition to frustration at the laziness of recent generation naming—letters, seriously? What happens when you get to Z?—they, or my dad at least, had me and my siblings rather late. So I barely remember the Berlin Wall coming down or Grunge rock ruling the airwaves, and have little to no nostalgia for most 80s music, movies, or tv before ‘87 at the earliest, except stuff like Thriller or Star Wars which remained popular for decades.
Just saying, there’s always more to generations than they let on. Very seldom will anyone bother to mention that the flower children who supposedly ended the war, brought racial harmony, and opened minds to the Age of Aquarius are around the same age, or perhaps were the very same people, who snorted coke in polyester next to lava lamps with Donna Summer records blaring.