Enjoy.
Marie
In other words, I'm stuck between the aging boomers and there brats?? I kind of prefer the Reagan Generation myself.
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I was born in 1961 and I turned out OK. I scored 1170 on the SAT and graduated college with an engineering degree. I am now married with 1 daughter just graduating high school.
This is the most longwinded article I've ever read...
Yup, The Clintonista generation of swine needs to be held accountable for their decades of self-serving political transgressions. How 'bout: no social security payments unless you served in the armed forces.
Born in 1961 bump.
These two also wrote a number of interesting books on generations. "13th Gen" for Gen Reagan (as we FReepers like to call ourselves) and "Generations". Both are pretty interesting.
I think they have a few other books on the subject.
qam1 - probably a good post for a Gen X ping.
Not that I actually remember these from at the time...
Boomers look to values--the redemptive if painful resurrection of what Michael Lerner, the editor of the progressive magazine Tikkun, calls a "Politics of Meaning."
Which gave us a stained Oval Office, 'Senator Hillary!', 3000 Americans dead on our own soil and a World War.
They killed Kenny.
Those bastards...
"Crasher" Ping
"Old Cracker posted a vanity tonight about the hopelessness of my Generation. (20-30's) I think that the above article, while old, does a much better job of defining this generation than I ever could. It's long, but powerful and well worth the read"
Was that in addition to Old Crackhead's anti-Southpark screed?
"Old Cracker posted a vanity tonight about the hopelessness of my Generation. (20-30's) I think that the above article, while old, does a much better job of defining this generation than I ever could. It's long, but powerful and well worth the read"
Was that in addition to Old Crackhead's anti-Southpark screed?
Now look again--and notice a countermood popping up in college towns, in big cities, on Fox and cable TV, and in various ethnic side currents. It's a tone of physical frenzy and spiritual numbness, a revelry of pop, a pursuit of high-tech, guiltless fun. It's a carnival culture featuring the tangible bottom lines of life--money, bodies, and brains--and the wordless deals with which one can be traded for another. A generation weaned on minimal expectations and gifted in the game of life is now avoiding meaning in a cumbersome society that, as they see it, offers them little.
Empirically that is utterly unhelpful. Post-Sept. 11, it sounds even sillier.
My sister was born in 1960, and my younger sib and I (who were born in 68 and 70 and consider ourselves "Generation Reagan") always called her "Backwash of the Hippies". That used to make her really angry. She's not really "like" my sib and I from a values and work ethic standpoint, though we were all raised in the same home with the same parents. She's very socially conservative and not a fiscal liberal, exactly, but she's very "Earth Mother" type.
for later